Detroit Bands Cash In On Television Shows

In the last few months two noted Detroit area rock bands have seen their music included in the soundtracks for popular TV shows. Back in January, Mason Proper’s song “In The Mirror” was featured on the Detroit made, Life Time made-for-TV movie America. Tonight, The Hard Lessons’ song “Wedding Ring” will be featured on Grey Anatomy.

Category: America

Posted by Detroit Eye Max on Apr 30, 2009 | No Comments | Permalink |

Time Warner Absorbs Gran Torino Costs

Producers of Gran Torino failed to finance the film and left Time Warner to absorb it’s cost. Gran Torino was shot in Metro Detroit last summer and has been one of the biggest movies made in Michigan since the recent passage of the state’s new film tax incentives that allow productions to recoup close to 40% of their costs.

Gran Torino producers Village Roadshow also left Time Warner hold the bag on three other films; Get Smart, Yes Man, Nights in Rodan.

Category: Gran Torino

Posted by Detroit Eye Max on Apr 29, 2009 | No Comments | Permalink |

A&E Parking Wars Coming To Detroit

It looks as though the next four sessions of A&E’s successfully realty show Parking Wars, will be shot in Detroit. Previous sessions were shot in Philadelphia. No word on if the recent Michigan film incentives played a role in the shows decision to come to Detroit. The producers of the show; Hybrid Films, is negotiating with he City of Detroit, which will begin shooting this spring. The show is expected add close to $250,000 a year to the local economy.

Other reality shows including Animal Planet’s Animal Cops (Anglia Television,) Spike TV’s DEA (Size 12 Productions) and Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days (Actual Reality Pictures) have all recently shot in Metro Detroit.

Category: Parking Wars

Posted by Detroit Eye Max on Apr 27, 2009 | No Comments | Permalink |

Ferndale Film Festival

The first annual The Ferndale Film Festival (F3) will take place September 3-7, 2009. F3 will include several screens dotted about the city, “Drive-In” theatres, workshops, exhibitions, VIP events and more. F3 has recently issued a call for entries. The inaugural event is expected to draw over 1,500 moviegoers.

Category: Ferndale Film Festival

Posted by Detroit Eye Max on Apr 25, 2009 | No Comments | Permalink |

Michigan Production Update – April 23, 2009

Samuel L. Jackson will be staring in the new movie Rape: A Love Story; which has an estimated $25-million budget, is in preproduction, in Michigan (possibly Grand Rapids) this coming July. Samuel L. Jackson also starred in the 2008 thriller Jumper, which was shot in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (read more)

Also, HBO recently shot their new, original dark comedy Hung in Oakland County, Michigan.

Category: Hung, Michigan Production News, Samuel L. Jackson, Vengeance: A Love Story

Posted by Detroit Eye Max on Apr 23, 2009 | No Comments | Permalink |

Michigan Production Update – April, 14, 2009

Allen Park is going ahead with a planned $146 million film, TV studio (Unity Studios will be headed by Jimmy Lifton, a native of Detroit who is president of Oracle Post, a California production studio that has donw work on “Heroes” and “Law & Order.”)

New “Tween” sitcom to be made entierly in Ferndale, Michigan.

Also, the movie Bluegrass Run will be shooting around metro detroit this summer.

Category: Michigan Production News

Posted by Detroit Eye Max on Apr 14, 2009 | 1 Comment | Permalink |

World Movie Premiers Come To Michigan

The Steam Experiment will premier in Grand Rapids on May 5, while Street Boss will premier on at the Temple Theatre in Saginaw on May 29.

Also here is a story on a recent Betty Anne Waters shoot in Howell Michigan.

Category: Betty Anne Waters, Street Boss, The Steam Experiment

Posted by Detroit Eye Max on Apr 8, 2009 | No Comments | Permalink |

Spiderman 4 Script Almost Ready

In a recent interview with SCI FI Wire, director Sam Raimi said the script for Spiderman 4 should be ready by this comming summer inorder for the film has to make the announced May 6, 2011 release date. This set’s up next summer (2010) for the filmming of Spiderman 4, which many believe will be at least partially shot (second unit photography) in Sam Raimi’s hometown area of Metro Detroit due to the recent Michigan film Tax Incentives.

Category: Sam Raimi, Spider-Man

Posted by Detroit Eye Max on Apr 2, 2009 | No Comments | Permalink |

Former Ypsilanti Visteon/Ford Plant May Become Porn Studio

A plant off of I-94 in Ypsilanti, which once had one of the most visible Ford Motor Company signs in the world proudly displayed atop of it’s roof just less then nine years ago, a plant that was built by Henry Ford himself (and still has the original floors that he personally had installed), is now being considered as a porn studio for Vivid Entertainment and Larry Flint’s Hustler Video (which will qualify for Michigans 42% movie tax credits.) Will this be a horrible PR move for the already battered tax credit or a perfect display of revitalization for Southeast Michigan?

Category: YpsiTucky

Posted by Detroit Eye Max on Apr 1, 2009 | 2 Comments | Permalink |

Parallax Lands 60 Million Post Production Deal

California-based New Castle Entertainment has entered a $60 million deal with Parallax to handle editing, sound mixing, composing, animation and other “post-production.” New Castle would also use Parallax’s sound stages.

The relationship between the two companies began last year when the New Castle produced the feature-length drama Intent at Parallax. The movie was partially funded under Michigan’s film incentive program, which refunds up to 42 percent of production costs. Last month, New Castle became the first company to receive money under the state program that began April 2008.

Category: Intent, New Castle Entertainment, Parallax

Posted by Detroit Eye Max on Apr 1, 2009 | 1 Comment | Permalink |

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