Movies made in Pittsburgh and PA

[Wes R]

I thought this would be a fun one for us PA folks and others to try and name movies that were filmed at least in part in PA and Pittsburgh. The radio said that 60 productions had been in the state shooting stuff.

The Road: they used Presqe Isle state park in erie, a good bit of Pittsburgh and other parts

That new movie with Russel Crowe: There was a piece about how much he
liked Pittsburgh, he biked the town on his days off, on the news.

Flashdance of course

Tiger Warsaw: filmed locally at a sports bar.

Inspector Gadget: I got to see this one filmed when i was in art school.

Night of the living dead and the remake

dawn of the dead: there are clippings about it all over the monroeville mall

The Crazies (original).

And nearly every other early Romero zombie/horror movie. I think he filmed Monkey Shines there as well as Creepshow II (or at least his chunk).

 

[Bootlegger137]

Philadelphia/Eastern PA area movies off the top of my head:

Sniper
Witness
Trading Places
Philadelphia
Signs
Gettysburg
Rocky (all of them)
Sixth Sense
Blow Out

EDIT: Forgot about National Treasure

 

[.:MirrorminD:.]

Ill add a few:

Lady in the Lake -Levittown/Bristol
Signs - Newtown
Devil - new comcast building in Philly
Transformers 2 - Scranton, Philly, Eastern State Penn, Rittenhouse Square, South Street, and Princeton, NJ
The Happening - Princeton, NJ, Rittenhouse Square
The Deer Hunter
Robocop - Wheeling Steel Mill - Pittsburgh
Groundhog Day
Silence of the Lambs - Pittsburgh - Carnegie Mellon *I think
Dogma - Pittsburgh airport
Witness
The Village - Chester County
The Mothman Prophecies - the bridge in the film is out by Pittsburgh
Striking Distance - Pittsburgh
Desperate Measures - Pittsburgh
12 Monkeys - Philly

Thats all the ones I could think of, I know im missing tons though

 

[Qui-Gonzalez]

Striking Distance with Bruce Willis and Sarah Jessica Parker.

 

[.:MirrorminD:.]

post retracted since I wasnt 100% sure of a movie

 

[Wes R]

I can't believe I forgot striking distance. They filmed parts of batman and batman forever there? I didn't know that. It's like that with a lot of movies, unless you look at the credits you never realize that they shoot in a lot of places and then piece it together. This thread will be a good one for me to make a list of movies to rent lol. I totally forgot some of them.

 

[.:MirrorminD:.]

Plus whatever movie Bradley Cooper and Al Pacino were working on a few months ago, they filmed that in Philly and Abington. My fiance' met Cooper and Zelwigger in Starbucks on her way to work lol

EDIT: I dunno why I put batman forever, I ment to put just the first one,...they did some exterior shots for the film in Pittsburgh

 

[Wes R]

That's the one thing PA, or at least western PA, has going for it. The jobs suck but its really not that expensive to live compared to most places as long as you like farmland. We need some more post apocalyptic movies (not like the stinking pile The Road) filmed around with all the old farms, factories, and forests around here you could do a really good one.

 

[Heimidal]

FYI...since I was born and bred in the 'Burgh here's a VERY good list you all might not know about:

Pittsburgh Film Office :: Filmography

 

[Wes R]

That's handy. I'd never thought of that. And you calling it the 'Burgh is proof enough that you're from there lol.

 

[.:MirrorminD:.]

I lived in Pitt for 3 yrs and couldn't wait to get out of there lol. I went to U of Pitt and lived in South Side, Oakland, and Squirrel Hill. But they were always filming up there, on some movies they paid me decent as an extra - but then again i was a poor college student so anything sounded good lol

 

[Wes R]

lol. Its a great place to visit. the thing is all the interesting stuff is in the outlying small towns where you have the little shops, diners and stuff. Downtown is crap.

 

[.:MirrorminD:.]

lol. Its a great place to visit. the thing is all the interesting stuff is in the outlying small towns where you have the little shops, diners and stuff. Downtown is crap.

And thats what I think was my biggest problem with Pitt. Sicne my whole life I lived just outside of Philly. In downtown Pitt there is nothing to do there at night, in fact its pretty much a ghost town after 8pm. Unlike with Philly where youhave houses, apartments, and whatnot in center city along with stores and bars, clubs,..etc. Pitt doesnt have any of that for the most part. Everything is on the outskirts of downtown.

 

[Wes R]

Anymore it's 5pm. Most of the college kids complained about it. I lived 45 minutes out and the bus service sucked so it didn't really matter lol. It's even worse now that they were about to cut 35% of the bus service until the governor magically made cash appear. I remember that inspector gadget caused issues because the bridge scene shut down the main route for kids to get to and from the school housing and it was october/November when they were filming.

 

[Amish Trooper]

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

 

[BDK]

Yea the filmography site covered it quite well.

The Silence of the Lambs used the Carngie History Museum as a stand in for the Smithsonean, its one of the few times ways to see the OLD OLD Dinosaur Hall with the scientifically incorrect T-Rex painting. They also used a day care from Rural Valley PA for the funeral scenes and a few extras from town as the deputies.


I love how we're getting so many movies being made here in the area, I never knew about Robocop or Batman though.

 

[.:MirrorminD:.]

OOh forgot another one:

The Italian Job - All the scenes when they first visit Charlize Theron; they were filmed near and around City Hall in Philly and they had a lot of aerial shots filmed from the Ben Franklin bridge

 

[Solo4114]

Wasn't the Wheeling Steel Mill also featured in Darkman?

Parts of Transformers 2 were shot in Philly, too.

 

[Rylo]

"The Fish that saved Pittsburgh" :confused

 

[the_batdemon]

Two that were filmed in the 'burgh while I was there..
Kingpin..used a Northside bowling alley among other locations
Sudden Death at the old Igloo,

Mirror, are you sure about Batman? I'd heard the were all studio or back lot either in UK, L.A. or Mexico(for Returns). I know after returns they were scouting for the 3rd movie, but after Keaton and Burton left, I thought that fell through.