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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'thetaking'

February 12, 2008

Ooh, a fun update about the remake of The Taking of Pelham One-Two-Three. AMNY's Subway Tracker reports that location scouting is well under way, "Crews were at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station today...crews will be doing a camera test near Jerome and Tremont in the Bronx tomorrow some time (near the 4 line)." Transit officials even confirmed that crews were scouting today! Last September, the remake plans were announced, with Tony Scott directing and Denzel Washington reprising......

Continue Reading "Scouting for the Re-Taking of Pelham 123"

January 28, 2008

We know that Giants co-owner and movie producer Steve Tisch has been trying to ramp up the star power for the Giants sidelines. After Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore and Cameron Diaz were seen at a game last fall, Tisch told the NY Times, he brings "the spices, the taste, the flavor" to the Giants (if the Giants experience were a soup; the other co-owners, the Maras, would bring the meat and potatoes). This past......

Continue Reading "Giants' Celebrity Fans Get Ready for the Super Bowl"

September 24, 2007

Move over, remake of The Warriors: Variety (subscription required) reports that Denzel Washington will star in the Tony Scott-directed remake:Washington will take on the role of Zachary "Z" Garber, which was played by Walter Matthau in the original 1974 Joseph Sargent-helmed film. The story, based on a novel by John Godey, also spawned a 1998 TV movie starring Edward James Olmos. The latest incarnation takes place in contemporary New York and is set in motion......

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September 6, 2006

Yesterday, the Daily News reported that the MTA had considered installing floodgates, in case a tunnel wall breaks. You know, somewhere there's a movie producer thinking "Let's do something that's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three meets Poseiden!" Amtrak has apparently upgraded old floodgates at Penn Station, and while the MTA won't get specific, the director of interagency preparedness Lewis Schiliro said, "To the extent that we can make the tunnels more secure,......

Continue Reading "MTA's Tunnel Vision"

October 12, 2005

After all the comments on yesterday's post about books set in NYC, we got to thinking, has anyone bothered to come up with a list of all the movies set in the city? The answer, of course, is yes-- at Wikipedia, of course. What an amazing site-- it's like having a genie who's only job is to distract us with useless NYC trivia! They've probably missed a couple of movies here and there, but......

Continue Reading "Best Decade For NYC Movies: 1970s"

July 6, 2004

Peter Parker, please. Gothamist can understand artistic license. We can understands leaps of faith necessary to forward a movie plot. But we cannot sit and not comment on the subway problem in Spider-Man 2. Spider-Man 2 is clearly set in New York City: Peter Parker goes to Columbia University, Aunt May lives in Queens... which is why it killed us to see Spider-Man and Doc Ock fight on top of a subway (an R......

Continue Reading "From NY to Chicago: The Spider-Man Train"

June 17, 2004

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John Hodgman, Writer...

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May 26, 2004

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Jeff Croteau, Librarian in G-Training...

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