Posted May 2, 200817 yr I did not see any other threads discussing the new 3 Doors Down video filmed in Cincinnati so let me know if I missed a previous discussion. From WLWT... Director Shaun Silva, who also shot a Kenny Chesney video here, said Cincinnati is perfect for making a music video because it offers so many possibilities for backdrops. "I think the city comes across looking fantastic and very diverse," Silva said. And that's not all. Silva said part of the reason he didn't shoot this video in New York or Los Angeles was logistical, saying Cincinnati has a lot less red tape to get all the permits and road closures they needed. With the help of the Cincinnati Film Commission, the crew got their Cincinnati permits in just a couple of weeks. Read full article here: http://www.wlwt.com/news/15767844/detail.html Video: YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Local News reaction to video: Where are the steps located that the guy jumps off of in the video? I have seen them before but I can't place them. Are they off Central Parkway in the West End? Also the news report mentions Ault Park being featured but I can't find an Ault Park scene. The band is standing on the Belleville Hill Park pavilion in the shot for those of you that are wondering. Now if there is only a way to get up on the top without a ladder, I will be all over that. It looks like the 8th Street Viaduct closing worked out well for the filming.
May 2, 200817 yr Thanks Randy, since there isn't a separate thread, we will keep this one going. This is the photo I want, without Brad Arnold in it of course: Here are the pavilions in Bellevue Hill Park: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Cincinnati,+OH&ie=UTF8&ll=39.12166,-84.519442&spn=0.001787,0.002511&t=h&z=19
May 2, 200817 yr The steps he jumps off in the beginning are Baymiller St, off of Central Pkwy. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Cincinnati,+OH&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=39.121073,-84.528787&spn=0.001787,0.002511&z=19 Thanks, they look like steps that take you from Central Parkway to Central Avenue. It has been a couple of years since I have wondered down that part of Central Avenue.
May 7, 200817 yr ^ If you search for it on youtube you'll probably find it, otherwise there's an MTV link out there.
May 17, 200817 yr The video is so cool! I missed that thread and found out about the video this morning when I happened to have VH1 on. Here is a working link to the video: http://video.universalrepublic.com/?plid=1481452858&v=1517411297&aid=0 And I believe those are the steps featured in the video:
June 12, 200817 yr Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Film Commission looking to woo $25-50 million movie http://www.soapboxmedia.com/devnews/filmcom.aspx A few weeks ago Soapbox told you about the3 Doors Down video that was shot all over our fair city. She never looked so good and edgy. Here’s your chance to help bring more work like that here. The Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Film Commission is scouting three new projects and are looking for locations to shoot their films. The largest of the three is or a major motion picture with a $25-50 million budget hoping to shoot beginning September 9, 2008 and ending December 9, 2008. They are searching for a large, vacant building or facility to use for (mostly interior) filming during the last half of 2008. The ideal building would be a redtagged building, scheduled for eventual demolition preferably a closed hotel, convention center or institution that is no longer in use. The architecture needs to be relatively modern and something that could easily exist in a deserted Las Vegas. Specifically, they’re looking for hallways, large and small rooms, and a basement. If you have any leads, please contact the commission here - [email protected].
June 12, 200817 yr I can tell you one thing, these filming pour in tons of money to local businesses. Investing in the Film Commission offers a great potential return on investment.
June 28, 200816 yr Screenwriters group goes local L.A.-based association will relocate HQ, annual conference Business Courier of Cincinnati - by Dan Monk The American Screenwriters Association is relocating its headquarters from Hollywood to Cincinnati, where it hopes to tap the local arts and business community to grow its annual script-writing conference and develop new programs to cultivate young talent and promote the development of family-friendly entertainment. Cincinnati's central location, relatively low cost of living and busy airports all weighed in favor of the relocation, said John Johnson, founder of the educational and trade group that claims 40,000 members in 41 countries. "When we did our event in Los Angeles and San Diego, we were always limited by the size of the venue. We'd never been able to accommodate more than a few hundred people. We're looking to expand that to between 300 and 500 in the first year," Johnson said. Read full article here: http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2008/06/30/story8.html
June 28, 200816 yr Does anyone know if any part of the American Girl movie, Kitt Kittredge, was filmed in Cincinnati? It is set in Cincy during the Great Depression.
