Hollywood of the south

[gjoseph]

Don't Forget Tampa!!

We've been in plenty films also the Punisher!

[Lexy]

Nashville anyone??? I mean it ain't just country music around here ya know. Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, others have houses here. The various musical artistic not withstanding of course.

[Newnan]

Who lives in Metro Atlanta...let's see- Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston, Elton John, Jane Fonda, Ludacris, lil' Jon, a lot of the CNN anchors (Frederika Whitfield, etc.) All of the weather channel people (not really celebrities though) Ciara, Bow wow, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodard, I think Ted Turner, Outkast, Tyler Perry, Madea!, Jimmy Carter, The King family, The girls from TLC, that's all I can think if

just thought of one- Jeff Foxworthy

[goodbye]

What about Ted Turner?

[KendallKid]

MIAMI of course. Now please end this thread. Can the south stand on its feet for once and allow someone to be like us. Why do we tend to feel so inferior in relation to all of the other regions of America.

100 percent agreed on every word of your post. Your also forgetting about the massive amounts of television being produced for the latin american and carribean markets which are filmed and broadcast from Miami. Additionally Networks such as Fox News, Mtv,Vh1,Disney Channel,Hbo, Discovery Networks all have there latin american headquters and studios in Miami.

And yes Miami is the Miami of the world.

[Newnan]

Miami seems to win this competition. The city is so unique and exciting that television and movies are drawn to it. Hopefully other cities will get more time on film though.

A lot of movies focusing on black, and specifically hip hop culture have been filmed here, but I'd like to see more movies and TV shows about other typed of people filmed here too.

Each city has had their moment in the TV spotlight:

Houston: Reba (very funny)

Dallas: Dallas, of course!

Atlanta: Designing Women

Nashville: All of the country music stuff

New Orleans: Cops and Girls Gone wild Mardi Gras editions (Haha) Not to mention a ton of News Coverage this year, although this isn't really positive publicity

Abd I'm sure the other cities have had their time on TV, maybe not in a series but in other things

[Newnan]

What about Ted Turner?

He spends most of his time out in Montana these days

[NCB]

New Orleans: Cops and Girls Gone wild Mardi Gras editions (Haha) Not to mention a ton of News Coverage this year, although this isn't really positive publicity

If we're talking about movies and TV shows, New Orleans has a lot more going for it than Cops and Girls Gone Wild. The city is the center of the film production industry that is becoming very big in Louisiana. Film production studios are being planned and built throughout the city, and I believe there are 3 different feautre films being filmed in New Orleans right now, and that number would be much higher if Katrina had not rolled through. The TV show "Thief" on the FX Network is set and partially filmed in New Orleans, though Katrina forced most of the filming to Shreveport, along with many other TV shows and movies. Also, there are many movies filmed in parts of New Orleans that are not set there. I've seen some movies that have used Uptown to double as another location, as well as downtown, Mid-City, including the Fairgrounds Racetrack, and Zephyrs Stadium over in Metairie. The film industry is very busy in New Orleans right now, and the activity is picking up more every day.

[shardoon]

If you want, I guess you could add Kings of Comedy to that list. Also some scenes in Eddie were filmed in the Coliseum.

Here is a list of a few of the movies and television shows that have been shot in or based in Miami.

MOVIES

2 Fast 2 Furious

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Ali

All About the Benjamins

Any Given Sunday

Bad Boys

Bad Boys 2

Big Trouble

Black Sunday

The Birdcage

Deep Throat

Flipper

Knights of the City

Making Mr. Right

Meet the Fockers

Mental Glitch

Miami Rhapsody

Miami Vice

Out Of Sight

Porky's

Red Eye

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise

Satan Was A Lady

Scarface

There's Something About Mary

The Specialist

Transporter 2

True Lies

Second Honeymoon

The Godfather, Part II

Lucky Me

Miami Horror

Blood and Wine

Analyze This

The Crew

From Justin to Kelly

The Punisher

TELEVISION

CSI: Miami

Empty Nest

The Golden Girls

The Golden Palace

Good Morning, Miami

The Jackie Gleason Show

Miami Vice

8th & Ocean

South Beach

MTV Real World

MTV Video Music Awards

MTV Room Raiders

MTV Spring Break

BET Spring Bling

Alright Already

Dave's World

Eve

Flipper

Grapevine

Invasion

Karen Sisco

Miami Ink

Nip/Tuck

Nurses

One World

[shardoon]

add to miami:

drop zone

fair game

ah..... heres a link that will help http://www.imdb.com/List?locations=Miami,+...ida,+USA&&tv=on

[davidals]

Funny thread. At the glitz level it's all about cities; at other levels it's more of a statewide thing: here in NC, the infrastructre of Wilmington, the big festivals (FullFrame is startting to be the international draw) centered in the Triangle, the film school in Winston and the documentary center in Durham are all very symbiotic... It strikes me that the NC industry seems most known (when it is recognized) for indie/art/documentary films, and (at the other extreme) low-budget quickies...

