if anyone still watches it, St. Louis is featured on a new episode of House Hunters tonight on HGTV.
http://www.hgtv.com/house-hunters/opini ... index.html
http://www.hgtv.com/house-hunters/opini ... index.html
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VOTE for St. Louis to be one of the three cities Defiance premieres in! We aren't that far behind in the voting here: http://eventful.com/campaigns/defiance2013
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Look for parts of new episodes of "Sweetie Pie's" (OWN Network) to be shot in the Syndicate. A key cast member has just moved into one of the penthouses. Film crews were there yesterday shooting.
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Tried to vote, but got this rather well-worded error that prevented me from contributing:
My e-mail address is correct and I don't Facebook, so I don't have another way to vote.
It appears NYC and LA have pulled away, and Atlanta's lead is growing for the #3 spot:
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My e-mail address is correct and I don't Facebook, so I don't have another way to vote.
It appears NYC and LA have pulled away, and Atlanta's lead is growing for the #3 spot:
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1 New York City metro area 511 people
2 Los Angeles metro area 426 people
3 Atlanta metro area 297 people
4 Boston metro area 286 people
5 St. Louis metro area 267 people
6 Dallas / Fort Worth metro area 261 people
7 Chicago metro area 255 people
8 Washington DC metro area 254 people
9 Philadelphia metro area 249 people
10 Seattle metro area 204 people
^This needs to be sent to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Gail Pennington (gpennington@post-dispatch.com). I voted multiple times.
Maybe with the next update, they could put a blurb about the competition online.
Maybe with the next update, they could put a blurb about the competition online.
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We are less than 15 votes away from winning. If only a couple of us vote several times a day under different e-mail or facebook accounts, we can win this!
Just saw the Arch on a commercial for a show on the Science Channel called "What is That?"
First couple minutes of DEFIANCE is now online: http://www.defiance.com/en/series/video/2634770
That Arch. Is this Saint Louis?
REMEMBER THIS TOO?
I'm sold on Saint Louis!
First couple minutes of DEFIANCE is now online: http://www.defiance.com/en/series/video/2634770
That Arch. Is this Saint Louis?
REMEMBER THIS TOO?
I'm sold on Saint Louis!
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Here's some info on another film set in St. Louis:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/207 ... m?ref=live
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/207 ... m?ref=live
We hope to finish The Boys at the Bar as quickly as possible, to screen at a few festivals, and then to open the film in a few key cities, especially Salt Lake City, Utah (the home of Project 23) and St. Louis, Missouri (where the movie is set) before distributing the movie EVERYWHERE and in every way possible - theatrically, on DVD and Blu-Ray, Video on Demand, internet download, etc.
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"What is That?" is a new show on the Science Channel and I saw one leg of the Arch and a shot of one of its elevators on a preview.
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"Southern vibe?" What are they even talking about? They better not make STL look like its just populated by a bunch of hoosiers. I have high hopes for any film set in STL, though, so I will give it a chance.
Full Story"The First Pick" a film about a basketball star struggling to find his way, will start shooting in St. Louis in late August. The film stars University City native and Chaminade graduate Bradley Beal.
The film is co-written by McCluer graduate Craig Thomas, who will also direct the project and play Beal's brother in the film. The boys' mother will be played by Vivica A. Fox.
And potentially the most important bit:
Thomas and Scott hope to open a production office in St. Louis to create a steady film industry in the area.
"There are people looking to invest in this area that have just been waiting for the right opportunity," Thomas said. "We hope this kickstarts that."
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Here is a pretty awesome, high quality video of LA settings used in the Blade Runner.... (Bradbury Building, Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House, etc.) what it looked like in 2009 when filmed and what it will look like in 2019 when the replicants come into being:
Anyway, these guys should do the Saint Louis sites in Escape from New York.
p.s. Bradbury Building is completely awesome.
Anyway, these guys should do the Saint Louis sites in Escape from New York.
p.s. Bradbury Building is completely awesome.
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Not surprisingly, it's looking like Jennifer Lynch's A Fall From Grace wont' be filmed in St. Louis because Mizzourah f*cking sucks. Meanwhile, Illinois has offered them a 30% tax break. From their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Fall-F ... ion=stream
https://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Fall-F ... ion=stream
St. Louis and Missouri should be ashamed of itself for letting opportunities like this pass it by.
A Fall From Grace growing cast:
Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker joins Tim Roth, Vincent D'Onofrio, Paz Vega, Willow Shields, David Lynch, Cedric the Entertainer, and Nelly as a primary cast member in A FALL FROM GRACE. Forest previously won the Oscar for Best Actor in THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND ... And schedule permitting, Benicio Del Toro will do an extended cameo in the film ...
A Fall From Grace growing cast:
Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker joins Tim Roth, Vincent D'Onofrio, Paz Vega, Willow Shields, David Lynch, Cedric the Entertainer, and Nelly as a primary cast member in A FALL FROM GRACE. Forest previously won the Oscar for Best Actor in THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND ... And schedule permitting, Benicio Del Toro will do an extended cameo in the film ...
