Posted August 15, 201113 yr Here is a place to post pictures from the filming of the movie. Here are a couple. I have more that Ill post later. Feel free to post your own! It was cool to see the fake building pieces scattered around. They also installed a phone booth and solar powered parking meter.
August 15, 201113 yr Cool shots! Anyone got any pics of the repainted fast food places on Euclid that have been mentioned on some of the threads?
August 15, 201113 yr Check out this Facebook group for a TON of pictures: http://www.facebook.com/comicbookmovies
August 15, 201113 yr fun stuff - how much longer are they shooting in town anyone know? I think until at least Sept 1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So cool...check out this video: http://www.cleveland.com/avengers/index.ssf/2011/08/the_avengers_filming_in_clevel.html
August 15, 201113 yr fun stuff - how much longer are they shooting in town anyone know? I think until at least Sept 1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So cool...check out this video: http://www.cleveland.com/avengers/index.ssf/2011/08/the_avengers_filming_in_clevel.html WOW, thats awesome. I wish I was down there right now!
August 15, 201113 yr So cool. I've also been watching the batman filming via youtube. Definitely worth checking out. Sooner or later people who are filming the filming of the movies will be developing pre-movies with their footage. Amateur stuff sure but I can see it being a thing
August 16, 201113 yr cool -- local ny bloggy coverage from gothamist (and no snark since that jerkoff joey left)! Joss Whedon Is Crushing NYC Cabs In Cleveland Right Now Live from... Cleveland! New York City cabs being crushed, during the filming of a scene from The Avengers. The production team, helmed by Joss Whedon, attempted to make East 9th Street in Cleveland look like Times Square, according to Movieline—did they succeed? The folks at Medical Mutual filmed some of the action from their offices above, and you can check out video on their Facebook page—there's a lot of black smoke explosions! http://gothamist.com/2011/08/15/crushed_cabs.php#photo-1 *** more news and pics here on io9: The Avengers A few more details have been revealed about the movie's use of the NASA Plum Brook facility near Sandusky, Ohio. It appears that the building will actually appear as itself, or at least as some NASA facility, because S.H.I.E.L.D. actually teams up with NASA during the movie. Also, it has been confirmed that the main cast members present for this filming will be Samuel L. Jackson and Jeremy Renner as Nick Fury and Hawkeye, respectively. Looking ahead, filming will reportedly move to Cleveland's East Ninth Street, which is doubling for New York and reportedly is being made to look like "a superhero war zone." [AceShowbiz.com] Here are a ton of set photos from the Cleveland location, all of which very much seem to live up to the descriptor "superhero war zone." [Cleveland Plain-Dealer and Comic Book Movie] http://io9.com/5830781/new-set-photos-reveal-all+out-superhero-carnage-in-the-avengers
August 16, 201113 yr I took a lot last Friday, thanks for making a thread for this! I'm curious what they will do to the Rotunda and the AT Tower/Building next to it when they leave. It looks so much better now! :-P and I love how they just kept the Schofield construction site as is, only made it a construction site in NYC! Also, anyone have pictures of what they're doing on Public Square?
August 16, 201113 yr I'm not a big comic book movie fan (outside of the new Batman series), so I have what might be a dumb question: Is this Avengers movie a big deal as far as comic book movies go?
August 16, 201113 yr ^ i dk about that, but the avengers filming in cleveland is popping up all over the ny media and putting cle in a positive light! check out this shot -- wow thats nuts! so did anyone catch those explosions?!! what was that like? from the nypost: Save us, Thor! 'Avengers' chaos rocks Midtown (Cleveland) By KATE SHEEHY Last Updated: 5:02 AM, August 16, 2011 Mayhem, NYPD cops, pedestrians fleeing in terror . . . just another day in Manhattan, right? Actually, it's downtown Cleveland playing the role of Midtown Manhattan yesterday for the superhero flick "The Avengers." In this explosive scene, aliens have just launched an attack outside "Grand Central Terminal." PHOTOS: 'THE AVENGERS' SET The scene's real-life location, East Ninth Street and Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland, is blocks from Lake Erie, while an old landmark bank was standing in for the iconic train station. "The Avengers" stars Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Captain America, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow. It's due out in May. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/save_us_thor_5b7vEJubOMWq5pd2iIvNyK#ixzz1VC4i9IRC
August 16, 201113 yr I'm not a big comic book movie fan (outside of the new Batman series), so I have what might be a dumb question: Is this Avengers movie a big deal as far as comic book movies go? Side note: It's currently being projected to be a $260 million film...putting it as the 3rd most expensive film of all time...
