Hey there sorry no updates in a while, I have been rather busy. I wanted to give you all a heads up on some things coming to the city to film over the next couple months. For those of you who have not heard yet, M. Night Shyamalan is returning to the city to film his new big film, After Earth starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith at the end of this month. From what I hear it is kind of a post apocolytic film and there will not be very many extras involved besides for army type people. The production is currently taking play in Costa Rica and is said to reach Philadelphia by the end of February. One known location for the film is the Budd Manufacturing Facility at 2450 W. Hunting Park Ave in North Philly. Stay tuned for more information about this project.
The best news of all, Shyamalan's film is not the only thing filming here over the next year, many other productions are coming to the city, many of them are large productions! Another movie set to film in Philadelphia for a 40 day shoot is Dead Man Down, directed by Niels Arden Oplev (director of the original Girl With The Dragon Tattoo). This New York-set mob movie will star Colin Farell and Noomi Rapace.
There are also two television shows to be shot in the area. The first is Do No Harm, a NBC medical drama about a doctor struggleomg with his alter ego in a Jekyll and Hyde type relationship. The other series will be titled Political Animals which will poke fun at notable political figures.
The Philadelphia film office will also be launching a new website on February 14 so make sure to check that out.
If you want more information for anything I mentioned here be sure to check out UWISHUNU
Friday, February 10, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Damages and Pan Am Set Visit
Hey everyone! I thought I would share a little insight I gathered over the past week during my trip to New York City. I had planned on visiting at least one set during my stay in the city, but I would have never guessed that a set would come to me!
On the first day of my trip, I decided I wanted to visit the set of Pan Am since I always wanted to see a period piece filming. When I arrived on the set, they were filming inside of a building in Harlem and just about to go to lunch, however I did see many 1960s cars lining one of the side streets. I took a few pictures and decided to go explore the city. I tried to find the set for Gossip Girl, but I couldn't so I just kind of gave up. I am PhillyFilmGirl after all.
I thought that would be the extent of my set visits during my time in New York, but I never expected to find one in the very hotel I was staying at. All day on thursday, there was a production company at the Travel Inn filming the FX television show, Damages. From what I could tell they were filming there for about 12 hours. They began with a scene inside of the parking garage...I could not really take any pictures of that, but I managed to get a few of the equipment.
That night, when I returned to the hotel and exited the elevator, I kind of accidently walked into the middle of the set where I saw two actors in an open room getting their makeup done. 
I was exited off set and returned to my room. There was a lot of equipment located all over the hotel and it seemed as though the production rented out many rooms to ensure they would be vacant during filming. I thought this was a really fun coincedience and it was a nice change for a set to come to me. And let me add once again, I DID NOT know this was filming in my hotel when I booked the room over two months ago, it was a total suprise which I thought was really cool.
While walking around the city, I was able to spot at least three other random productions by the Haddads trucks. New York City is always full of film and television productions and anyone would be sure to find something filming during any given time.
On the first day of my trip, I decided I wanted to visit the set of Pan Am since I always wanted to see a period piece filming. When I arrived on the set, they were filming inside of a building in Harlem and just about to go to lunch, however I did see many 1960s cars lining one of the side streets. I took a few pictures and decided to go explore the city. I tried to find the set for Gossip Girl, but I couldn't so I just kind of gave up. I am PhillyFilmGirl after all.
I thought that would be the extent of my set visits during my time in New York, but I never expected to find one in the very hotel I was staying at. All day on thursday, there was a production company at the Travel Inn filming the FX television show, Damages. From what I could tell they were filming there for about 12 hours. They began with a scene inside of the parking garage...I could not really take any pictures of that, but I managed to get a few of the equipment.
That night, when I returned to the hotel and exited the elevator, I kind of accidently walked into the middle of the set where I saw two actors in an open room getting their makeup done. I was exited off set and returned to my room. There was a lot of equipment located all over the hotel and it seemed as though the production rented out many rooms to ensure they would be vacant during filming. I thought this was a really fun coincedience and it was a nice change for a set to come to me. And let me add once again, I DID NOT know this was filming in my hotel when I booked the room over two months ago, it was a total suprise which I thought was really cool.While walking around the city, I was able to spot at least three other random productions by the Haddads trucks. New York City is always full of film and television productions and anyone would be sure to find something filming during any given time.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
New York City Trip!
Hey I am planning on posting all about my EPIC New York trip over the next few days. I visited two different sets and explored the city so much, I would make Dora proud. For now, check out this funny video I made that summarizes a lot of the things I did in the city. Stay tuned because tomorrow I am giving you all exclusive Damages and Pan Am information and stories directly from the New York sets!
New York City Trip January 11-14, 2012 from ashley sindaco on Vimeo.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Philadelphia's Running of the Santas 2011
Hey everyone! Welcome back!