June 30, 200816 yr ASA Selects Cincinnati as New Headquarters Contributed By Jill Isaacs | Newport Aquarium The American Screenwriters Association (ASA) (www.goasa.com) announced today that it has selected Cincinnati as its new center of operations, from which it will host numerous programs, including its successful International Screenwriters Conference, where writers learn the craft of screenwriting and how to market their TV and film scripts to producers. That conference also includes one-on-one pitch meetings with Hollywood producers looking for scripts. ASA’s Cincinnati base of operations represents a change in strategy that will be a launch pad for educational events, programs and services benefiting members and non-members, as well as the Midwest and East Coast communities, the State of Ohio and the Greater Cincinnati area. ASA will still maintain a presence in Los Angeles. Read full article here: http://rodeo.cincinnati.com/getlocal/gpstory.aspx?id=100054&sid=131892
June 30, 200816 yr Does anyone know if any part of the American Girl movie, Kitt Kittredge, was filmed in Cincinnati? It is set in Cincy during the Great Depression. Sadly it was all filmed in Toronto. My daughter is into the series. The story of Kitt took place in Mt. Adams. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0846308/
June 30, 200816 yr The ASA moving Cincinnati is probably the greatest thing to happen here in the past 30 years. This will attract and draw a more dynamic and diverse crowd from all over the world. All in the name of Entertainment. Whoo Haa!
August 12, 200816 yr Cincinnati reaches for the stars http://www.pulsedt.com/blogs/default.asp?Display=2583 Could Cincinnati be the next Hollywood? Maybe it's not such a stretch, say insiders. Greater Cincinnati is already on the film and TV production track, talent here is immense, and city officials are becoming big advocates of giving Cincinnati a spot in the spotlight, says Kristen Erwin, executive director of the Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky Film Commission based Downtown. "Last week I had seven different networks here," she says. That was before she embarked on a series of meetings with the mayor, city manager, police, firefighters and Fountain Square managers about how the city could make Cincinnati more enticing for film and TV production people. The goal of the meetings, says Erwin, was "to see what we can do collectively to court the people whom we have sold on (this) location." The Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky Film Commission is a non-profit organization designed to lure filmmakers to the region and offer local resources to them whether from its library of locations, local freelancers, hair and makeup people or shops that sell props but it is just one voice in the effort to pull in more production. And production is becoming more common here, Erwin says. "I have seen production pick up," she says. "We're getting a lot of TV production." Evidence is more than what you see, like the pilot filmed partially on Fountain Square a couple of weeks ago (See page 13); the Extreme Makeover home show, MTV's "Made" show and more being filmed rather publicly in Greater Cincinnati. Erwin often must keep secrets about who's filming in town. Interest in filmmaking is emerging from the outsiders, she says, and it is high among local artists, who take film seriously rather than just as a hobby. David Donnelly, a 26-year-old who returned to Cincinnati after filmmaking exposure across the United States including Los Angeles, recently offered a 24 Hour Film School here. The seminar, which Donnelly has provided twice since March because of a great interest among filmmakers in Cincinnati, offered an inside look at the filmmaking industry and how to succeed. He believes Cincinnati has raw talent that only needs some education and support for it to bloom. More evidence of local interest and drive toward making Cincinnati a film center are the film festivals featuring local talent. Think the Lite Brite Film Test, which features inde music and films and attracted inde film wizard John Waters a few weeks ago to the local venue Southgate House, in Newport. The Cincinnati Horror Film Festival of the summer, which provides a place for filmmakers to compete and share new ideas. The 48 Hour Film Project that had local filmmakers traipsing around the city