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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






 
     
 
January 17, 2008::Daily Sundance Film Festival 2008 Post-Gazette Diary
Dawn Keezer, director of the Pittsburgh Film Office is covering the Sundance Film Festival 2008 for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  To read her daily diary about daily screenings, celebrity sightings and the exclusive "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" premiere dinner click the link below.  Daily updates from Park City, Utah through Wednesday, January 23, 2008.
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December 9, 2007::Associated Press - Tax breaks mean more lights, camera, action for Pennsylvania.
Short Teaser SentenceAssociated 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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October 19, 2006::The Pittsburgh Film Office Announces Television Series for Southwestern Pennsylvania
The Pittsburgh Film Office (PFO) announced today during a press conference at the Regional Enterprise Tower that Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), the leading independent filmed entertainment studio, and Mandeville will produce a television series for cable network Spike TV in southwestern Pennsylvania beginning in early 2007.
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Date of Press Release::CBS pilot "Smith" Shooting in the Pittsburgh Area
The John Well's television pilot "Smith" will be filming in downtown Pittsburgh and Oakland from Thursday, March 23, 2006 - Tuesday, March 28, 2006.  "Smith" stars Ray Liotta, Simon Baker, Virginia Madsen and Amy Smart.
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July 20, 2004::GOVERNOR RENDELL SIGNS FILM PRODUCTION TAX CREDIT BILL INTO LAW
Governor Edward G. Rendell today signed House Bill 147 into law which provides for a 20 percent Film Production Tax Credit for film production expenses incurred in Pennsylvania during the taxable year. The bill was signed into law at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia.
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