I live in Chicago so a list of movies filmed here would be too long to go into (I can think of at least ten movies filmed here in the last year and a half alone).
I’m originally from southeastern Washington state, so not a lot of filming goes on in that area - but here are a few: **The Basket ** (Peter Coyote, Karen Allen), **American Heart ** (at the prison in Walla Walla), **Always ** (in Soap Lake near Moses Lake), Die Hard 2 (Moses Lake airport). A bit north from me is Spokane where they filmed **Benny & Joon ** and Vision Quest. That’s all I can think of at the moment.
When I was younger we lived in Sheridan, Wyoming which was the backdrop for many of the town scenes in the Kenny Rogers move Wild Horses which actually wasn’t all that bad of a movie even though it appears (from reading the imdb site) it was a direct to TV affair.
My mom took my brothers and I downtown one day and we walked up and down the street being extras and waiting for Kenny Rogers to get thrown through a bar window. Unfortunately you can’t see us in the scene.
While watching another part of the shoot, Kenny Rodgers saw the crowd and began walking over to say hello to us. I was only like 10, but I thought the idea of meeting him was pretty cool! Then some asshole behind us yelled “Hey Kenny!! Where’s Dolly???”
Mr. Rogers did an about face and walked back the way he had come from and I never did get to meet him.
It’s been over 20 years, but if I ever happen to see that bastard, I’m going to take a bat to him. What a rude, unnecessary thing to do. :mad:
Quite a lot of films have been shot at various places here in Montana. I actually met Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick when I traveled on the same flight with them from LA to Kalispell, Montana, for the shooting of his scenes in “The River Wild” some years ago. Kevin and Kyra were very gracious, and two of the slenderest people I have ever seen! “A River Runs Through It” was filmed near the Gallatin River, outside Bozeman, Montana, though based on a true story which really took place just outside my hometown of Missoula, some 200 miles west of Bozeman. “Amazing Grace and Chuck” was filmed near Livingston, MT, and a previous flame of mine had a bit part in that flick. He just loved Jamie Lee Curtis! The notoriously cost-overrun & ill-fated “Heaven’s Gate” was partially filmed near Billings, MT and other locales. The artsy “North Fork” of a couple years ago was filmed near Fort Peck Reservoir some 150 miles north of here.
But to be honest, the most impactful film setting for me, in a place where I have lived, was the use of the exterior shots of Timberline Lodge, on Mount Hood outside Portland, Oregon, for the haunted hotel in “The Shining” a la Kubrick. After seeing that movie, I could not even go inside that hotel for a couple years…I was terrified I would see the dog-masked-man in a corridor there. I was afraid to see Room 227. Or the little chopped up girls lying sprawled in a hallway. I had to be thoroughly convinced that the interiors were all a stage set before I would go inside Timberline Lodge. And even then I was still skin-crawly around the place. Freaky!
There are quite a few movies that have been filmed either in Santa Rosa, or in the general area.
Probably the most famous are Alfred Hitchcock’s works.
Shadow of a Doubt was filmed and set in Santa Rosa. The Birds was filmed and set in Bodega Bay, about 35 minutes west of here.
Others filmed in Santa Rosa:
Pollyanna - Filmed in the stunningly gorgeous McDonald Mansion, which is across the street from the house used in Shadow of a Doubt, and a house used in a scene from Scream.
Several scenes in **Scream **were filmed in Santa Rosa, and more were meant to be, but the city apparently objected to the filming after reading the script and several scenes were moved a few miles north to Healdsburg. If you watch the credits to nearly the end, you’ll see “No thanks whatsoever to Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board.” :\
Peggy Sue Got Married was filmed in and around Santa Rosa and Petaluma, which is about 20 miles south of us and also the main filming location for many other movies, most notably American Graffiti.
Cheaper By The Dozen was also filmed in and around Santa Rosa and Petaluma, with one shot of the inside of our favorite breakfast place in town that’s been a regular stop for us when we have out of town guests.