So during the downtime between film shoots in the city I figure I will just post some things about fun stuff I do in this city. Since the holidays are rapidly approaching, I figured I would take part in this year's Running of the Santas with a friend of mine.
Of course, I supplied the Santa costumes for the event and tried to look as festive as possible. We arrived at Finnegan's Wake Bar around 4pm after walking around the city for a little while. 
There were over 2000 drunken Santas awaiting their trip down to Festival Pier. 
Everyone in attendence was dressed in their best holiday costumes. I was suprised to see many Buddy the Elfs, my favorite Christmas movie is of course Elf. One 'Santa' even had a beer tree, yes a beer tree. 
As soon as it was time to start the three block trip down to Festival Pier, many of them started off running, but people kind of slowed down due to heavy drinking I suppose. 
It was really enjoyable to watch. We went into Festival Pier for about fifteen minutes, but people were too drunk and ridiculous, so we ended up leaving and going to enjoy ourselves downtown which was way better than getting crushed under creepy Santas and half clothed Santa Babys. All in all, the event was really something to witness and the run itself was the fun part of the day.
There were over 2000 drunken Santas awaiting their trip down to Festival Pier. Everyone in attendence was dressed in their best holiday costumes. I was suprised to see many Buddy the Elfs, my favorite Christmas movie is of course Elf. One 'Santa' even had a beer tree, yes a beer tree. As soon as it was time to start the three block trip down to Festival Pier, many of them started off running, but people kind of slowed down due to heavy drinking I suppose. It was really enjoyable to watch. We went into Festival Pier for about fifteen minutes, but people were too drunk and ridiculous, so we ended up leaving and going to enjoy ourselves downtown which was way better than getting crushed under creepy Santas and half clothed Santa Babys. All in all, the event was really something to witness and the run itself was the fun part of the day.Friday, November 25, 2011
Celebrity Appearances: Kel Mitchell at Club 27 in Old City November 23, 2011
Hey everyone! I hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving and I hope you all got some quality time with your family.
But this post is all about the night before Thanksgiving, the biggest party night of the year. I decided to go to Club 27 in Old City to celebrate with my friend Mike because I heard that Kel Mitchell (Good Burger, All That) was going to make an appearance at an orange party.
I love theme parties, so of course my friend and I wore orange shirts. When we got there at around 11pm, there was about 10 people there, no lie. Maybe one other person was in orange. Since the party was 18 to enter, 21 to drink, we decided to go the 21 section upstairs where we found maybe 5 more people. While we were waiting for Kel to make an appearance, a girl approached us and asked if we wanted to meet Kel, so we said sure. She then took us upstairs to meet Kel.
He was actually a pretty cool guy. I tried to get a short video with him, but the music was way too loud to get anything. I asked him how many bottles of orange soda he has had in his life and he said that he had about 20,000 and that its alright. I got a quick picture with him and went back downstairs.
By the time he came out around 12:45, there was about 25 people in the club.
He was out for about 20 minutes, did some of his most memorable lines from his shows, and then kind of went back upstairs and hung out. Oh he also expressed his love for orange soda.
It was actually my first time going out on Thanksgiving eve and although I got to meet Kel Mitchell, I was kind of suprised by the lack of people in the club. I thought it was the biggest party night of the year, and for only about 30 people to show up is crazy. I even think half of the people in the club worked there. There was an entire other room with a DJ with NO ONE inside except for him...no one was even bartending in that room. The club itself was really cool and the DJ was great in my opinion, just not very crowded. I mean for an orange party only about five people including Kel himself were even wearing orange. There was supposed to be an orange soda chugging contest and the winner was going to get $200, but the club was not even serving orange soda and there was NO contest. There was also supposed to be an orange outfit contest with another $200 winner, but again, nothing. I guess it was because of the lack of people in the club which was not really cool.
But this post is all about the night before Thanksgiving, the biggest party night of the year. I decided to go to Club 27 in Old City to celebrate with my friend Mike because I heard that Kel Mitchell (Good Burger, All That) was going to make an appearance at an orange party.
I love theme parties, so of course my friend and I wore orange shirts. When we got there at around 11pm, there was about 10 people there, no lie. Maybe one other person was in orange. Since the party was 18 to enter, 21 to drink, we decided to go the 21 section upstairs where we found maybe 5 more people. While we were waiting for Kel to make an appearance, a girl approached us and asked if we wanted to meet Kel, so we said sure. She then took us upstairs to meet Kel.He was actually a pretty cool guy. I tried to get a short video with him, but the music was way too loud to get anything. I asked him how many bottles of orange soda he has had in his life and he said that he had about 20,000 and that its alright. I got a quick picture with him and went back downstairs.