August 16, 201113 yr I'm not a big comic book movie fan (outside of the new Batman series), so I have what might be a dumb question: Is this Avengers movie a big deal as far as comic book movies go? Side note: It's currently being projected to be a $260 million film...putting it as the 3rd most expensive film of all time... Disney needs to recoup Marvel's losses and make up for having to buy the rights for movie deals that were already in place. They've put all their franchise characters, sans the X-Men (and their related characters) into this movie. Its not going to be pretty next May. I'll do everything in my power to see to it that its a failure! (evil laugh)
August 16, 201113 yr I'm not a big comic book movie fan (outside of the new Batman series), so I have what might be a dumb question: Is this Avengers movie a big deal as far as comic book movies go? Side note: It's currently being projected to be a $260 million film...putting it as the 3rd most expensive film of all time... Disney needs to recoup Marvel's losses and make up for having to buy the rights for movie deals that were already in place. They've put all their franchise characters, sans the X-Men (and their related characters) into this movie. Its not going to be pretty next May. I'll do everything in my power to see to it that its a failure! (evil laugh) Just because WB wont get off their @ss and use all the characters from the DC universe, instead of just rehashing Batman and Superman every 10 years or so. Since X-men came out in 2000 they remade Superman (meh) and Batman (Christopher Nolan is a genius) while Marvel unleashed their entire portfolio. It took 11 years to go to their next most recognizable property, Green Lantern, which was terrible. Hopefully Wonder Woman is better, I am already writing off the next Green Lantern as Ryan Reynolds is still leading it. WB handling of DC gets a big fail.
August 16, 201113 yr I'm not a big comic book movie fan (outside of the new Batman series), so I have what might be a dumb question: Is this Avengers movie a big deal as far as comic book movies go? Side note: It's currently being projected to be a $260 million film...putting it as the 3rd most expensive film of all time... Disney needs to recoup Marvel's losses and make up for having to buy the rights for movie deals that were already in place. They've put all their franchise characters, sans the X-Men (and their related characters) into this movie. Its not going to be pretty next May. I'll do everything in my power to see to it that its a failure! (evil laugh) Just because WB wont get off their @ss and use all the characters from the DC universe, instead of just rehashing Batman and Superman every 10 years or so. Since X-men came out in 2000 they remade Superman (meh) and Batman (Christopher Nolan is a genius) while Marvel unleashed their entire portfolio. It took 11 years to go to their next most recognizable property, Green Lantern, which was terrible. Hopefully Wonder Woman is better, I am already writing off the next Green Lantern as Ryan Reynolds is still leading it. WB handling of DC gets a big fail. OH NO YOU DI-INT! Those movies were commercial successes! Prove to me otherwise. Thor was snooze-fest! Captain America looked like Captain Crunch and that ending? REALLY? What exactly do you know of the "handling" of DC? Do tell!
August 16, 201113 yr Regardless of all that, I am very likely to go see this movie in the theaters because a significant portion of it was filmed here and it actually looks decent.