to create, in 48 hours, a movie. Kendall Bruns and Josh Flowers, who in 2004 established Pizza Infinity, a film-production company, won Best Picture in that film project with their team's short film, "Robot Love from Another World." Bruns says Cincinnati is a great place to make movies. "It's beautiful. It's diverse." It offers a host of settings Downtown and within a short radius from the city. "Our locations are fantastic," Erwin echoes. "There is great talent here," Bruns says. "There's a real eagerness and excitement here that you don't see in LA, where everything's happening everywhere." What Cincinnati and Ohio currently lack is simple, say local filmmakers and the Cincinnati Northern Kentucky Film Commission: Tax incentives. "Forty-two states offer major motion picture tax incentives," Erwin says, adding flatly, "Ohio and Kentucky do not." She says she is doing her best to make that change, and she has seen incremental change toward that end in Ohio. "We do have a governor now who reinstated the State Film Office," Erwin says. That office is charged with marketing Ohio to the film industry. "We are working on educating policymakers about how we could have a piece of this pie, if we wanted it," she says. The "if" is the blocker, says Bruns. The audience is here. The setting could work. The interest is developing within Cincinnati government. And the talent is present, say local industry leaders. Whether Cincinnati will ever realize its potential, however, remains a question.
September 2, 200816 yr VH1 show to broadcast from Cincinnati Cable network VH1 will broadcast its popular Top 20 Video Countdown program from Cincinnati later in September. Local arts and music enthusiasts, elected officials and others have been quietly campaigning for months to bring VH1 VJ Alison Becker and her show here to spotlight downtown’s renaissance on the two-hour program. VH1 penetrates 95 million homes, and the Top 20 Video Countdown airs three different times, generating six hours of exposure for Cincinnati on the network. The effort was led by the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Film Commission, Over-the-Rhine based Metaphor Studio LLC and Time Warner Cable of Southwest Ohio. Their hook was the summer-long success of the 3 Doors Down music video “It’s Not My Time,” which was shot entirely in Cincinnati this past March. Read full article here: http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2008/09/01/daily5.html
September 2, 200816 yr 'Opportunity Knocks' In Cincinnati Ever wish you had a chance to have a party at someone else's expense? That's what Michelle and Kevin Jones of Mt. Washington got Tuesday. Michelle had seen some promotions on television asking for people to sign up for block parties. Read full article here: http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=c2437535-2d2c-46ff-a8c6-d943d028146d
March 11, 200916 yr Come to Playhouse in the Park Night at the Esquire Theatre! Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 10:00 pm Watch Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner in the 1941 classic version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. When you see the film you’ll get a voucher for half-price tickets to Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park! Play by Jeffrey Hatcher, based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s timeless tale. In London, in 1887, prominent physician Henry Jekyll incurs the ire of his older colleagues because of his experiments and views. Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and his experiments reveal his evil side, Mr. Hyde. Directed by Victor Fleming. Saturday April 11, 2009 at 10:00 pm At the Esquire Theatre 320 Ludlow Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45220 Movie Line: (513) 281-8750 Tickets are on sale now at the Esquire box office; admission prices are $9.50 for adults & $6.75 for students and seniors. For more information, please visit our events page at www.esquiretheatre.com/EVENTS.htm. For more information about the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, please visit: www.cincyplay.com Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the Robert S. Marx Theatre April 21 – May 22, 2009 Sponsored by WKRQ & CityBeat
March 12, 200916 yr Does anyone know if the VH1 broadcast from Cincinnati can be viewed online anywhere? I'd love to watch it.
