Here’s a look at some of this week’s other filming news stories that slipped through the cracks. If you have any news about a movie filming in your neck of the woods, let us know about it olv@onlocationvacations.com!
-We tracked The Sorcerer’s Apprentice all over NYC last year, now we have a look at the trailer, starring Nicolas Cage.
-We’ve heard that the Knockout has moved from Santa Fe to Espanola, NM, though nothing’s been confirmed. The movie, starring Channing Tatum and Ewan McGregor, will be wrapping up soon after filming in Europe and at various locations throughout New Mexico.
-Despite reports that Friends With Benefits (which is rumored to star Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher and is exactly what you expect it to be based on the title) was going to begin filming in Chicago in the next few weeks, PW is confirming that a production office has just opened on the Paramount lot and the plan is for filming to start in L.A. this May. Update: Some of the confusion about when and where this movie will be filmed is coming from the fact that a TV pilot of the same name is filming next month in Chicago. But the movie will be filming in L.A.
-Filming did just got underway for Dirty Girl in L.A. The movie, starring William H. Macy, Milla Jovovich and Tim McGraw, follows the ten year journey of a teenage runaway across the social and political landscape of America.
-Kate Hudson is in talks to star in Something Borrowed, along with John Krasinski and Gennifer Goodwin. The movie, which will reportedly be filmed in L.A., is based on Emily Giffin’s 2005 best-selling novel. Kate is also rumored to be starring alongside Jennifer Garner in Butter, which begins filming next month in Louisiana.
-According to PW, “Production has been pushed on indie gangster drama Criminal Empire for Dummies, plans were to start shoot starting this week in New Orleans.”
-Meanwhile, the new series, Memphis Beat has opened an office in Metairie, Louisiana and will begin filming in NOLA April 19. The TNT series stars Jason Lee.
-Finally, Vamps, which reunites Alicia Silverstone with Clueless director Amy Heckerling, is slated to begin principal photography on May 17 in Detroit.
