Pittsburgh Business Times – Friday, April 11, 2008 Pennsylvaniafaces competition as other states sweeten film incentives By Tim Schooley In the ongoing interstate contest of luring film production with juicy incentives, Pennsylvania and every other state have just been outdone by Michigan, which last week enacted a package that includes a 40 percent cash rebate that rises to 42 percent if films are shot in select communities. http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/04/14/story11.html Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Friday, April 11, 2008 A guide to Pittsburgh sites in 'Smart People' By Barbara Vancheri When crew members from "Smart People" promised to restore the Mangan house in Friendship to its original state, they weren't kidding. They returned the wine bottles in a rack in the dining room to their original slots, thanks to the "before" photos they took. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08102/872312-254.stm Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Friday, April 11, 2008 After finding a sense of family here, 'Smart' director selected Pittsburgh By Barbara Vancheri Dennis Quaid, an actor who often plays a heroic or athletic figure, packed on the pounds to come to Pittsburgh in fall 2006. He gained the weight to portray Lawrence Wetherhold, a Carnegie Mellon University professor trapped in a fugue of grief over the death of his wife. "Unlike me, the Jewish shlub that I am, I think he can't gain weight," at least not easily, director Noam Murro said in a phone call this week. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08102/872308-254.stm Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Friday, April 11, 2008 Movie Review: ‘Smart People’ Pittsburgh-set movie loses punch when it goes off campus By Barbara Vancheri "Smart People" is not particularly smart. Or funny. Or terribly moving. Shot and set in Pittsburgh, the dramedy stars Dennis Quaid, Thomas Haden Church, Sarah Jessica Parker and Juno herself, Ellen Page, without the striped top, jeans, hoodie and pregnant pause. Instead of playing an expectant 16-year-old, she's a friendless overachiever whose senior year revolves around Young Republicans, model U.N. and National Honor Society. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08102/872311-120.stm?cmpid=HBEHTML# Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Friday, April 11, 2008 ‘Smart’ crew, homeowners found relationship mutually beneficial By Pam Starr Producers of the movie “Smart People,” which was filmed in Pittsburgh, looked at 20 to 30 houses before deciding to shoot scenes at Tom and Kim Mangan’s stately Victorian house in Friendship. http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_561752.html Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Friday, April 11, 2008 Pittsburgha ‘Smart’ choice for film’s setting By Michael Machosky Pittsburgh is a good place for smart people, apparently. The collegiate drama “Smart People” – opening today – was shot at Carnegie Mellon University and other locations around Pittsburgh. It’s about depressed widower Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid), a literature professor, trying to put his life back together. http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_561751.html Valley News Dispatch – Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Movie scene filmed in Saxonburg By Celanie Polanick On Monday, a farmhouse, barn and cornfield off Roebling Drive were transformed for a day into a snowy, post-apocalyptic wasteland for their role in the upcoming movie “The Road.” http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/mostread/s_561240.html PittsburghPost-Gazette – Friday, April 4, 2008 Film Notes: Pittsburgh Filmmakers spotlights Coen brothers By Barbara Vancheri Mark your calendars "Smart People," filmed in Pittsburgh in late fall 2006, is scheduled to open April 11. It stars Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church and Ellen Page, in her pre-Juno days. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08095/870362-254.stm The Herald Standard – April 3, 2008 Greene mine site to appear in film By Steve Ferris The former LTV Nemacolin Mine in Cumberland Township in Greene County was busier for a few days last week than it has been since miners dug coal from the ground there years ago. http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=2280&dept_id=480247&newsid=19448640 PittsburghPost-Gazette – Tuesday, April 1, 2008 3-D horror film joins busy lineup here By Barbara Vancheri It's no April Fool's joke: Yet another movie is coming to town, and this one will be a horror film in trendy 3-D. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08092/869448-42.stm Observer-Reporter - Tuesday, March 27, 2008 Filming begins in Nemacolin By Bob Niedbala Looking for a location to film a movie that takes place in a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, a film crew has found the right setting in the wastelands of the Nemacolin coal-refuse dump. http://www.observer-reporter.com/OR/Story/03-26-Hollywood-in-Nemacolin PittsburghPost-Gazette – Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Hollywoodbreaks out at a hockey game By Robert Dvorchak If you are attending tomorrow night’s Penguins game and security is summoned to remove an unruly spectator, don’t be alarmed. It’s part of a Hollywood script, most likely. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08086/867881-42.stm PittsburghBusiness Times – Friday, March 21, 2008 Proud Mary Entertainment plans Pittsburgh film projects By Tim Schooley Hollywood film producer Mary Aloe is getting ready to roll on her company's first film production in Pittsburgh, and she expects to keep on rolling through many more. http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/03/24/story12.html PittsburghBusiness Times - Friday, March 21, 2008 Pennsylvania businesses, individuals set to benefit from film tax credits By Erin Lawley You don't have to operate cameras, perform stunts or provide wardrobe trailers to pick up some cash from Pennsylvania's $75 million film production tax credit program. http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/03/24/story13.html Beaver County Times (Online) - Thursday, March 13, 2008 Hollywood in Beaver County By Scott Tady Andrew Ullman, Location Manager, talks with Scott Tady about why Raccoon Creek State Park was chosen as the shooting location for the new movie "The Road," starring Viggo Mortensen. http://www.timesonline.com/articles/2008/03/13/multimedia/newsbreak/doc47d99a811046f099240879.txt PittsburghPost-Gazette – Saturday, March 8, 2008 Film workers here straining to keep up with four movies By Timothy McNulty For more than a decade, Pittsburgh based film and TV workers have had to hit the road to places such as Philadelphia, Louisianna, and North Carolina to find work. Now, the booming Pittsburgh film industry is luring out-of-town film workers here. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08068/863514-28.stm The Fulton County News –March 6, 2008 Big Screen Film Shooting Here! By Lindsay R. Mellott Hollywood moved its cameras east this week to none other than Fulton County, where filming of a major motion picture starring Oscar winners and a 2008 nominee for an Academy Award took place over a period of four days. http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpid=541&show=archivedetails&ArchiveID=1344611&om=1 PittsburghPost-Gazette – Thursday, February 14, 2008 Hollywoodon the Mon: Moore flick latest to be filmed here By Timothy McNulty Movie trucks will be as commonplace as potholes on local streets the next few months. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08045/857323-42.stm PittsburghPost-Gazette – Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Filming of ‘The Road’ leads to Pittsburgh By Barbara Vancheri, PPG & Carolyn Kaster, AP Viggo Mortensen will star with Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Kodi Smit-McPhee in “The Road” which will be filmed in Pittsburgh. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08016/849427-42.stm PittsburghBusiness Times – Wednesday, January 16, 2008 ‘The Road’ leads to Pittsburgh By Tim Schooley “The Road” will lead into Pittsburgh next month, bringing four major movie stars to town for a film production of the bleak, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy. http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/01/14/daily27.html PittsburghBusiness Times – Friday, February 8, 2008 Spotlight shines on Pittsburgh as two more movies set scene By Tim Schooley Two more feature films are set to enter stage left into Pittsburgh. http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/02/11/story8.html Woodland Progress – Wednesday, February 6, 2008 Mr. Smith comes to Monroeville By Zandy Dudiak Snowmen and strings of bright, clear lights still dangle from the ceiling of Monroeville Mall five weeks after retailers deep-discounted winter coats and filled store racks with summer shorts. http://www.gatewaynewspapers.com/woodlandprogress/91943 Variety – Monday, January 14, 2008 Charlize Theron hits ‘The Road’ By Tatiana Siegel Charlize Theron has signed on to join Viggo Mortensen in the bigscreen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s bestselling novel “The Road” for 2929 Entertainment. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117979015.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1 PittsburghPost-Gazette – Tuesday, December 18, 2007 Local film gets $9.3 million in tax credits By Timothy McNulty Less than six months after being put in place, the state’s new film tax credits are supporting $37 million in spending by movie-makers working on films in the Pittsburgh area, the Pennsylvania Film Office said yesterday. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07352/842459-42.stm PittsburghBusiness Times – Friday, December 14, 2007 Hollywoodeast? Four films scout Pittsburgh for production By Tim Schooley Pittsburgh may need to do its post-industrial best to pose for the apocalypse. http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2007/12/17/story7.html Observer-Reporter – December 12, 2007 Moviemakers moving into Midway By Michael Jones Lights! Camera. Midway? http://www.observer-reporter.com/ Associated Press – December 9, 2007 Tax breaks mean more lights, camera, action for Pennsylvania By Ramesh Santanam When actress Mary Stuart Masterson wanted to direct her first feature film, she chose a family drama that was set in western Pennsylvania. But when it came time to film it, producers chose upstate New York. http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/103-12092007-1453552.html
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