In Photos: ‘Tower Heist’ recreates the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC

This weekend, Tower Heist confused quite a few  New Yorkers who stumbled upon the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade a week late!

The movie recreated the parade for a large action scene filmed outside of the Trump Hotel and Towers, 61st St and Central Park West, on both Saturday and Sunday.

The shoot included real marching bands, floats, clowns and at least three of the movie’s stars, Ben Stiller, Tea Leoni and Alan Alda. In one of the scenes they shot Saturday a large white truck crashed through a barrier and one of the marching bands!

You can see a video Eli sent to us of the scene below:

Tower Heist from On Location Vacations on Vimeo.

Check out a few photos from some of  our other readers too and don’t forget, if you spot a movie filming you can let us know about it at olv@onlocationvacations.com!

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[Thanks t0 Eli, Jim, @rocar86, @Andila23, @hellboo6987, @NNoonan214!]

5 COMMENTS

  1. In addition, I believe the music was recorded by the actual Macy’s Great American Marching Band, as I was there during the recording.

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