Filming News Wrap-Up: Locations for 12+ films shooting this summer including ‘Abduction’, ‘I Am Number Four’, ‘Real Steel’, & ‘Tenement’

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Its time to start planning your summer vacation! Here are more than a dozen new TV shows and movies that will be filming around the U.S. and Canada this summer! Check ’em out and let us know where you want to go. We’re thinking Pittsburgh might actually be the place to be come June and July!

Taylor Lautner has dropped out of Northern Lights and Liam Hemsworth is now in talks for the lead role. They better cast someone soon because according to Production Weekly, the film has already opened offices in Ann Arbor, MI for a June start.[Deadline.com & AnnArbor.com]

Lautner is still set to star in Abduction with director John Singleton this summer. Abduction is expected to shoot in Pittsburgh. [ComingSoon.net]

-Sharlto Copley is in talks to star in the Michael Bay/Stephen Spielberg produced film I Am Number Four, based on the first of a six book series. The movie will be shot in Vandergrift, PA this summer. [ComingSoon.net & Pittsburgh Live]

Michael Bay is also set to produce a reality series with Magical Elves, the production company behind Top Chef and Project Runway. In One Way Out, contestants from all walks of life will be pitted against each other in extreme competitions in hostile new environments. Like Survivor or Amazing Race, One Way Out will likely be shot at various locations around the world. [THR]

-Production Weekly is also reporting that Battleship, which was rumored to be filming in Australia and Hawaii, “will begin principal photography on August 16th at the Celtic Studios in Baton Rouge.” [Production Weekly]

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-Catherine Hardwicke’s The Girl With The Red Riding Hood, starring Amanda Seyfried, has opened offices at Vancouver Film Studios for a July 7 start. [Production Weekly]

-A spin-off of Jersey Shore, called Wicked Summer, is set to take place in Boston. Production begins in July. [NY Daily News]

Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air) will begin filming her directorial debut, Higher Ground, based Carolyn Briggs’s memoir This Dark World: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost, in Upstate New York this June. [Ropes of Silicon]

-Some of our long time readers may remember the movie Mineville, which was suppose to begin filming in Upstate NY almost two years ago. At the time, there was talk of some big names starring in the film, including Giovanni Ribisi. Now, the movie finally has financing, a start date (May 15), and a new name, Switchback, but lost its big name stars. [The Press Republic]

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Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman, will film at the Leslie Depot Diner in Leslie, MI on August 24. The movie begins filming throughout Michigan in June. [MLive.com]

The Glades, a new A & E series about an ex-cop who moves to Florida, will be filmed in Pembroke Park, FL. [Miami Herald]

Eva Longoria Parker is set to star in the supernatural horror film Tenement which will begin filming in NYC next month. [ComingSoon.net]

-The indie, We Need To Talk About Kevin starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, will be shot in Connecticut this summer. [IMDb.com]

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  1. Is there going to be any filming of John Wick 3 tomorrow Thursday in NY. Am from NJ and going to NY tomorrow and will love to see if I can see Keanu Reeves.

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