August 17, 201113 yr I'm not a big comic book movie fan (outside of the new Batman series), so I have what might be a dumb question: Is this Avengers movie a big deal as far as comic book movies go? Side note: It's currently being projected to be a $260 million film...putting it as the 3rd most expensive film of all time... Disney needs to recoup Marvel's losses and make up for having to buy the rights for movie deals that were already in place. They've put all their franchise characters, sans the X-Men (and their related characters) into this movie. Its not going to be pretty next May. I'll do everything in my power to see to it that its a failure! (evil laugh) Just because WB wont get off their @ss and use all the characters from the DC universe, instead of just rehashing Batman and Superman every 10 years or so. Since X-men came out in 2000 they remade Superman (meh) and Batman (Christopher Nolan is a genius) while Marvel unleashed their entire portfolio. It took 11 years to go to their next most recognizable property, Green Lantern, which was terrible. Hopefully Wonder Woman is better, I am already writing off the next Green Lantern as Ryan Reynolds is still leading it. WB handling of DC gets a big fail. OH NO YOU DI-INT! Those movies were commercial successes! Prove to me otherwise. Thor was snooze-fest! Captain America looked like Captain Crunch and that ending? REALLY? What exactly do you know of the "handling" of DC? Do tell! I don't mean in a commercial sense. Any movie can be made at a price point that will likely generate a ROI. It is the risk taking approach that marvel has embarked upon as opposed to being beholden to one studio the DC has stayed in. I think marvel had the same arrangement for a good amount of time. But once the rights reverted back to them they went gangbusters on marketing them to various studios. Some have been terrible as well, Daredevil, Elektra, both Fantastic Fours were meh at best. But they have at least opened the vault, and it looks like DC might finally be doing so as well. I am still upset that I didn't get to see the explosion yesterday. I'm in the PNC building, but on the wrong side :(
August 17, 201113 yr I'm not a big comic book movie fan (outside of the new Batman series), so I have what might be a dumb question: Is this Avengers movie a big deal as far as comic book movies go? Side note: It's currently being projected to be a $260 million film...putting it as the 3rd most expensive film of all time... Disney needs to recoup Marvel's losses and make up for having to buy the rights for movie deals that were already in place. They've put all their franchise characters, sans the X-Men (and their related characters) into this movie. Its not going to be pretty next May. I'll do everything in my power to see to it that its a failure! (evil laugh) Just because WB wont get off their @ss and use all the characters from the DC universe, instead of just rehashing Batman and Superman every 10 years or so. Since X-men came out in 2000 they remade Superman (meh) and Batman (Christopher Nolan is a genius) while Marvel unleashed their entire portfolio. It took 11 years to go to their next most recognizable property, Green Lantern, which was terrible. Hopefully Wonder Woman is better, I am already writing off the next Green Lantern as Ryan Reynolds is still leading it. WB handling of DC gets a big fail. OH NO YOU DI-INT! Those movies were commercial successes! Prove to me otherwise. Thor was snooze-fest! Captain America looked like Captain Crunch and that ending? REALLY? What exactly do you know of the "handling" of DC? Do tell! I hope you're joking. Green Lantern was an utter dud compared to Thor or even Captain America, let alone the latest X-Men. I mean Smurfs was a commercial success but I don't think anyone, even a 5-year old, would say it's a better movie than, say, Rise of the Planet of the Apes or something. I know promotion is your thing and all but you gotta take an 'L' for that one. That's like me defending Soul Plane! ------------------- Great photos, btw. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 17, 201113 yr I hope you're joking. Green Lantern was an utter dud compared to Thor or even Captain America, let alone the latest X-Men. I mean Smurfs was a commercial success but I don't think anyone, even a 5-year old, would say it's a better movie than, say, Rise of the Planet of the Apes or something. I know promotion is your thing and all but you gotta take an 'L' for that one. That's like me defending Soul Plane! ------------------- Great photos, btw. HUSH! GL was a fantastic movie and a great way to introduce those who don't know the story into mix. I don't take one for the team. Xmen left me wanting more. However Thor and CA were snoozers! I don't mean in a commercial sense. Any movie can