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Law & Order Criminal Intent Shooting in the Burg Today

February 9th, 2009 · Comments Off on Law & Order Criminal Intent Shooting in the Burg Today

Every now and then we like to note where things are shooting around Brooklyn. This is one of several shoots today. It’s on N. 6 St and surround blocks and is an episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent. We have confirmed the episode is not about The Ponz.

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GL Day Ender: Ugly Betty Shooting in Slope Tomorrow

December 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Ugly Betty, which has been making its way around town, will be shooting in beautiful Park Slope tomorrow from 5PM to 6AM. (Love those night shoots.) Looks like they’ll be working on Seventh Avenue between Union Street and 1 Streeet and also possibly on President St between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. What this means to […]

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Law and Order Shooting Today on Slope’s Fifth Avenue

September 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

A Special GL Correspondent emailed us with this photo to note that an old Park Slope friend, Law and Order, is shooting on Fifth Avenue today. The location is around First and Second Streets.

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Windsor Terrace (Sort of) Gets a New Spot: Get on Tapas

July 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on Windsor Terrace (Sort of) Gets a New Spot: Get on Tapas

Actually, it’s the storefront where stained glass was uncovered recently that will become a liquor store. It’s been converted for shooting for the film I Hate Valentine’s Day, which has been shooting locally in recent weeks, mainly in Windsor Terrace. The blog Shooting in Brooklyn, which covers film shoots, has some great pics of the […]

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Shooting in Carroll Gardens: A Microsoft Commercial!

July 7th, 2008 · 7 Comments

We know that bars in residential parts of the neighborhood tend to really upset Carroll Gardens residents, but how about TV commercial for Microsoft? Would an Apple shoot tick off fewer people? In any case, Thursday is Bill Gates Day on Carroll Street.

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Shooting on Smith Street: I Hate Valentine’s Day

June 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments

A feature called I Hate Valentines Day is shooting on Smith Street this week (it’s actually one of several shoots in Carroll Gardens). The Smith Street action takes place tomorrow and, given the film’s synopsis on IMDB, there’s little mystery why Smith has been chosen as a location: “A florist tries to convince a restaurant […]

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Shooting in Williamsburg: DNA

June 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Shooting in Williamsburg: DNA

This film, which is identified as DNA on the permit, is shooting in Williamsburg on Bedford Avenue and on N. 11 Street on Thursday and Friday. While we couldn’t find any detail on the film, it’s a big shoot, with several blocks showing signs

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Shooting in Fort Greene Today: Brooklyn’s Finest

June 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

The film “Brooklyn’s Finest” is shooting today in Fort Green on Dekalb Avenue near Adelphi Street. The film’s plot is described by IMDB as “Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths.” Among the stars: Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere, Wesley Snipes, Don Cheadle and Ellen Barken. […]

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Mystery Movie Shooting on Slope’s Seventh Avenue

May 19th, 2008 · 5 Comments

There’s a mystery film shooting on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope between Third and Fourth Streets this week. We say “mystery” because the sign for the shoot on the 21st says “untitled” production. We can say that a rumor that the film is about a Park Slope-based incident that is set off when a child […]

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Julie & Julia on Slope’s Fifth Avenue

May 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Julie & Julia has been shooting in Park Slope this week. The film involves a woman who tries cooking all of the recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One in a year. The film is using Cafe Moutarde as a stand in for a cafe in Paris in the 1950s. […]

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Bklink: Taking of Pelham 123 Scenes

May 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on Bklink: Taking of Pelham 123 Scenes

Here are some collected scenes from the filming of the remake of the taking of Pelham 123 with Denzel Washington and James Gandolfini in Dumbo.–Dumbo NYC

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Tags: Dumbo · Film Shoots · Shortlink

…On N. 6 Street in Williamsburg Today

February 19th, 2008 · Comments Off on …On N. 6 Street in Williamsburg Today

Ah, another shoot going on in the Burg. This one is happening today on N. 6 Street at Kent Avenue.

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Shooting in the Burg: Ghost Town

November 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment

First the premise of Ghost Town: A “misanthrophic dentist” having a colonoscopy dies for seven minutes. According to IMDB, when he comes back to life, “he can see the dead and is bothered by the ghost of a businessman who wants the dentist to break up the impending marriage of the ghost’s wife.” Among the […]

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Park Slope Getting Some Law & Order

August 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Park Slope Getting Some Law & Order

Those of you who were thinking that the nice thing about being in Brooklyn during the last week of August instead of at the beach is that you can park your car any place you freakin’ want, think again. The fun people at Law & Order have something in store for you tomorrow (8/30) on […]

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Want to be an Extra in Dimished Capacity?

June 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Want to be an Extra in Dimished Capacity?

Maybe you saw the film shoot in Park Slope last week for Diminished Capacity or read our item about it. Well, we got an email that the production is looking for extras for filming they’re doing between June 5 and June 8. We figured we pass on the information. We don’t know where they’re shooting […]

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Diminshed Capacity Shoot in Park Slope

May 25th, 2007 · Comments Off on Diminshed Capacity Shoot in Park Slope

As noted, Diminished Capacity was shooting at Eighth Avenue and Eighth Street in Park Slope yesterday. Here are a couple of shots, though we didn’t catch the thick of the action or any make any celeb sightings. No Matthew Broderick. No Virginia Madsen. But it did look like a nice catering setup in the basement […]

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Exceptionally Diminished Capacity in Park Slope

May 24th, 2007 · Comments Off on Exceptionally Diminished Capacity in Park Slope

We posted about the movie shoot in Park Slope for Diminished Capacity on Tuesday and several commenters noted that movie shooting season can mean hassles for residents impacted by the film shoot. Signs for the movie shoot are up on Eighth Avenue, Eight Street and Seventh Street. Last night we noticed that they’d spread to […]

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