Detroit in films

**Detroitdave** · October-30-13, 02:15 PM

I was lucky enough to have most of the day off today and was channel surfing and came across HBO2 and movie the Island [[2005)was on.
I was impressed with how nice Detroit look and just how much they used of the city.
Since 2005 Detroit has been used for many movies . With my previous background in entertainment I am still bummed that the State choose to cut back so much on the movie Industry was was clearly into shooting in the Detroit area.
However it's still refreshing to see that major movies are still using Detroit in many of their films , ie Transformers, and the future Batman/Superman movie.
Makes me wonder how much further along we would be in the entertainment business ?
just a thought

**Detroitnerd** · October-30-13, 02:25 PM

So what is your question?

**DetroitPlanner** · October-30-13, 03:56 PM

Here is one of the first ones: http://www.andyhardyfilms.com/hrh.htm

**GPCharles** · October-31-13, 08:57 AM

Check out Scarecrow with Al Pacino and Gene Hackman. Great scene in the Scott Fountain on Belle Isle.

**56packman** · October-31-13, 09:18 AM

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/87761...g-for-the-Sun/

Filmed partially inside the Packard Plant.

**Gingellgirl** · October-31-13, 09:25 AM

From the Michigan Film Office: Detroit Film Locations Tour
http://www.michiganfilmoffice.org/cm...tour2012_5.pdf

**preserve** · October-31-13, 11:21 AM

Rosary Murders filmed in southwest Detroit, including Duly's, Holy Redeemer, Holy Cross Cemetary, house on Vinewood, Pegasus in Greektown
To Kill the Irishman, filmed in Corktown, Roma Cafe, Cliff Bells, Butcher's Inn,
Eastern Market, Belle Isle, etc.
Couldn't read all the info on the cite from gingellgirl, print too small, hope I didn't repeat anything.

**KJ5** · November-01-13, 06:30 AM

Sam Raimi's 1985 flick Crimewave was shot entirely in Detroit. And Real Steel with Hugh Jackman and Evageline Lilly was shot partially here. They shot a scene on the loading dock of the building I used to be security guard for. Too bad the movie was wack.
And I always like seeing the diner at the Leland used in movies. It's got that classic diner look and has been in more than one film.

**Jimaz** · November-02-13, 11:53 AM

This new film looks like fun: Detroit Unleaded.

**night-timer** · November-02-13, 03:40 PM

I'm looking more for Detroit locations heavily visible in films than movies of characters who happen to live in the D. But that's just me.

**marshamusic** · November-03-13, 06:59 PM

There is a 2002 film called City on Fire: The Story of the '68 Detroit Tiger. I was interviewed in this movie, and I know there were many Detroit locales in the film. However, it is out of print and hard to find.

It actually was a good documentary, if really geared towards, "the '68 pennant race healed Detroit". Any commentary otherwise - from all of us history folks in the film - was edited out of the final production.

It was made for HBO, and the producers were trying to tell a good story about Detroit, and about that game. I have a baseball with HBO imprinted on it, and fond memories of the film shoot.

http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/...igers/overview

**kathy2trips** · November-04-13, 12:26 AM

Detroit was involved in the film industry early on. The first films were documentaries, most notably Female Prisoners: Detroit House of Correction [[1899) and Fire Drill at the Factory of Parke, Davis & Co. [[1899). Contemporary sources claim the first feature film made in Detroit was the silent film The Mysterious Mr. Browning [[1918) with shots of homes on Woodward Avenue [[!), the Detroit River and various parks. Other early films of note are Speed [[1936), with James Stewart, Reaching for the Sun [[1941) with shots of the then-operational Packard Motor Plant, T-Men [[1947), Frank Capra's State of the Union [[1948) and King Vidor's An American Romance [[1944).

We should, though, differentiate between films filmed in Detroit and are portrayed as somewhere else, and films where the storyline takes place in Detroit. Two different things.

**frankfrank** · November-05-13, 01:23 AM

ROYAL OAK, but close enough, right?

The movie PRAYERS FOR BOBBY was filmed partially in Royal Oak. Much of it was filmed elsewhere, but scenes along the railroad tracks were in Royal Oak, along with some other scenes. I was visiting a friend there in 2009[[?) and we were out walking and we happened to see filming going on at about midnight.

It didn't hurt that, once a couple of the people described the gist of the movie, I knew it was something that I had to see.

**Chinman** · November-05-13, 05:53 AM

Based in Detroit, Game of Death w/ Wesley Snipes.

see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ4eM...k6-fa-RorUAyAi

**Kathleen** · November-05-13, 06:36 AM

Polish Wedding [[1998)

"Written and directed by Detroit native Theresa Connelly, and filmed entirely in Hamtramck and nearby neighborhoods,..."

http://www2.metrotimes.com/screens/review.asp?rid=11826