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We'd expect a lack of municipal fealty from most people in show business, but we were disappointed to hear that Al Pacino and Robert De Niro would be turning up a chance to shoot in the city in exchange for a building in Connecticut with a NYC backdrop behind it. The New York Post reported briefly that some scenes of the in-production film "Righteous Kill" will be posing scenes set in NYC in Stamford, CT, with backdrops outside the windows of an actual building illustrating New York. The film has been shooting in New Haven and Norwalk, CT for weeks and was lured to the Nutmeg State by tax breaks for film companies.
It's certainly not uncommon for film companies to substitute an alternate city for New York, but De Niro himself established a film festival to support the city following 9/11 and seems strongly affiliated with New York. Martin Scorsese, a director inextricably linked with the city is rumored to also play a character in the film about two cops searching for a killer who might be one of their own. The building that the interior scenes with NYC backdrops will be filmed in is a Trump signature development.
It might be disappointing, but not unusual. "Righteous Kill" may team Martin Scorsese with Mark Wahlberg, and the two worked together in "The Departed", a movie set in Boston but that had scenes shot in NYC for a grittier urban mise en scene than Boston could provide.
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What scenes in the departed were shot in NYC?
I don't know specifically, but this page at IMDB lists filming locations for The Departed in the Bronx, around Brooklyn, and in Manhattan.
who cares anymore? the days of the city as a backdrop ended in the seventies and early eighties.
same with some other cities, watched The Verdict last week on cable, Those exterior Boston shots are long forgotten.
I work on movies in the city. Lately there has been a rash of shoots up in CT. It is their tax incentives that makes it attractive to the producers. Meanwhile the crews from NYC end up going to CT to work. I don't like doing it because I'd rather sleep at home than at a hotel.
Still, better CT where I can go work, than Toronto where I can't. The scenes being shot are most likely interiors that are built on a stage. I often shoot interiors built in Queens or Brooklyn but are interiors of building in Manhattan. I hear PA and NJ will be the next hot (tax incentive) places to shoot.
[4] Thanks so much for adding that firsthand information. Going through the trivia page related to "The Departed" on IMDB, I read that Scorsese would have preferred shooting the film in Boston where it was set. A 15% tax-break offered by NYC, however, resulted in a good portion of the film being shot in New York. Following the incredible success of "The Departed," MA itself now offers a 25% tax incentive to lure filmmakers interested in shooting in the Bay State.
To the prior commenter who said "who cares?" I don't know; I guess it's up to the individual. Some of the most memorable NYC scenes ever filmed were back lot or sound stage creations. At the same time, some movie scenes are memorable simply because of their NYC authenticity.
For the love of God, please stop w/ this. Things are shot in the city, you complain...things are shot elsewhere....you complain. Oh, and just so you know, IMDB is not all that accurate, so don't take it as gospel. If scenes were shot in NY subbing for Boston - it was probably so that the Director could sleep in his own bed during the shoot
don't believe number four.
The Mayor's Ofice of Film, Theater & Broadcasting lists locations in NYC where the Departed was filmed
http://www.nyc.gov/html/film/html/locations/sets_the_departed.shtml
scenes shot in NYC for a grittier urban mise en scene than Boston could provide.
No, he did it for the tax breaks.
In the scene at the beginning of the film where Leonardo DiCaprio and Anthony Anderson are training at the Massachusetts State Police Academy, you can see the Throgs Neck Bridge in the background.
Thanks pickles for the link. I'm really surprised there were so many scenes filmed in NYC.