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Film Notes: 'One for the Money' continues filming
Friday, July 23, 2010
By Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
This is what happens when your city becomes a mini-Hollywood hub.
Earlier this week, a girl posted on boringpittsburgh.com that Taylor Lautner would be shooting close to Federal Street on the North Side. But another poster corrected her -- the movie filming near the old Garden Theater is Katherine Heigl's "One for the Money" and not "Abduction."
So, do not lug the "Twilight" posters or copies of GQ with cover boy Lautner to the North Side.
Different movie. Way different but with a built-in appeal, audience and crowd of onlookers all its own, thanks to the wildly successful series of Janet Evanovich books about Stephanie Plum.
Ms. Heigl is playing the woman from blue-collar Trenton, N.J., who falls into the bail bonding business because she's jobless, broke, desperate and cousin to the guy who runs the Vincent Plum Bail Bonding Co. Her slice of Jersey includes the Stark Street Gym.
In "One for the Money," Ms. Evanovich writes: "Stark Street started down by the river, just north of the statehouse, and ran in a northeasterly direction. Crammed with small inner-city businesses, bars, crack houses and cheerless three-story row houses, the street stretched close to a mile."
Part of the neighborhood near the old Garden Theater has been turned into Stark Street, including the exterior location for the gym where Plum goes seeking information and finds a very hostile heavyweight boxer. To conceal the park on the opposite street, a makeshift wall covered with graffiti and posters has been erected.
Cries of "Lock up traffic" yesterday echoed down North Avenue, and the occasional real-life ambulance siren interrupted proceedings. The production is keeping a fire lane open, although one ambulance swung around the location on the way to nearby Allegheny General Hospital.
The Crazy Mocha coffee shop on East North Avenue assures patrons that it's open for business during filming, even if it appears to have been transformed into a tobacco outlet -- at least on one side. Across Federal Street, there's Trenton Tattoo, a hoagie shop and an adult book-video store plus a couple of Trenton police cars, all for the movie.
Yesterday, a couple of familiar faces in unfamiliar hair styles and colors and fashions were stationed in front of the adult store and tattoo parlor. They belonged to Ms. Heigl, clad in a green top and jeans with long dark hair hanging loose, and Sherri Shepherd and Ryan Michelle Bathe, who play hookers Lula and Jackie.
Stephanie was questioning the pair about a possible witness to a shooting who's gone missing. Ms. Shepherd, in a short wig, was closer to Ms. Evanovich's description of the women's wear of stretchy tank tops and tight-fitting knit shorts while Ms. Bathe's slender form was balanced on high heels in the 86-degree heat. "Bye bye," Ms. Shepherd called out, ending the encounter as the trio drifted toward some bottles of water and a tent providing cover for the filmmakers.
"One for the Money," being directed by Julie Anne Robinson, also plans to shoot in Braddock, Shadyside and Ambridge through early September. Its cast includes Jason O'Mara, Daniel Sunjata and John Leguizamo with a tentative release date of summer 2011.
Read more: www.post-gazette.com/pg/10204/1074699-60.stm#ixzz0w8srll1P
Friday, July 23, 2010
By Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
This is what happens when your city becomes a mini-Hollywood hub.
Earlier this week, a girl posted on boringpittsburgh.com that Taylor Lautner would be shooting close to Federal Street on the North Side. But another poster corrected her -- the movie filming near the old Garden Theater is Katherine Heigl's "One for the Money" and not "Abduction."
So, do not lug the "Twilight" posters or copies of GQ with cover boy Lautner to the North Side.
Different movie. Way different but with a built-in appeal, audience and crowd of onlookers all its own, thanks to the wildly successful series of Janet Evanovich books about Stephanie Plum.
Ms. Heigl is playing the woman from blue-collar Trenton, N.J., who falls into the bail bonding business because she's jobless, broke, desperate and cousin to the guy who runs the Vincent Plum Bail Bonding Co. Her slice of Jersey includes the Stark Street Gym.
In "One for the Money," Ms. Evanovich writes: "Stark Street started down by the river, just north of the statehouse, and ran in a northeasterly direction. Crammed with small inner-city businesses, bars, crack houses and cheerless three-story row houses, the street stretched close to a mile."
Part of the neighborhood near the old Garden Theater has been turned into Stark Street, including the exterior location for the gym where Plum goes seeking information and finds a very hostile heavyweight boxer. To conceal the park on the opposite street, a makeshift wall covered with graffiti and posters has been erected.
Cries of "Lock up traffic" yesterday echoed down North Avenue, and the occasional real-life ambulance siren interrupted proceedings. The production is keeping a fire lane open, although one ambulance swung around the location on the way to nearby Allegheny General Hospital.
The Crazy Mocha coffee shop on East North Avenue assures patrons that it's open for business during filming, even if it appears to have been transformed into a tobacco outlet -- at least on one side. Across Federal Street, there's Trenton Tattoo, a hoagie shop and an adult book-video store plus a couple of Trenton police cars, all for the movie.
Yesterday, a couple of familiar faces in unfamiliar hair styles and colors and fashions were stationed in front of the adult store and tattoo parlor. They belonged to Ms. Heigl, clad in a green top and jeans with long dark hair hanging loose, and Sherri Shepherd and Ryan Michelle Bathe, who play hookers Lula and Jackie.
Stephanie was questioning the pair about a possible witness to a shooting who's gone missing. Ms. Shepherd, in a short wig, was closer to Ms. Evanovich's description of the women's wear of stretchy tank tops and tight-fitting knit shorts while Ms. Bathe's slender form was balanced on high heels in the 86-degree heat. "Bye bye," Ms. Shepherd called out, ending the encounter as the trio drifted toward some bottles of water and a tent providing cover for the filmmakers.
"One for the Money," being directed by Julie Anne Robinson, also plans to shoot in Braddock, Shadyside and Ambridge through early September. Its cast includes Jason O'Mara, Daniel Sunjata and John Leguizamo with a tentative release date of summer 2011.
Read more: www.post-gazette.com/pg/10204/1074699-60.stm#ixzz0w8srll1P
