Good morning! Here’s a look at today’s biggest filming headlines. If you have any more info about any of these films or their filming locations, let us know at olv@onlocationvacations.com!
-Spider-Man 4 has been pushed back and at this point there is NO start date. Apparently, the film’s director was less than impressed by the script. According to Deadline.com, “Sam Raimi had been very vocal inside Sony that he “hated” it. Now Raimi and Sony are anxiously waiting for still another version from screenwriter Alvin Sargent, who wrote Spidey 2 & 3.”
UPDATE: Looks like Spidey’s no more.
-It looks like Joshua Jackson’s real life love, Diane Kruger, will be appearing with him on Fringe this season. Diane was spotted on the Fringe set yesterday filming a car scene.
-Next month, James McAvoy, Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick will begin filming the movie tentatively titled I’m With Cancer in Vancouver. McAvoy will play a 25-year-old who learns he has cancer and spends years battling it. Kendrick will play Katherine, a young psychologist assigned to handle his case despite her lack of real life experience.
-Spike Lee’s Latest, Son of the South, recently began filming in Alabama. According to New South Books– the publisher of The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement on which the film is based- the filmmakers recently shot a lunch counter sit-in scene in Greenville’s Court Square Cafe. Film crews then moved on for a day of shooting in Montgomery and will be completing filming during the summer of 2010.
-Ashley Greene and Gossip Girl’s Sebastian Stan are set to star in The Apparition, about a young couple haunted by a supernatural presence unleashed during a college experiment. The movie is set to kick off on February 1 in Berlin before it moves to Los Angeles in March.
-Lucy Punch has just joined the indie drama Earthbound, which begins shooting this month in Louisiana. Kate Hudson and Gael Garcia Bernal also star. Hudson plays a woman who learns she has been stricken with cancer before meeting a new guy. Punch will play the woman’s best friend and advertising agency co-worker. We had originally heard the the movie would be filmed in NYC but the New Orleans Film Office is confirming it will be shot in NOLA.