By the time he came out around 12:45, there was about 25 people in the club.He was out for about 20 minutes, did some of his most memorable lines from his shows, and then kind of went back upstairs and hung out. Oh he also expressed his love for orange soda.
It was actually my first time going out on Thanksgiving eve and although I got to meet Kel Mitchell, I was kind of suprised by the lack of people in the club. I thought it was the biggest party night of the year, and for only about 30 people to show up is crazy. I even think half of the people in the club worked there. There was an entire other room with a DJ with NO ONE inside except for him...no one was even bartending in that room. The club itself was really cool and the DJ was great in my opinion, just not very crowded. I mean for an orange party only about five people including Kel himself were even wearing orange. There was supposed to be an orange soda chugging contest and the winner was going to get $200, but the club was not even serving orange soda and there was NO contest. There was also supposed to be an orange outfit contest with another $200 winner, but again, nothing. I guess it was because of the lack of people in the club which was not really cool.But still, I had a good time and recommend people to go to Club 27 as they do have a lot of celebrity guests all throughout the year including Sean Paul and they also have frequent Q102 broadcasts. Check them out at their website.
If you are visiting my site from another state, you too can see Kel Mitchell while he makes his 'All Orange Everything' tour across America.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Silver Linings Playbook Weekend Update for November 13
Welcome back! I am kind of dissapointed because I missed a bit of good filming last night. The production finally wrapped at the 9th and Sansom location in the city around 3am. Filming took place outside and they had the set looking like Christmas. I would have loved to see it but I hear that security was still really tight downtown.
I wanted to try to go to the set tomorrow, but I think I have to work, so I figure I would share some information with you guys instead. Filming continues tomorrow and the cast and crew are back in Upper Darby. The production returns to the 200 block of Madison Avenue and will remain there until Monday. Call time for the crew tomorrow is 9am which means that filming should begin around 12 if not earlier. Following that, they return to Chestnut Street in the city. I believe they have about a little over a week to go on the shoot. If you happen to go feel free to send me your pictures. I have to work tomorrow, but I want to try to visit the set if I can. Until later!
I wanted to try to go to the set tomorrow, but I think I have to work, so I figure I would share some information with you guys instead. Filming continues tomorrow and the cast and crew are back in Upper Darby. The production returns to the 200 block of Madison Avenue and will remain there until Monday. Call time for the crew tomorrow is 9am which means that filming should begin around 12 if not earlier. Following that, they return to Chestnut Street in the city. I believe they have about a little over a week to go on the shoot. If you happen to go feel free to send me your pictures. I have to work tomorrow, but I want to try to visit the set if I can. Until later!
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Silver Linings Update for Wednesday November 9
Hey everyone!
Just a little update on the Silver Linings Playbook film currently shooting in Philadelphia. If you happen to wonder down to Lincoln Financial Field tomorrow, then you might see some action! (and some lights and cameras too!). The film is currently shooting at the Linc for a pre game tailgaiting scene. I went down to the set today, but sadly as soon as I got there, they wrapped, just my luck. Tomorrow I hear is a much longer day (they only shot for three hours today). There will be a lot more people there tomorrow as well.
If you have the chance to go down to the stadium, try to fit in with the crowd, do not stand out! I suggest wearing something Eagles related (if they survived the fireplace after last night's game). I went down today and wore Eagles gear and walked right into the middle of the set. Robert Deniro and Bradley Cooper were on set today, but I did not see them. Deniro was driving around in an old Cadillac with a bunch of cameras on the car. It actually just looks like a game day there, but obviously it is not. The set up is pretty large so just kind of wander through if you get the chance.
Here is a picture of the set I took today. As you can see, it just looks like typical tailgaiting pre Eagles game.
I am trying to get to the set around 9:30am so maybe you will see me there.
Just a little update on the Silver Linings Playbook film currently shooting in Philadelphia. If you happen to wonder down to Lincoln Financial Field tomorrow, then you might see some action! (and some lights and cameras too!). The film is currently shooting at the Linc for a pre game tailgaiting scene. I went down to the set today, but sadly as soon as I got there, they wrapped, just my luck. Tomorrow I hear is a much longer day (they only shot for three hours today). There will be a lot more people there tomorrow as well.
If you have the chance to go down to the stadium, try to fit in with the crowd, do not stand out! I suggest wearing something Eagles related (if they survived the fireplace after last night's game). I went down today and wore Eagles gear and walked right into the middle of the set. Robert Deniro and Bradley Cooper were on set today, but I did not see them. Deniro was driving around in an old Cadillac with a bunch of cameras on the car. It actually just looks like a game day there, but obviously it is not. The set up is pretty large so just kind of wander through if you get the chance.
Here is a picture of the set I took today. As you can see, it just looks like typical tailgaiting pre Eagles game.
I am trying to get to the set around 9:30am so maybe you will see me there.
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