Time.com has a great behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming Michigan made movie Betty Anne Waters (starring Hilary Swank, Peter Gallagher and Minnie Driver.) The article also has a fantastic photo essay that shows what’s it’s like to be on the set. Time.com estimates that films crews could spend nearly 300 million making movies in Michigan during the 2009 calendar year.
“It can double for almost anything. You can make one of the lakes look like an ocean. You can do rural. You can do gritty urban.” - Tena Constas (Location Scout)
Category:
Betty Anne Waters
Two-time Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank will be filming her next movie, Betty Ann Waters mid-January 2009 in Ann Arbor Michigan.
In the past year, high profile movies Youth in Revolt and Drew Barrymore’s Whip It have both filmed in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area
Category:
Betty Anne Waters,
Hilary Swank
First it was Clint Eastwood with his latest movie Gran Torino, now several Academy Award winning and nominated actors are coming to Michigan to shoot their latest movie projects:
High School staring Academy Award Winner Adrien Brody
Betty Anne Waters staring Academy Award Winner Hilary Swank (more)
Fish in a Barrel staring Academy Award Nominee Burt Reynolds
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story staring Academy Award Winner Cuba Gooding Jr.
Category:
Betty Anne Waters,
Burt Reynolds,
Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Fish in a Barrel,
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story,
High School,
Hilary Swank