I'd say the Florida cities, might get my vote, just for glitz. Wilmington is a powerhouse though, more in a behind-the-scenes kinda way, but the infrastructure there goes back a while. As an offhand guess, I'd wonder if at least some industry types - producers, directors, writers - like the anonymity of the place (relative to other bigger Southern cities). It's big enough and accessible enough of a city to get things done, but small enough to maintain a bit of focus.

Some of the more acclaimed (tho perhaps esoteric) things set in or filmed in NC would include Being There (1979, d Hal Ashby, filmed), George Washington & All The Real Girls (2000 & 2002, d David Gordon Green, filmed and set), Blue Velvet (1986, d David Lynch, filmed and set), Hudsucker Proxy (1994, d Joel & Ethan Coen, filmed), Evil Dead II (1987, d Sam Raimi, filmed), A Color Purple (1984, d Steven Spielberg, filmed), Loggerheads & Dear Jesse(2005 & 1998, d Tim Kirkman, filmed and set), and Empire Records (1995, d Allen Moyle, filmed).

Of those, George Washington was one of the only debut films to screen in comeptition at both the Sundance and Cannes film festivals (Green, who was 25 at the time, had co-written the film while at NCSA in Winston and filmed it using a cast of mostly locals); it has since been released on DVD by Criterion.

Barbara Kopple's Harlan County USA was also just released on DVD by Criterion; she is (I believe) NC's lone resident Oscar-winning director, for American Dream in 1991.

[dan326]

Baton Rouge is also getting in on the film industry. There is already a film studio under construction/renovation in the city.

[rusthebuss]

So is the Norfolk area. Mission Impossible 3 was partly filmed here. The new world was filmed in Willamsburg. The movie Navy Seals was filmed here. Alot of military films have spots of our region in it. Richmond is in alot of movies as well.

[NCB]

Here is a list of movies filmed in Louisiana since 2002:

Feature Movies

[dimebag1980]

^From the list above, movies and TV series that have been fully, or partially filmed in Shreveport-Bossier over the last year include:

[Trae_1]

MTV is doing a new show in Houston called "Houston High." The same creaters who made Laguna Beach are making this show. It follows a group of MC's. Not sure when it will come out, but they did a casting thing a few weeks ago in June.

* Hellfighters (1968) with John Wayne

* Brewster McCloud (1970) - first film to be filmed inside the Astrodome

* The Getaway (1972) - filmed in Huntsville, Texas

* The Sugarland Express (1974) - filmed on location at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Inmate Division Jester III Unit in Sugar Land, Texas

* Rollerball (1975) - Set in Houston but filmed in Bavaria, Germany

* Logan's Run (1976) - filmed inside the Houston Hyatt Regency

* Futureworld (1976) - filmed at the Johnson Space Center facilities

* Telefon (1977) - set in Houston but filmed on a Hollywood backlot, parts of Los Angeles and inside the Hyatt Regency located at 5 Embarcadero in San Francisco, California)

* The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)

* Murder At The World Series (1977) - made-for-TV film

* The Swarm (1978)

* Urban Cowboy (1980)

* Texas (1980-1982) - Daytime soap opera, a spinoff of Another World

* Murder In Texas (1981) - made-for-TV film

* Student Bodies (1981)

* The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) - Character played by Dom DeLuise was based on KTRK personality Marvin Zindler

* Terms of Endearment (1982)

* Uncommon Valor (1983) - Set in Houston, filmed in California

* Cutter to Houston (1984)

* Paris, Texas (1984)

* The Trip to Bountiful (1984) - Set in Houston but filmed in Dallas, Texas

* Houston Knights (1987-1988)

* My Best Friend Is A Vampire (1988)

* Twins (1988) - Sale of engine set in Houston

* A Tiger's Tale (1988) - Rose's house was in League City, Texas

* Cohen and Tate (1989)

* Night Game (1989) - filmed in Galveston, Texas

* I Come In Peace (1990)

* RoboCop 2 (1990)- Filmed in Houston

* Sidekicks (1992)

* A Perfect World (1993) - Filmed in Huntsvile, Texas

* Jason's Lyric (1994)

* Reality Bites (1994)

* Thea (1994)

* Apollo 13 (1995)

* Independence Day (1996) - Houston is destroyed by a nuclear missile

* Tin Cup (1996) - Final tournament shot in Kingwood, Texas

* The Evening Star (1996)

* Don't Look Back (1996) - filmed in Galveston, Texas

* Selena (1997) - Selena's final concert scene set in the Astrodome, but filmed in San Antonio, Texas

* Armageddon (1998) - filmed at the Johnson Space Center facilities

* Rushmore (1998) - written and directed by Houstonian Wes Anderson and filmed at his alma mater - St. John's School

* Dance With Me (1998)

* Arlington Road (1999)

* 2000 WNBA Champions - Houston Comets (2000)

* Space Cowboys (2000)

* Reba (2001-) - set in Houston but filmed in Los Angeles

* Texas Justice (2001-) - Filmed in Houston

* Houston Medical (2002)

* The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003) - Set in Houston, but filmed in Canada

* Animal Cops: Houston (2003)

* Right on Track (2003) - Disney Channel Movie set in Houston, but filmed in Utah

* Where's the Party Yaar? (2003)

* Friday Night Lights (2004) (In the book and real life events, the final game of the Permian High School Team is played at The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas not the Astrodome of Houston)

* 14 Hours (2005) - Made-for-TV film set in Houston, but filmed in Canada

Though Houston and its suburbs are a prime spot for the filming of movies, the storylines do not usually include the story taking place in the city. (For example, The Chase (1994), was filmed entirely in Houston.

