Remember when Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn shut down Third Avenue for like five days when they were filming The Interpreter? Or how everyone in the West Village wanted to kill the cast of Sex and the City when they filmed here?
Well, sounds like those days are not really over yet. While New York City ranks second in movie production, (Los Angeles is still in the lead) The Apple is giving our west coast competitors a run for their coke money.
In 2005, the city’s location shooting days increased 35% over the previous year to 31,570, according to the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting. That figure covers television and film shoots that are on location, not in studios or soundstages.
Seriously, we don’t even want their trailers and their buffets of food here. Woody Allen, Robert DeNiro, Jeanine Garofalo — that’s fine. But once they start traipsing Catherine Zeta Jones and Matthew Mcconaughey through here, we’re gonna’ be pissed.
New York Is Making a Comeback as Film Production Ramps Up [Richard Verrier, New York Times]