Filming News Wrap Up: Joss Whedon will direct ‘The Avengers’, ’24’ wraps filming and more headlines

Here’s a look at some of this week’s biggest headlines. If you have any scoop to share, let us know at olv@onlocationvacations.com!

Sad news for 24 fans, last Friday was officially their last day of filming. [Fox]

Ethan Hawke is currently filming The Woman in the Fifth in Paris, France. Kristin Scott Thomas also stars in the indie flick directed by Pawel Pawlikowski and based on the original novel by Douglas Kennedy. Kristin has been keeping busy shooting Bel Ami with Uma Thurman and Robert Pattinson in Budapest, Hungary too. [Accidental Sexiness]

Peter Facinelli, America Ferrera, Zach Braff, Whoopi Goldberg, Abbie Cornish, Jessica Alba, and Aaron Eckhart are among the jurors at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. [Tribeca Film Festival]

How did I miss the fact that Joshua Jackson was going to be in Toronto this week? The Fringe star/man of my dreams won a Genie Award on Monday, congrats Josh! [PopSugar]

The cast of Jersey Shore is currently living at the Metropole Hotel in Miami. [Miami Herald]

Judd Apatow is selling his Pacific Palisades home for $6,495,000. [Real Estalker]

The brilliant Joss Whedon has been named as the director of the upcoming Marvel adaptation, The Avengers. Whedon is busy “reworking” the script now so they can begin filming in time to meet the tentative May 2012 release date. [ScreenCrave]

Hayley Atwood will play Peggy Carter in Captain America, which will be filmed in London this summer. [ComingSoon.net]

The town of Granger, TX plans to surround the entire downtown area, which is being used in the movie True Grit, with barricades during filming so “curiosity seekers won’t ruin things.” Filming moves from New Mexico to Granger in the next couple of weeks. [Chron]

Mel Gibson will donate sets from the movie he’s currently filming to a future museum inside the Ignacio Allende prison in the port city of Veracruz, Mexico. In January, 1,500 inmates were transferred out of the prison to make room for Gibson’s film, which began production this week and is tentatively titled How I Spent My Summer Vacation. [AP]

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