Arts & Culture
Tom Hanks on the local set for Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies. (Photo by Alex Kritsky / Midwood Productions [http://www.midwood-productions.com])It’s somewhat old news that Ditmas Park’s stately homes and tree-lined streets set an ideal stage for movie and television productions — New York City has
Fan Girl
Another film shoot will be in the area on Thursday, September 18, and cars are already banned from parking on the blocks where they’ll be working. The movie is called Fan Girl, and it’s mostly been shooting around Long Island, including in Westbury [http://thewestburytimes.com/2014/09/
Filmed in Flatbush
There may only have been one film production working in our area this week [/blog/art-music/filming-in-ditmas-park-this-week-robert-de-niro-anne-hathaways-the-intern] as opposed to last week’s five [/blog/art-music/filming-in-ditmas-park-this-week-experimenter-unforgettable-friends-of-the-people-more] , but it looks like this coming Monday, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire [http://www.hbo.com/boardwalk-empire] will be making up for it. We
Filmed in Flatbush
Signs are posted this morning on E 18th Street between Ditmas Avenue and Dorchester Road for The Intern [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2361509/], a comedy directed by Nancy Meyers [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0583600/] (Father of the Bride [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101862/], It’s Complicated [http:
Arts & Culture
The Black Box [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2968404/], ABC’s drama starring Vanessa Redgrave [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000603/?ref_=tt_cl_t5] and Kelly Reilly [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0717709/?ref_=tt_cl_t1], will be back to filming in the neighborhood next Wednesday over several
Filmed in Flatbush
Stuck inside today, but yearning for the streets of Ditmas Park? We’ve just updated our list of movies and TV shows filmed in the area [/blog/art-music/movies-shows-filmed-in-ditmas-park]–some of which aren’t out yet, but some of which you can catch on cable, Netflix [http://netflix.com/WiHome]
a night like this
Gabrielle Altheim, neighborhood resident and filmmaking student at Brooklyn College, is looking for a local home in which to shoot her upcoming thesis A Night Like This [https://www.facebook.com/anightlikethismovie]. Altheim describes the project: > Jane is a 15-year-old girl going through the typical problems of teenage-hood. She
Cymbeline
Cymbeline [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3093522/], a film based on the Shakespeare play of the same name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbeline], will be shooting in Ditmas Park this coming Monday, August 26. ‘No parking’ signs are up along Argyle Road between Church and Albemarle, and on Church
chandler kauffman
Heads up (although not much), drivers–if you’re parked on Stratford between Turner and Albermarle, make sure your car is moved by 5pm today. We spotted these signs this morning (although we’re 90% sure they weren’t there around 9am yesterday–are we crazy?) asking residents to clear
a walk among the tombstones
Seems like a large chunk of the upcoming film A Walk Among the Tombstones [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365907/] will be set in our area — at least, they’re spending quite a bit of time shooting [/blog/tag/a-walk-among-the-tombstones] out here, having first shown up around March 10. Neighbor
Bill Hader
The Skeleton Twins [http://www.hitfix.com/news/snl-thesps-kristen-wiig-and-bill-hader-to-play-twins-in-new-indie-comedy] is filming on Rugby and Beverley Roads over the next week. The crew has been spotted in Park Slope [http://parkslopestoop.com/blog/art-music/the-skeleton-twins-with-kristen-wiig-shoots-at-high-dive] and the South Slope [http://southslopenews.com/blog/art-music/the-skeleton-twins-crew-spotted-at-freddys] recently. Today, they’re setting up
Filmed in Flatbush
If you look closely, you’ll see that the video for Santigold’s “The Keepers,” which came out in July, was filmed on Marlborough Road between Church and Albemarle. Neighbor Hunter noticed that the singer mentions being in Ditmas Park in the behind the scenes video seen here [http://youtu.
Filmed in Flatbush
Okay, it’s possible that Elizabeth Olsen, Dakota Fanning, and Demi Moore may not be in the area on Thursday and Friday, but the movie Very Good Girls [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1931602/], which features all of them (and Peter Sarsgaard and Richard Dreyfuss) will be filming around here