The senior casting producer for Gordon Ramsay’s show “Kitchen Nightmares” submitted this urgent casting call to Boring Pittsburgh today. They’re specifically looking in the Pittsburgh area for struggling restaurants to appear in the upcoming season 5 of what might seriously be considered one of the best reality TV shows ever!
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Category Archives: Hollywood of the East
Tom Cruise’s Pimped Out Trailer While Filming One Shot in Oakland (video + pics)
As we posted earlier, Tom Cruise and the One Shot movie crew is still in Pittsburgh. They were spotted working in Oakland at the intersection of Centre Ave. and N. Craig St. We’re still not sure if they were filming indoors or outside. Check out the pics of Cruise’s trailer below. It looks better than half of the houses in Pittsburgh!
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Tom Cruise Filming One Shot in Oakland
Tom Cruise is still in Pittsburgh and today the One Shot crew is going to film a scene in Oakland. Yellow base camp signs were posted all around Oakland yesterday and the Haddad’s trucks started showing up today. There are “CREW” signs in the parking lot behind the old Giant Eagle. The traffic at the intersection of Centre Ave. and N. Craig St. is already unbearable, but now Hollywood is taking up both sides of the road with Haddad’s trucks.
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Batman: The Dark Knight Rises Official Trailer
It’s finally here! We had so much fun covering The Dark Knight Rises filming in Pittsburgh over the summer. Lots of priceless memories and star stalking. And we cannot forget the traffic detours, early mornings, rainy days, snow in August, trying to get pics of Batman delivered to you guys before TMZ and other media conglomerates… but this video clip made it all worth it!
The city looks amazing! And don’t let them say Hollywood made Pittsburgh look beautiful – it was the other way around. By the way, check out Hines Ward at 01:27!
The Dark Knight Rises HD Trailer (Summer 2012)
Eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, the terrorist leader Bane arrives in Gotham City, pushing it and its police force to their limits, forcing its former hero Batman to resurface after taking the fall for Harvey Dent’s crimes.
Be a Backer of First Kiss, See the Results at Steeltown Film Factory
Next Wednesday (Nov 9th) at 7pm, in the Regent Square Theater, Steeltown Entertainment is hosting its Kick-Off Event of the Steeltown Film Factory, a nationally recognized screenwriting competition that awards up to $30,000 to the winning screenplay to be produced in Pittsburgh. The event will play host to Hollywood industry professionals, as well as screen the products of previous years’ competition winners.
About a year ago, I wrote a short, 12-page screenplay and submitted it to the Film Factory competition. The screenplay, “First Kiss”, follows the story of Adam Schoenberger, a fourteen year old boy who finds out a pretty girl wants to kiss him at his best friend’s Spin the Bottle party. My script finished as one of the three finalists of the 2011 competition, and I had the incredible experience of pitching to a panel of industry professionals in every round of the Film Factory competition.
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WTFPGH: Fingerless Hand Double Needed ASAP
This ad was recently posted on the casting notices page of the Pittsburgh Film Office. So, if you know someone with all four fingers missing on their left hand but with the thumb still in tact, tell them to respond to the ad as soon as possible since there will probably be a ton of people wanting the gig. WTF? Isn’t that why Hollywood has makeup and special effects specialists?
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