be made at a price point that will likely generate a ROI. It is the risk taking approach that marvel has embarked upon as opposed to being beholden to one studio the DC has stayed in. I think marvel had the same arrangement for a good amount of time. But once the rights reverted back to them they went gangbusters on marketing them to various studios. Some have been terrible as well, Daredevil, Elektra, both Fantastic Fours were meh at best. But they have at least opened the vault, and it looks like DC might finally be doing so as well. I am still upset that I didn't get to see the explosion yesterday. I'm in the PNC building, but on the wrong side :( Nothing can be made that cheap! :P I dont understand what you mean. With Sony buying Marvel Entertainment, they are doing exactly what TW has done with DC comics for the longest time. However, Sony has the added financial burden of buying out distribution rights of previous Marvel productions [Disney wasn't going to do this at first, but they like to control everything] and the projects already in the pipeline since Marvel (for the most part) sought distribution rights on a project by project basis. Meaning they have no leverage on post theatrical distribution or performance. Not to mention the Administrative overhead of not having a HQ and building out sets and office for each production. They had several different entities fight for control over the movie (the marvel studios and marvel Animation were not owned by the same companies). They thought they stop studio cannibalization on the front end, but screwed themselves on the Home Entertainment side of the equation. I dealt with this insanity when we divested the rights to two characters. There is a lot more stuff I could go into, but can't. Disney has a large HE audience, so of course they want to control their properties/Catalog. Which is exactly how DC comics has handled by TW. So what is the difference?
August 17, 201113 yr I hope you're joking. Green Lantern was an utter dud compared to Thor or even Captain America, let alone the latest X-Men. I mean Smurfs was a commercial success but I don't think anyone, even a 5-year old, would say it's a better movie than, say, Rise of the Planet of the Apes or something. I know promotion is your thing and all but you gotta take an 'L' for that one. That's like me defending Soul Plane! ------------------- Great photos, btw. HUSH! GL was a fantastic movie and a great way to introduce those who don't know the story into mix. I don't take one for the team. Xmen left me wanting more. However Thor and CA were snoozers! Now I know you lyin'. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 17, 201113 yr HUSH! GL was a fantastic movie and a great way to introduce those who don't know the story into mix. I don't take one for the team. Xmen left me wanting more. However Thor and CA were snoozers! Not that there's any objective way to measure one movie vs. another, but I think Rotten Tomatoes is a pretty good barometer: Green Lantern - 26% - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/green_lantern/ Captain America: The First Avenger - 79% - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/captain-america/ Thor - 77% - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/thor/ X-Men: First Class - 87% - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/x_men_first_class/
August 17, 201113 yr HUSH! GL was a fantastic movie and a great way to introduce those who don't know the story into mix. I don't take one for the team. Xmen left me wanting more. However Thor and CA were snoozers! Not that there's any objective way to measure one movie vs. another, but I think Rotten Tomatoes is a pretty good barometer: Green Lantern - 26% - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/green_lantern/ Captain America: The First Avenger - 79% - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/captain-america/ Thor - 77% - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/thor/ X-Men: First Class - 87% - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/x_men_first_class/ Jam thanks for the reminder. Addition to my to do list: fire everyone at Flixster.
August 17, 201113 yr This is all well and good, but who owns the rights to Thundarr the Barbarian. THAT's what I'm waiting for. Well, that and the Family Circus. Aside from it being filmed here, I'm finding myself not all that excited about the Avengers movie. I like both Iron Man movies, but other than him, and Scarlett Johansen (with the power of HOT), I'm not all that interested in a Viking, a do Gooder, and Mark Ruffalo trying to save the world. Get me the Super Friends / Justice League movie, dammit. But if you put in Wendy and Marvin and [gag] Wonderdog, MTS, I'm gonna find out where you live and slap the Puerto Rican right out of you.