If I'm remembering correctly, that means in the last three years we've lost both A Fall From Grace, Fun Size (?) and, I believe, another film from the producer/s of Up in The Air. For Fun Size, I believe the producers were requesting a $4 million dollar tax credit, versus the $2 million the State allocated. Governor Nixon decline and it was reported the production would be moving to Georgia...looks like it ended up going to Ohio via IMDB.
I also can't be sure if it's because of a tax credit issue (or that it's just a really stupid premise for a movie), but Three Nights in August has been in a three-year stall.
Better the state get 70% of film production taxes and business support than 100% of nothing...
I also can't be sure if it's because of a tax credit issue (or that it's just a really stupid premise for a movie), but Three Nights in August has been in a three-year stall.
Better the state get 70% of film production taxes and business support than 100% of nothing...
A couple of days ago, Pappy's was featured on ABC's The Chew.
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Sharknado II will be set in NYC:
http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/t ... f256d.html
We need to do all we can to get Sharknado III - Saint Louis Boogaloo. I envision the Mother of all Tornadoes that stirs up a lost species of huge, vicious Pallid Sturgeon -- or possible mutant Asian Carp -- from the Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois Rivers and shears off the Arch from its base which then acts like a maniacal boomerang that rips apart the Chicago skyline before gently resting at its former spot at the conclusion.
http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/t ... f256d.html
We need to do all we can to get Sharknado III - Saint Louis Boogaloo. I envision the Mother of all Tornadoes that stirs up a lost species of huge, vicious Pallid Sturgeon -- or possible mutant Asian Carp -- from the Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois Rivers and shears off the Arch from its base which then acts like a maniacal boomerang that rips apart the Chicago skyline before gently resting at its former spot at the conclusion.
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Anybody ever see ST. LOUIS: THE STEAMBOAT YEARS on KETC? It is so unbelievabley great. The pictures and factoids laid out are stunning. Some highlights....STL docks reminded people of the Liverpool docks, residential began west of 5th Street.
The city was basically built like a mish mash of European capitals. Wish I had a time machine. We as a society have purposefully obliterated our own history. Maybe that contributes to the rudderless disconnected nature of our modern lives and why being 'connected' through social media and technology while false and hollow seems so important to us.
Find this documentary.
The city was basically built like a mish mash of European capitals. Wish I had a time machine. We as a society have purposefully obliterated our own history. Maybe that contributes to the rudderless disconnected nature of our modern lives and why being 'connected' through social media and technology while false and hollow seems so important to us.
Find this documentary.
I just watched St. Louis: The Gilded Years on KETC. There was also one about the World's Fair (including some rare motion pictures). They're part of a series put together in the 50's by Laclede Gas.
They're all worth watching; good stuff.
They're all worth watching; good stuff.
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Looks like a film about the 90's in Creve Coeur is on it's way to getting enough funds to begin filming here.
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyr ... t_film.php
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyr ... t_film.php
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Sorry for the terrible pictures, but having rented "Identity Thief" in Blu Ray, I can't get anything better than iPhone pictures of my TV.
Not knowing there was anything in the movie about STL, I thought it was cool to hear a mention of it. Little did I know, about 1/3rd or 1/4th of the movie would actually take place in St Louis....or, at least, a very doctored version of St Louis.
I Googled it to see if I could find better images and found this article;
"Film highlights lack of movie making in Missouri"
http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/362467 ... n-Missouri
Any way, here's the Poplar Street Bridge...
Notice the Poplar becomes a boulevard through downtown...and quite a few additional buildings. Hey, they treated STL very good.
15 minutes later or so, the people trailing the main characters drive in to St Louis...
It's a shame they couldn't actually film here. Although, as I told my wife, "they sure made St Louis look sexy."
Not knowing there was anything in the movie about STL, I thought it was cool to hear a mention of it. Little did I know, about 1/3rd or 1/4th of the movie would actually take place in St Louis....or, at least, a very doctored version of St Louis.
I Googled it to see if I could find better images and found this article;
"Film highlights lack of movie making in Missouri"
http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/362467 ... n-Missouri
Any way, here's the Poplar Street Bridge...
Notice the Poplar becomes a boulevard through downtown...and quite a few additional buildings. Hey, they treated STL very good.
15 minutes later or so, the people trailing the main characters drive in to St Louis...
It's a shame they couldn't actually film here. Although, as I told my wife, "they sure made St Louis look sexy."
Recently rented the movie as well and had similar thoughts. While the view in the restaurant with the Arch shining out the window was a nice touch, it would have been a lot cooler if it would have been in Cielo inside or on the deck. A brief search yielded some information that Atlanta was used for a bulk of the filming, but not sure if the "St. Louis" scenes were definitely there.
Despite the first CGI skyline shot, the Eads shot is pretty great. The overall atmosphere portrayed in STL certainly was a big step away from "Roll 'em up!"
Despite the first CGI skyline shot, the Eads shot is pretty great. The overall atmosphere portrayed in STL certainly was a big step away from "Roll 'em up!"