December 11, 200816 yr After talking with the staffers last night (who were celebrating at Bar Cento), this is a permanent thing for CIFF. They were very happy, to say the least.
January 26, 200916 yr The folks from white flower cake in beachwood are on the Food Network Cake challenge. www.whiteflowercake.com I'm not a big fan of there products, but hey I wanted to show them some love!
January 26, 200916 yr Sorry folks - I moved some of the followup comments to the "Cleveland Restaurant/Tavern/etc. - discovery" thread. clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
February 9, 200916 yr Out of Place: an insiders perspective on the small, underground surfing community in Cleveland. http://www.wviz.org/index.php/WVIZ/applause/ The action starts at the 9:20 mark.
February 19, 200916 yr Anybody catch the Cleveland centric 'Criminal Minds' last night. The police cars appeared to have the proper logos, however the uniforms were not even close.
February 19, 200916 yr Anybody catch the Cleveland centric 'Criminal Minds' last night. The police cars appeared to have the proper logos, however the uniforms were not even close. No, but perhaps I'll stream it while I'm eating lunch today :)
February 19, 200916 yr Yeah my sister called me about it (I posted in accidentally in Off-topic). Anyways, they referenced "Cedar Park," "CuYOGA," and "Edgewater Creek." I dind't see any shots of Cleveland.
February 19, 200916 yr Yeah my sister called me about it (I posted in accidentally in Off-topic). Anyways, they referenced "Cedar Park," "CuYOGA," and "Edgewater Creek." I dind't see any shots of Cleveland. Sometimes names have to be changed because the production didn't obtain the proper rights. To me it seems they didn't work didn't work with the film commision to make sure that the proper names were used.
February 19, 200916 yr How was the city of Cleveland portrayed? Barren deserted crime ridden rustbelt crap or more like 30 Rock :)
February 19, 200916 yr From what I watched, ney to both descriptions. Besides the fact they were investigating a murder, I thought they portrayed Cleveland in a fairly decent fashion (I think I'm saying "decent" because it wasn't negative). The killer seemed like a kid who would hang out in Coventry, the bar was set out of a scene from a Lakewood bar, and the fbuddy was a decent looking chick. I forgot they did talk about the Main Street bridge. I only watched from like :35-55, so I could have missed a lot. **I've never seen 30 Rock. You're right, if it's not Three's Company, I hate sitcoms.
February 19, 200916 yr From what I watched, ney to both descriptions. Besides the fact they were investigating a murder, I thought they portrayed Cleveland in a fairly decent fashion (I think I'm saying "decent" because it wasn't negative). The killer seemed like a kid who would hang out in Coventry, the bar was set out of a scene from a Lakewood bar, and the fbuddy was a decent looking chick. I forgot they did talk about the Main Street bridge. I only watched from like :35-55, so I could have missed a lot. **I've never seen 30 Rock. You're right, if it's not Three's Company, I hate sitcoms. LAWD Get out of the 70's dude!
February 23, 200916 yr Cleveland is on 48 hours: Hard Evidence In the early morning hours, Romona "Mona" Krotine left an office party just outside Cleveland, Ohio, and was never seen alive again. Nearly a day later, she was found in the trunk of her car, beaten and shot to death. Who was to blame? It's on TLC
February 23, 200916 yr I saw it. I dont even remember this case. Most of the jury said that they thought he was guilty, but didnt have enough evidence to convict him. Downtown looked nice!
February 23, 200916 yr I saw it. I dont even remember this case. Most of the jury said that they thought he was guilty, but didnt have enough evidence to convict him. Downtown looked nice! Yeah the streetscape was very nice and clean.
February 23, 200916 yr If you haven't seen the 30 rock episode on Cleveland here is the intro that they used. Its about 3 min and is all about Cleveland. I thought it was pretty cool when I first saw it and is worth a few minutes just to see the intro in the link below if you don't wanna see the whole show.
March 18, 200916 yr Lease signed to create film studio and soundstage in Cleveland Convention Center by Julie E. Washington/Plain Dealer Reporter Tuesday March 17, 2009, 4:30 PM .....
March 22, 200916 yr Saw "Duplicity" this weekend .. highly recommended. It's a really fun movie, and the chemistry between Clive Owen and Julia Roberts is great. Cleveland features in it for about 5 seconds. Okay .. a bit longer than that, but I doubt the actual city was used for longer than that. They talk about it, kinda take pot shots at it, yadda yadda. But go see the movie regardless.
March 23, 200916 yr Saw Duplicity today. I don't even think the brief shot of "Cleveland" was even Cleveland. I need to wait for DVD and still the picture. As far as the movie, eh. It wasn't worth the 12 bucks I paid at the Hollywood Arclight, but would be worth it for 5 or 6 bucks.
March 25, 200916 yr Not sure where else to put this, but last night I noticed the terminal and key towers in the background of TNT's inside the NBA set. The background is a composite skyline made up of buildings from a few cities. The terminal and key towers are near the middle and side by side. I thought it was pretty cool.