August 17, 201113 yr This is all well and good, but who owns the rights to Thundarr the Barbarian. THAT's what I'm waiting for. Well, that and the Family Circus. Aside from it being filmed here, I'm finding myself not all that excited about the Avengers movie. I like both Iron Man movies, but other than him, and Scarlett Johansen (with the power of HOT), I'm not all that interested in a Viking, a do Gooder, and Mark Ruffalo trying to save the world. Get me the Super Friends / Justice League movie, dammit. But if you put in Wendy and Marvin and [gag] Wonderdog, MTS, I'm gonna find out where you live and slap the Puerto Rican right out of you. I'm happy it's being filmed in C-Town. I hope it leads to more movies and a growing industry. 2 0 1 3 / 2 0 1 4 Hint...hint But you ain't hear that from me!
August 17, 201113 yr HUSH! GL was a fantastic movie and a great way to introduce those who don't know the story into mix. I don't take one for the team. Xmen left me wanting more. However Thor and CA were snoozers! Not that there's any objective way to measure one movie vs. another, but I think Rotten Tomatoes is a pretty good barometer: Green Lantern - 26% - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/green_lantern/ Captain America: The First Avenger - 79% - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/captain-america/ Thor - 77% - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/thor/ X-Men: First Class - 87% - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/x_men_first_class/ Jam thanks for the reminder. Addition to my to do list: fire everyone at Flixster. And every reviewer? They're just an aggregator. Anyway, Metacritic agrees as well (both critic and user reviews).
August 17, 201113 yr HUSH! GL was a fantastic movie and a great way to introduce those who don't know the story into mix. I don't take one for the team. Xmen left me wanting more. However Thor and CA were snoozers! Not that there's any objective way to measure one movie vs. another, but I think Rotten Tomatoes is a pretty good barometer: Green Lantern - 26% - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/green_lantern/ Captain America: The First Avenger - 79% - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/captain-america/ Thor - 77% - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/thor/ X-Men: First Class - 87% - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/x_men_first_class/ Jam thanks for the reminder. Addition to my to do list: fire everyone at Flixster. And every reviewer? They're just an aggregator. Anyway, Metacritic agrees as well (both critic and user reviews). Yeah, but they need to be revamped/reorganized. Besides, you dont go against family! But seriously, I'm glad you posted that, as I do need to make a trip to their office and evaluate how they fit into our overall LTP.
August 17, 201113 yr I don't mean in a commercial sense. Any movie can be made at a price point that will likely generate a ROI. It is the risk taking approach that marvel has embarked upon as opposed to being beholden to one studio the DC has stayed in. I think marvel had the same arrangement for a good amount of time. But once the rights reverted back to them they went gangbusters on marketing them to various studios. Some have been terrible as well, Daredevil, Elektra, both Fantastic Fours were meh at best. But they have at least opened the vault, and it looks like DC might finally be doing so as well. I am still upset that I didn't get to see the explosion yesterday. I'm in the PNC building, but on the wrong side :( Nothing can be made that cheap! :P I dont understand what you mean. With Sony buying Marvel Entertainment, they are doing exactly what TW has done with DC comics for the longest time. However, Sony has the added financial burden of buying out distribution rights of previous Marvel productions [Disney wasn't going to do this at first, but they like to control everything] and the projects already in the pipeline since Marvel (for the most part) sought distribution rights on a project by project basis. Meaning they have no leverage on post theatrical distribution or performance. Not to mention the Administrative overhead of not having a HQ and building out sets and office for each production. They had several different entities fight for control over the movie (the marvel studios and marvel Animation were not owned by the same companies). They thought they stop studio cannibalization on the front end, but screwed themselves on the Home Entertainment side of the equation. I dealt with this insanity when we divested the rights to two characters. There is a lot more stuff I could go into, but can't. Disney has a large HE audience, so of course they want to control their properties/Catalog. Which is exactly how DC comics has handled by TW. So what is the difference? They do now, but Disney didn't always have control of Marvel. This allowed Marvel to get many of their properties made if there was interest, from them and another party. This is how they got their lesser known properties made; Lionsgate took on Punisher which is not a major property to begin with so it works for them. Is that a type of movie that WB would have made, probably not. And can we please agree that Green Lantern wasn't well received by the public at large? I had thought that was indisputable, regardless if it made money.
