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A role as an extra on Law Abiding Citizen, the currently shooting Jamie Foxx-Gerard Butler movie, sold for $1,300 last week as part of CityStyle, a benefit for the Gershman Y. Greater Philadelphia Film Office head Sharon Pinkenson worked the gavel. Buyer Juliet...

They serve steak in prison?

Shang Skipper, general manager of Del Frisco's (15th & Chestnut), will be on set at Holmesburg Prison tomorrow, when "Law Abiding Citizen" shoots a scene that centers on food from the steakhouse being delivered to a prison where Gerard Butler's character is locked...

Want to be in “Law Abiding Citizen”?

Ever dream of working in the movies? Tonight, Sharon Pinkenson, head of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, will auction off a walk-on role in Law Abiding Citizen starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. The auction is part of CityStyle, the third annual fund-raiser...

Actors help out Film Office

The Greater Philadelphia Film Office brings film projects to the area, hoping to steer civic pride and a few bucks into the area. Saturday night, movie folk came to the aid of the film office, helping to bring in nearly $20,000. The top-liners of the film Law Abiding...

Inqlings: Overbrook Farms starring again (Blog)

Hollywood has returned to Overbrook Farms, and the cinematic results again won't be cheery. In 2007, director M. Night Shyamalan shot a chilling hanging scene on a front lawn near City Avenue for The Happening. [b]Friday night, Law Abiding Citizen director F. Gary...

Lights, Camera, Action

It was lights, camera, action with virtually all of Market Street shut down Thursday night for the latest segment of the action thriller Law Abiding Citizen. "It's kind of exciting you don't see this everyday," said Joshmin Ray of East Oak Lane. The movie, which stars...

Foxx hurt in hoops action

JAMIE FOXX injured his leg Tuesday night playing basketball at the Sporting Club at the Bellevue. Foxx was playing ball with a group of guys when he got hurt, and limped off the court. Eyewitnesses say Foxx, in town shooting "Law Abiding Citizen," was good-natured...

Gerard planning to cash in as a movie producer

GERARD Butler is banking on his latest movie winning, or losing, him a fortune. The actor has got together with a group of investor pals - Lucas Foster, Mark Gill, and Alan Siegel - and sunk more than a staggering GBP 50million into Law Abiding Citizen, in which he...

At the movies

Explosions from Holmesburg Prison in Northeast Philly tomorrow and Tuesday? The crew from Law Abiding Citizen will blow up a couple of cars on the set of the psychological thriller, starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx. Regina Hall (Scary Movie) will visit toward the...

Philly goes Hollywood

[i]'Law Abiding Citizen,' starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, had a day shoot at a local bridge Tuesday. [/i] Assistant district attorney Nick Rice arrives on the South Philly scene where a missing cop may be buried. The west side of the George C. Platt Memorial...

The Recession That Ate The Art Films

[i]Independent movies are getting crushed right now. Will they survive?[/i] LOS ANGELES--The hottest film to emerge from this year's Sundance Film Festival is such an uncommercial movie that even the festival's programming director didn't think it was going to sell....

Reel Life at Heart Truth Red Dress Show

Don't expect to see model Marcus Schenkenberg on the catwalk anytime soon. At the Heart Truth Red Dress show Friday morning, the veteran mannequin wasn't experiencing any runway envy. "I've done enough walking over the years," said Schenkenberg, who was there to...

Lights . . . camera . . . Schuylkill

Law Abiding Citizen, F. Gary Gray's thriller starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, will shoot scenes early next week under the Platt Memorial Bridge in South Philly. The company is doing interiors this week at the old Broadmeadows prison in Thornton, Delaware County....

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