March 26, 200916 yr no kidding? it is very cool to 'make' one those composite skylines. usually it's mostly the st. louis arch and the space needle.
April 1, 200916 yr Holy crap- a definite must see for Cleveland urban aficionados that I can't believe I hadn't even heard of until recently. My apologies if it was discussed earlier in the thread, but I just saw it and was blown away. It's Jules Dassin's 1968 "Up Tight." It's a loose retelling of the 1935 John Ford movie "The Informer," but is set among black militants in Hough instead of Irish revolutionaries in Dublin. The movie was filmed on location in Hough in 1968 and is full of amazing, colorful (literally and figuratively) streetscapes that are now loooooong gone. The final scenes in the movie are in the flats amidst the heavy industry. The acting is way overwrought and the story a little flimsy, but it's still pretty compelling, and is 100% worth seeing just for all the footage of 1968 Cleveland and the awesome Booker T & the MGs soundtrack. I don't think it's on DVD yet (I saw it at a Cinematheque-like place), but it will be someday, and I know it's popped up at at the Cinematheque as recently as last year: http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/03/up_tight_a_1968_film_shot_in_c.html Here's the original NYTimes 1968 review of the movie: http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F03E3DF1430E034BC4152DFB4678383679EDE
April 3, 200916 yr Just a little blurb from the AP arictle of the Cavs game last night...an extra 2 million viewers isn't bad: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "James' appearance on "60 Minutes" on Sunday was the highest rated segment of the CBS newsmagazine. It drew a 10.7 rating (17,354,000 viewers), a rating 26 percent higher than the rest of the show (8.5 rating), according to Nielsen Media Research." http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ji1f1lcjvBNQPBYnKRX9GktFW1kgD97ANP280
April 15, 200916 yr <a href="http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=111541&catid=3">'The Soloist' movie set to open, some scenes filmed in Cleveland</a> Posted By: Kim Wendel Updated: 4/15/2009 3:28:56 PM Posted: 4/14/2009 12:39:31 PM It's been exactly one year since a Dreamworks SKG film crew and actor Jamie Foxx came to Cleveland to film several scenes for the movie "The Soloist." Now "The Soloist" is set to open nationwide next week on April 24. Slide show of images from the film shoot ......
April 17, 200916 yr This sounds really cool. I love all of the exposure we're getting with the Cavs success. http://www.whatsthediff.com/2009/04/ever-hear-of-the-price-is-right-its-only-the-most-successful-game-show-in-tv-history-with-a-30-year-run-on-cbs-the-sh.html The Price is Right: Quicken Loans family companies Cleveland Cavaliers and Fathead get in on the game The Quicken Loans DIFF: Cleveland Cavaliers and Fathead on the Price is Right! Ever hear of The Price is Right? It’s only the most successful game show in TV history, with a 30+ year run on CBS! The show is now hosted by Cleveland native and REAL.BIG. Cleveland sports fan Drew Carey! Well, our Quicken Loans siblings over at Fathead and the Cleveland Cavaliers worked their magic, coming up with an amazing Fathead and Cleveland Cavaliers prize package that will be featured on The Price is Right not just once, but twice, in the next few weeks! Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 14th, lucky contestants will play for the opportunity to win the Fathead/Cavaliers package as the coveted Showcase Showdown! The package includes: an all expense paid trip to Cleveland to watch the Cavs in the NBA Play Offs from courtside seats (plus behind-the-scenes tours), two Fathead XZipit luxury recliners with favorite team logos, a pair of LeBron James Fathead wall graphics, Fathead PDA skins, memorabilia and much more! Then, in an episode airing on MAY 5th, during the NBA playoffs, contestants have a chance to win it again. Yep, Drew had so much fun with it the first time, they decided to tape a second episode … the second one also will feature Drew Carey having some Fathead fun during half-time at The Q! Check your local TV listings to determine the time and CBS station it will air on in your area: http://www.tvguide.com/.
April 17, 200916 yr Wow, the dude from Tuesday WAY overbid. Drew was so disappointed. Guess I'll have to DVR the May 5th episode.
April 17, 200916 yr GREAT marketing idea! Relatively cheap too on the cost side for national exposure.
April 18, 200916 yr Wow, the dude from Tuesday WAY overbid. Drew was so disappointed. Guess I'll have to DVR the May 5th episode. That could be a great tourism commercial: Have Drew list all of our assets, with the cheesy background montage, then have the "contestants" overbid on a surprisingly affordable vacation to beautiful Cleveland, OH.
April 28, 200916 yr Sounds like an interesting piece. "Frontline" examines what happens to mentally ill prisoners released in Ohio Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Mark Dawidziak Plain Dealer Television Critic ......
April 28, 200916 yr interesting and very true how jails are now the new state asylums. on a more light-hearted note -- there is a true story of a state insane asylum that was closed or mostly closed, i think its millegeville in georgia, and anyway having no where to go all the residents just stayed in the town. can you imagine? heh. 'king of hearts' is another good french movie along those lines -- the nazi's are coming so the town evacuates and the local lunatic asylum inmates take it over.