August 17, 201113 yr Yeah, but they need to be revamped/reorganized. Besides, you dont go against family! It wouldn't be such a popular site if it wasn't objective.
August 17, 201113 yr It's my job to make you people believers. We're ingrained - via our products and services - into peoples lives, to the point, they don't know how many brands we own, that they pay for, and how they are integrated. And this is why unbridled Capitalism scares me.
August 17, 201113 yr Lots of people out today trying to catch the action. Not much happening though. Lots of flipped over taxis and destroyed cars, trucks and nypd cars. More building pieces as well. I did see a scene with extras dressed up in business suits with brief cases and covered and dirt running and screaming while they had smoke and fire. Only had my terrible camera on my cheap cell phone so here are a couple pictures. There were decent views from Euclid and Prospect but we decided to go to the top of Ameritrust parking garage where there were only like 2 other guys up there. Half of the Prospect side crowd(Way larger crowd on Euclid Avenue)
August 19, 201113 yr so did anyone catch the explosions? or any actual action? or celebrities? if no stay tuned it sounds like there is plenty more to come...!
August 19, 201113 yr Is the guy in the Captain America suit anyone? I saw him today when we passed by while walking downtown. I saw him running on top of some cars and them moving some flipped cars with a fork lift. I thought my son may be interested but a garbage truck drove by and that was it for the movie filming.
August 20, 201113 yr Captain America is Chris Evans, but also "Thor" was supposedly filming today as well. That is Chris Hemsworth. Next week look for Scarlett Johansson filming on Public Square.
August 21, 201113 yr When they filmed transformers 3 outside my office building, the debris from nearby structures was so convincing and beautifully modeled, you could put the foam mockups next to the real thing and the difference was indistinguishable. What's even more sad, is that our movie sets look more real than the disney-esque buildings we see everyday on our lives.
August 22, 201113 yr I have heard of Scarlet Johanson but I thought her name was Charlotte Johanson. My fiance corrected me the other day.
August 22, 201113 yr Scarlett Johannson isn't in Cleveland yet, cause she was having dinner with Ryan Reynolds last night at the restaurant I work at in Hollywood.
August 23, 201113 yr Scarlett Johannson isn't in Cleveland yet, cause she was having dinner with Ryan Reynolds last night at the restaurant I work at in Hollywood. Sometime this week.
August 31, 201113 yr Has anyone else noticed how TERRIBLE the police traffic direction has been during filming (specifically around Playhouse Square)? I found out why today - they're not Cleveland cops, but rather, people hired by the movie producers. The traffic cop director told me that this morning after I called to complain about the "officer" directing traffic at E. 13th and Euclid. Makes so much more sense now, lol.
August 31, 201113 yr its just berzerk around downtown with this shoot, glad i got to see it! -- what a lot of fun and smiling faces everywhere, movie crew workers included :wink2:
August 31, 201113 yr I like how they even transformed an RTA bus into a Stuttgart bus. https://www.instagram.com/cle_and_beyond/https://www.instagram.com/jbkaufer/
September 1, 201113 yr I like how they even transformed an RTA bus into a Stuttgart bus. They made everything on public square German even the Renaissance Hotel!
September 1, 201113 yr Unfortunately, the collapsing storm drain curb in the first mrnyc photo doesn't appear to be filming related. Seriously though, I'd be OK if some of our local storefront designers took a few notes from the set designers...
September 1, 201113 yr Unfortunately, the collapsing storm drain curb in the first mrnyc photo doesn't appear to be filming related. Seriously though, I'd be OK if some of our local storefront designers took a few notes from the set designers... I'm not to sure, there is the possiblitly that equipment, putting props into place, came up on the curb and damaged the storm drain.
September 1, 201113 yr The German additions are hilarious! Guten tag, Cleveburgh!! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 2, 201113 yr Several people on my bus were really disappointed when they found out the Bed, Bath and Beyond in the old East Ohio Gas building was just part of the movie, and not a store going in.
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