Filming News: Link Love for October 14, 2009

Kristen Bell has signed on to co-star with Christina Aguilera in Burlesque, about “the journey of an ambitious small-town girl (Aguilera) with a big-town voice who finds love and success in a Los Angeles neo-burlesque club.” Shooting begins in Los Angeles November 9th with a Thanksgiving 2010 release planned.

Jon Hamm was injured on the Boston set of The Town last week.

Boarding School 3D, starring David Chokachi, begins filming in Detroit later this year. Wasn’t he on one of those VH1 shows where washed up celebs go to try to revive their career? Based on the title of this movie, I don’t think it worked.

Gerard Butler is blaming the paps for ruining scenes for The Bounty while they were filming in NYC. He said, “A lot of the paparazzi are really good people but some of them are a nightmare. They go out of their way to disrupt filming and it’s really sad because you’re there with a crew of 200 just trying to make a living.”

This isn’t movie related, but it’s such a cool idea I had to include it: Rap Maps: Plotting Jay-Z’s ‘Empire State of Mind’ on Google.

Several big names are heading to Spokane, WA for the movie The Big Bang. Antonio Banderas, Sam Elliott, Rebecca Mader (Lost) and Snoop Dogg are all set to star in the film. This will be the second movie Snoop filmed in Spokane, he was also featured in the 2007 film, The Golden Door as well.

Shreveport, LA has launched a filming location sites tour for their city.

Extras are need for the film, Let Me In which begins filming in Albuquerque next month.

Monday, Governor Schwarzenegger signed an anti-paparazzi bill that will make it easier to sue media outlets that use photos that invade celebrities’ privacy.

Finally, as Perez would say, this is completely gratuitous.

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