April 28, 200916 yr Plain Dealer article on "The Released" Frontline page on "The Released" Frontline page on "The New Asylums"
April 28, 200916 yr Saw a cool new Vitamin Water commercial featuring LeBron and Kobe, Cleveland backgrounds used in half the scenes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_g4OPlPvwU
April 28, 200916 yr Yeah I saw that commercial, I like the gritty nature they show Cleveland in. I know it's not always the most complimentary scene, "rust belt" and all, but I think it is true Cleveland in many respects. Great press though for the city, you have to think people round the world only know of Cleveland because of "King James".
April 28, 200916 yr That is awesome. Beautiful. I, for one, think that Cleveland's industrial landscape is beautiful in its own way. I don't think it should be completely forsaken.
April 28, 200916 yr So THAT'S what they were filming down on Quigley a while back! I drove by on the way to Steelyard and saw four squad cars with lights on and about a dozen or so people milling about with cameras/filming equipment and a few trailers like you'd see on a studio lot. Didn't see LeBron, but oh well - after seeing it, it looks like they were only filming the guy saying "filthy vicious, ridiculous". clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
April 28, 200916 yr love it -- and hey the clev looked better/cooler than la did....which it is! Minus the shopping.
April 28, 200916 yr maybe i missed something, but i didn't notice the shopping being any better or worse in either place in that. :roll:
April 28, 200916 yr maybe i missed something, but i didn't notice the shopping being any better or worse in either place in that. ::) HUSH!
April 29, 200916 yr The guy standing outside the truck with the 216 shirt on who says about Lebron "He's the best finisher there is" is a friend of mine. His name is Drew and he's the doorguy at Beauty Bar in Hollywood. He knows I'm a Clevelander and a few weeks ago he told me he just filmed a commercial where he had to play a guy from Cleveland. I didn't realize this was it. Of course the Cleveland backdrop in his scene was put in later cause he filmed on a soundstage in LA. The irony is that he's from Boston and he can't stand the Cavs! Our mutual hatred for each others sports teams makes for some lively debate at 1 in the morning.
April 29, 200916 yr The guy standing outside the truck with the 216 shirt on who says about Lebron "He's the best finisher there is" is a friend of mine. His name is Drew and he's the doorguy at Beauty Bar in Hollywood. He knows I'm a Clevelander and a few weeks ago he told me he just filmed a commercial where he had to play a guy from Cleveland. I didn't realize this was it. The irony is that he's from Boston and he can't stand the Cavs! Our mutual hatred for each others sports teams makes for some lively debate at 1 in the morning. So did they film him in LA and "green screen" him onto a shot of Cleveland?
April 29, 200916 yr Anyone watch the Frontline documentary on the mentally ill that were released in Ohio as part of deinstitutionalization? I caught the last 20 minutes. It was really well-done, yet incredibly depressing and sad.
April 30, 200916 yr <a href=http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/04/some_worry_medical_mart_deal_c.html>Some fear medical mart deal could damage local film industry</a> Posted by Joe Guillen/Plain Dealer Reporter April 29, 2009 17:45PM http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/04/large_film.jpg John Kuntz/The Plain Dealer A film crew gets ready to shoot an action scene for "Spider-Man 3" in Playhouse Square in [br]2006. The filmmakers were persuaded to film in Cleveland in part because they were able [br]to get space in the Cleveland Convention Center for building props and sets. Ivan Schwarz, executive director of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission, contends that the downtown center is just the kind of space that filmmakers want -- but rarely find outside of Hollywood -- for use as movie soundstages. ........
May 7, 200916 yr http://www.realmovienews.com/news/2243 Headline: Three join Hensleigh's The Irishman 7th May 2009 Posted by: Paul Variety reports that Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken and Val Kilmer have all been cast in The Irishman for director Jonathan Hensleigh. The project is based on the life of mobster Danny Greene (Stevenson), who lorded over Cleveland's criminal underworld during the late 1970s. Walken will play infamous loan-sharking nightclub owner Shondor Birns, and Kilmer will portray a Cleveland cop who befriends Greene. Shooting kicks off in just over a week in Detroit. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://uk.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUKTRE5460K920090507 Crime saga "Irishman" nabs Walken and Kilmer Thu May 7, 2009 3:47am BST Email | Print | Share| Single Page[-] Text [+] By Jay A. Fernandez LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken and Val Kilmer will play the leads in "The Irishman," which is based on the real story of mobster Danny Greene. Greene was a violent Irish-American gangster who competed with the Italian mob in 1970s Cleveland and ended up provoking a countrywide turf war that crippled the Mafia. Stevenson will play Greene. Walken will play the loan shark and nightclub owner Shondor Birns, and Kilmer is cast as a Cleveland police detective who befriends Greene. Jonathan Hensleigh, who co-wrote and directed "The Punisher," will direct the action film. He and Jeremy Walters ("Dali") wrote the screenplay, which is inspired by the book "To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia" by Rick Porrello. Code Entertainment is producing the film. (Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)
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