Director Antoine Fuqua didn’t grow up in Brooklyn. And he didn’t grow up in South Central L.A., where his other cop drama, Training Day, takes place. He grew up in Pittsburgh, and got his first taste of filming when a TV production moved into his neighborhood. According to Brooklyn’s Finest producer John [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Brownsville'
Conversations With Brooklyn’s Finest, Part Two
July 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments
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Conversations With Brooklyn’s Finest, Part One
July 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Last week, Filming In Brooklyn got the opportunity to spend a day on location in Brownsville with the cast and crew of Brooklyn’s Finest. This movie is being shot almost entirely in Brooklyn, and almost all of it is on location. We were lucky enough to be able to speak at length with [...]
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On Location With Brooklyn’s Finest, Bodega Edition
July 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Yesterday we posted pictures of a scene being shot for Brooklyn’s Finest, of Richard Gere’s cop hearing a gunshot and running into a bodega. After several takes of that shot, they then shot the scene from inside the bodega, looking out to where Mr. Gere’s character was drinking a bottle of water before the [...]
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