Washington DC (Arlington Road, Warning:Parental Guidance ),

San Diego ( The Chase )

Detroit (Robocop II )

Los Angeles Bill:On His Own (the reason they chose Houston is because parts of the Heights more closely resembled pre-war LA than did the original).

[BHCav]

He spends most of his time out in Montana these days

Wrong. His residence is just east of Tallahassee.

Has anyone seen miami lately? I would say it's the Dubai of the western hemisphere.

[shrek05]

I dont know whats funny about Wilmington not being glitzy, neither is Hollywood. So I guess you could say they are similar on that point. Yes, there are very wealthy people in and around Hollywood, way more than Wilmington of course. But what does that have to do with the movie productions.

I guess none of you have been to LA. Beverly Hills is glitzy. Bel-Air has the ginormous houses, but Hollywood Hills (western section of Hollywood, neither of which are cities but sub-sections of LA) has the highest concentration of celebrities. Almost every young celebity and big celebrity resides in Hollywood Hills including Lohan, Duff, Paris and Nicky Hilton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dunst, Kutcher, basically anyone you can think of.

Miami is definitely the Hollywood of the South.

[davidals]

Nashville anyone??? I mean it ain't just country music around here ya know. Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, others have houses here. The various musical artistic not withstanding of course.

And then there's Robert Altman's Nashville, a fine fine film...

Who lives in Metro Atlanta...let's see- Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston, Elton John, Jane Fonda, Ludacris, lil' Jon, a lot of the CNN anchors (Frederika Whitfield, etc.) All of the weather channel people (not really celebrities though) Ciara, Bow wow, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodard, I think Ted Turner, Outkast, Tyler Perry, Madea!, Jimmy Carter, The King family, The girls from TLC, that's all I can think if

just thought of one- Jeff Foxworthy

Hmmm...Whitney and Bobby - there's two to be proud of. I eagerly anticipate the lurid, ghostwritten autobiographies I suspect will be arriving roughly coincident with the next comeback attempt.

[davidzLA]

And then there's Robert Altman's Nashville, a fine fine film...

Also a fan. God**mn davidals, are you single?

Hmmm...Whitney and Bobby - there's two to be proud of. I eagerly anticipate the lurid, ghostwritten autobiographies I suspect will be arriving roughly coincident with the next comeback attempt.

Actually, I think Whitney Houston gets one good chance to pull off a Tina Turner, blame everything on cracked-out Bobby, get in the studio and come out with a make-or-break comeback album a l

[dimebag1980]

I forgot all about this thread. I've got to brag a little because I'm proud of the huge leaps my area has made in the film industry over the past 2 years.

Shreveport-Bossier recently ranked #6 on MovieMaker magazine's Winter 2007 list for the top 10 places for independant filmmakers to live and work.

http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.ph...st&p=690098

Here's the Top 10 list:

1. New York City

2. Philadelphia

3. Austin

4. Albuquerque

5. Las Vegas

6. Shreveport/Bossier City

7. Memphis

8. Miami

9. Portland

10. Salt Lake City

Currently in Shreveport-Bossier, filming is underway on Harold & Kumar 2, The Last Lullaby, and Cleaner starring Samuel L. Jackson. Production of a Queen Latifah movie called Mad Money is set to begin this year, and in March Stephen King's The Mist is supposed to begin production as well as The Better Man, starring actor/comedian Martin Lawrence.

Filming recently wrapped on Blonde Ambition, starring Jessica Simpson, and Homeland Security, starring Antonio Banderas and Meg Ryan. 2007 is off to a stellar start in Shreveport-Bossier's film industry, and 2006 was an excellent year.

[Memphis10]

According to the list above.....Shreveport is the Hollywood of the south....then Memphis...and third Miami......soooooooooooo why isnt Shreveport and Memphis included in the list?......Cuz yall didnt know....Now you do....lol....

[dimebag1980]

According to the list above.....Shreveport is the Hollywood of the south....then Memphis...and third Miami......soooooooooooo why isnt Shreveport and Memphis included in the list?......Cuz yall didnt know....Now you do....lol....

You know last night I was thinking Shreveport and Memphis should have been on that list, but I figured "what the heck."

[Memphis10]

You know last night I was thinking Shreveport and Memphis should have been on that list, but I figured "what the heck."

lol...they still gonna think what they wanna think anyways.....lol....kinda funny to me tho...

[Goothrey]

You could argue for Austin. It does have the South by South West Festival.