Filming In Brooklyn

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice was filming scenes at a Park Slope subway station yesterday when a real fire broke out on the same block.  According to the website In My Backyard, the fire completely destroyed Grace Cleaners at 511 9th Street, and damaged the apartments upstairs. A couple of commenters on the brownstoner website confused the [...]

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Warren Leight, executive producer for HBO’s In Treatment, says that the show will be moving back to California for next season if NYS’s tax incentive program for filming here isn’t funded soon, according to the NY Post.  In Treatment employs 70 people locally, and stars Gabriel Byrne and Dianne Wiest. The Post article also reports [...]

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A New York prop rental company, Props for Today, appears to be the latest casualty of the loss of the state’s filming tax incentive program.  While the tax mess isn’t the sole reason for the company’s impending Chapter 11 filing, it was the last straw.  “The decrease of film making and television in New York, [...]

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