There are too many movies for me to name, there is a website that tries to keep an active list of films though.
Caddyshack had parts filmed here in Boca Raton, very close to where fellow Boca Doper Daithi Lacha lives. He could almost hit the golf resort with a loogie, if he wanted to.
Two television shows were set in Indianapolis; One Day At A Time and Close To Home. Only the stock outdoor shots were done there.
A baseball movie (Eight Men Out?) was partly shot in the old Bush Stadium, former home of the Indianapolis Indians AAA baseball team. Local lore says the architect for Chicago’s Wrigley Field saw Bush’s ivied brick walls before drawing his design. It was called Victory Field in those days, and the new stadium where the Indians play today is also called Victory Field.
Hoosiers’ state final game was shot in Butler University’s Hinkle Fieldhouse, where the real life team from Milan beat the Muncie Bearcats for the state title.
My town provided the Cyberdyne Corp exteriors for Terminator 2: Judgment Day. All the kids in town went out to the location, to look for Ahnuld and watch stuff blow up.
I’m sure WeirdDave knows the locations better than me, but a couple were filmed close to me - Avalon filmed the Fourth of July country club scenes at Valley Country Club, the pool near where I grew up. I went to my mother’s house and watched some of the filming one night. The production staff thought some of houses (not ours, but some of the neighbors) might be in the backgrounds and asked that they remove the old TV antennas they still had up. They offered to do it for them.
And Justice For All…, an Al Pacino movie from the late 70s had a scene filmed at the Lutherville nursing home where my grandfather lived.
Runaway Bride filmed some scenes out by my firehouse.
Well, seeing as I live in Studio City and work in Pasadena, commuting through Burbank I would have to answer most of them. It’s a royal pain in the ass sometimes, in the last year they’ve done filming 3 or 4 times on my street at home. Those all seemed to be small studio things though, so all the hassle with no big stars.
In Country. starring Bruce Willis, was shot mainly in my hometown. Seemed fitting, since the book it was based on was set there (author Bobbie Ann Mason is from there.)
I’ve eaten at the Dairy Queen several times. In fact, we’re relatively sure that the pickup truck in the background of that scene used to belong to my father.
And the doctor’s office was actually a dry cleaners, right next to the old Pizza Hut.
There’s also a new one with Nicole Kidman coming out soon. I don’t know what it’s about or exactly where it was filmed, but much was made of the fact that she rented a house in Ruxton, not far from where I grew up. She was spotted around town, most notably doing her own grocery shopping at Graul’s and working out at the MAC. Whoop-dee-doo.
I’m from Tudela, a small town in Northern Spain. The Monegros and Bardenas deserts are right by and have been used in a number of movies, as well as locations on the Pirineos.
Several old westerns. Arizona, HAH! It’s not even Almería (which is in the other end of Spain), sometimes.
El Cid. The one with Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren (lady Jimena probably never looked that explosive, I always wonder what would she think).
Whasitcalled, that one with Orlando Bloom going to the Crusades…
There was a Quijote project that failed badly. A freaking desert and it decided to rain for 2 months straight, things like that. The movie never was finished, but the “making of” has won several Best Documentary awards.
Acción Mutante, perhaps the most brutal film in Spanish movie history. Definitely one of the craziest.
I’m from Tudela, a small town in Northern Spain. The Monegros and Bardenas deserts are right by and have been used in a number of movies, as well as locations on the Pirineos.
Several old westerns. Arizona, HAH! It’s not even Almería (which is in the other end of Spain), sometimes.
El Cid. The one with Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren (lady Jimena probably never looked that explosive, I always wonder what would she think).
Whasitcalled, that one with Orlando Bloom going to the Crusades…
There was a Quijote project that failed badly. A freaking desert and it decided to rain for 2 months straight, things like that. The movie never was finished, but the “making of” has won several Best Documentary awards.
Acción Mutante, perhaps the most brutal film in Spanish movie history. Definitely one of the craziest.