May 15, 200916 yr Ohio law changes would be the ticket to draw big movies – and their spending – to Cincinnati Business Courier of Cincinnati - by Lucy May Ohio lawmakers could be just weeks away from adopting a film tax credit to attract more Hollywood productions and their multimillion-dollar budgets to the state. The pending legislation and a similar proposal in Kentucky would put the two states – and the Tri-State – “on a level playing field with other competitive states,” said Kristen Erwin, executive director of the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Film Commission. And, because of the buzz surrounding the proposed Ohio incentives, Erwin left a recent trade show in Los Angeles with a pile of movie scripts unlike anything she’s seen in years, she said. “These scripts will consider us if we have an incentive,” she said. “We have a major motion picture that would begin shooting as early as the fall. And the same line producers are scouting another film in Cincinnati, pending the incentive legislation.” Read full article here: http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/05/18/story2.html
May 16, 200916 yr Unfortunately, Michigan is also pinning its hopes on movies and far fewer movies are made today than even ten years ago.
July 14, 200915 yr Southern Ohio Filmmakers Association growing through technology, social networking, fundraising http://www.soapboxmedia.com/innovationnews/0714film.aspx The growing Southern Ohio Filmmakers Association has harnessed the power of the Internet, with an interactive Web site, blog, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn pages. The ease this allows in networking with filmmakers and their supporters across Greater Cincinnati is mobilizing this segment of the creative class. “When it started nine years ago it numbered fewer than 100. Now, more than 1,300 are on our network, which means they receive notices posted by other members of jobs, events, projects, auditions and requests for help,” said SOFA Board Member Margaret McGurk. “In 2000, when SOFA was formed, the highest number of notices posted in a month was 19, and a lot of those were about the organization. Now it's 35-40 every month.” The non-profit organization, which meets monthly in Oakley supports filmmakers and filmmaking in across Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Among efforts it helps to promote are the College Movie Festival and the 48 Hour Film Project. The organization’s growth, and technological savvy has led to SOFA’s first large-scale fundraiser at the Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center in Covington. The fundraiser on July 14 and 15th , part of Cincinnati World Cinema’s “DocFest,” will raise money for both organizations. The fundraiser will feature the screening of “Taken for A Ride,” a history of the streetcar movement by Wright State University professor and Oscar-nominated documentary maker Jim Klein. That will be followed by Andrea Torrice’s documentary on suburban sprawl “A Crack in the Pavement.” Both filmmakers will be on hand July 14. On July 15, Torrice, Urban Planner Liz Blume and Madeira City Manager Tom Moeller will lead a post-show discussion. The fundraiser will allow the organization to expand and offer training and events for area filmmakers including sponsoring sessions on developing technical skills such as lighting, sound, editing and acting, as well as developing entrepreneurship and business skills. Tickets at the door are $15 tonight and $10 at the door Wednesday. For more information go to Cincinnati World Cinema or call (859) 781-8151.
March 3, 201015 yr Another shooting coming to Cincy. 'Diners, Drive-ins and Dives' staff finds hot food in Cincinnati for Guy Fieri By John Kiesewetter • [email protected] • March 2, 2010 http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20100302/ENT11/303020053/ Food Network executives "have been excited to visit Cincinnati for quite some time," and not just because E.W. Scripps owned the channel until Scripps Networks Interactive was spun off in 2008, Page says. "It's a town with character and personality, which is exactly what we feature," Page says. "And where else could we find people who would think to put chili on spaghetti?"
March 3, 201015 yr Parker's family tree in Cincinnati NBC shows actress how her local German roots branch to both coasts By John Kiesewetter, Cincinnati Enquirer | March 3, 2010 Actress Sarah Jessica Parker admits she didn't know much about her mother's Cincinnati German roots before appearing on NBC's new genealogy show, "Who Do You Think You Are?" (8 p.m. Friday). "My mother was born and raised in Cincinnati's German community, like her parents and grandparents," says Parker, 44, on Friday's premiere. "But I don't think she knows much more about her side of the family than that," says Parker, who started her career as a Cincinnati child actress in the 1970s. TV's former "Sex and the City" star came back to Cincinnati last year to find out more about her roots at the request of Lisa Kudrow, the former "Friends" actress whose company produces the NBC genealogy series. Read full article here: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100303/ENT/3040301/1055/NEWS/Sarah+Jessica+traces+local+roots
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