Pittsburgh Flicks

Great Frank or Francis News!

2012-01-26T14:56:00.003-05:00

Cool! Two of my favorite actresses, Kate Winslet and Catherine Keener, are in talks for Frank or Francis, Charlie Kaufman's next flick, due to be shot here in Pittsburgh soon!

Pennsylvania Film Industry Association Event

2012-01-11T16:22:00.002-05:00

The PFIAA is running an evening event. On Thursday, January 19, Jake Meyers, the executive producer of the locally-shot One Shot, will come and talk about moviemaking at the Westin Convention Center.

Dark Knight Rises Trailer II

2011-12-17T15:25:00.000-05:00

The Dark Knight Rises has been in production for a very long time all over the world. When the first teaser trailer was out last summer, the movie had already been shot on two continents and was shooting in Pittsburgh. So there were no local shots in the first trailer for obvious reasons.

It was fun to see Pittsburgh show up prominently in the new The Dark Knight Rises trailer that has just started playing (12/11). The portions of the trailer shot in Pittsburgh include:

The long stadium shots were all from Heinz Field, and those shots open the trailer, with the kid singing the National Anthem
The field explosion, dramatically enhanced by CGI
The fighting in front of gray-columned Mellon Institute (though a lot more of the fighting was also shot in New York City recently)
One street scene with a low-flowing aircraft filmed in downtown on Smithfield St.

The second trailer is now available online. I don't seem to be in it, though I was only about 10 rows away from the kid who was singing.

Screen Actors Guild Nomination for Nick Nolte for Warrior

2011-12-14T12:48:00.002-05:00

Every once in a while, a movie shot in the Pittsburgh area is nominated for an award. Granted, it doesn't seem to happen that often. So, it was nice to see Nick Nolte, who played the father in Warrior, be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor. Good luck to Nick! Full SAG Nominee List

One Shot (in Production)

2011-11-16T10:42:00.001-05:00

One Shot continues to shoot around Pittsburgh. They've been shooting in two units all over - the first unit (actors' scenes) and the second unit (driving scenes). Nancy Mosser Casting is still doing periodic extra calls, so, if you think you'd like to be an extra, it never hurts to sign up.

Steeltown Event Wednesday Night

2011-11-07T10:14:00.003-05:00

For the last two years, Steeltown has sponsored a short script contest. The kickoff event for the upcoming competition is Wednesday, November 9 at Regent Sq. Theater.

I thought this was a great idea, and attended three script competition events in early 2010. My favorite script was a small bit of magical realism called Lightweight. While Lightweight was not one of the two winners, it basically placed third, and the filmmakers made their film, which will be shown Wednesday night. In addition, the 2011 winner will be shown (due to a very busy volunteer project, I didn't attend any of the 2011 events, so I'm not sure what the winner is like).

There are still tickets available - go to Steeltown Film Factory Website for more event inforation and to buy tickets.

2011 - Busy Moviemaking Year and More to Come!

2011-09-15T10:00:00.000-04:00

I haven't posted here much this year, due more to having a very busy volunteer project. Did a little extra work on Steel Town (later renamed Still I Rise), and was one of about 10,000 free extras who sat in Heinz Field for a Saturday for stadium crowd scenes for The Dark Knight Rises. It looked like Anne Hathaway and Joseph Gordon-Levitt briefly visited the set, but Tom Hardy was there long enough for a general introduction. Sadly, I was out of my seat and looking for some water at that point, so I missed Hardy completely.

The next Tom Cruise movie, One Shot, will be filmed here this fall. Rosamund Pike (An Education) and David Oyelowo (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) will co-star.

Last year, I complained a little that while I'm glad more movies are being shot in the Pittsburgh area, I wished a better quality of movie was filmed here. That just might have happened. While Warrior, shot here in 2009, has been a slow-starter at the box office, it's a very good movie, a darker version of last year's The Fighter. Excellent performances by Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy and Nick Nolte. If you haven't seen Warrior, go see it even if you don't care for fight movies.

And, Abduction, shot here in the summer of 2010 with some reshoots in May 2011, has been getting lots of TV commercials and trailers. The trailer makes it look quite compelling.

Busy Moviemaking Season Returns to Pittsburgh

2011-06-01T08:23:00.004-04:00

For the last few years, spring and summer have been the busy times for movie shoots in the Pittsburgh region. This year has been no exception.

The big local movies here this spring include:

Abduction - the Taylor Lautner movie, mostly shot here last summer, but returned for several days of reshoots in early May.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - the Emma Watson movie, written and directed by a Pittsburgh native, has been here for about a month and will continue to shoot in June
Steel Town (formerly Still I Rise) - the Viola Davis/Maggie Gyllenhaal movie about educational controversies, will be shooting throughout June.

Steel Town is actively recruiting extras, especially kids. There are many classroom scenes, and many scenes of parents/community rallying to help support change coming to the school.

Much of a shooting day involves waiting around, so kids must be able to quietly amuse themselves, and must be able to take direction while on set. I'm honestly not sure what the pay rate is for kids, but they cannot
work as many hours as adults. Tips for Surviving as an Extra (applies to kids as well as to adults!).

To apply, E-mail name, phone number, photo and age to fourthrivercasting@yahoo.com

But, what many of us are particularly looking forward to is The Dark Knight Rises, AKA Batman. Directed by Christopher Nolan, it'll be one of the biggest movies ever shot in Pittsburgh. The 'burgh is only one stop on its international shooting tour, but I think it's going to be in Pittsburgh longer than anywhere else.

Joe Hill's Locke and Key Being Filmed Locally

2011-02-11T17:12:00.000-05:00

Since the release of a number of Pittsburgh-shot movies last fall (Unstoppable, Love and Other Drugs and The Next Three Days), it's been a quiet time, TV/movie production-wise, in the Pittsburgh area.

That's changed now that Locke and Key, based on a comic book by Joe Hill, has come to town. Its director, Mark Romanek, has a history of making solid but under-appreciated movies (Never Let Me Go, One Hour Photo and Bee Season). Its lead, Miranda Otto, is sometimes in big projects (Lord of the Rings, War of the Worlds) but often doesn't get her due. Her co-star, Nick Stahl (In the Bedroom, Carnivale), also does terrfic work.

In this movie, the Pittsburgh area (Hartwood Acres in particular) is playing rural Massachusetts. While Massachusetts has more rolling hills and isn't as "ridgey" as Western Pennsylvania, it's a good fit.

My Top Ten Movies of 2010

2010-12-30T08:12:00.001-05:00

1. The King's Speech
2. The Social Network
3. Winter's Bone
4. Inception
5. The Kids Are All Right
6. Fair Game
7. Easy A
8. The Ghost Writer
9. Love and Other Drugs
10. The Town

I would like to have been able to add more Pittsburgh-produced movies on this list. If I'd gone to "15 Top Movies," I probably would have added The Next Three Days as it was very good. She's Out of My League was fun, but not exactly best-of-the-year material. Unstoppable...eh.

Here's to some better movies made in Pittsburgh in 2011!

Unstoppable Review

2010-11-14T08:06:00.003-05:00

This is the month when three movies shot in the Pittsburgh area last year are being released almost simultaneously. I try to go see most locally-made movies, unless they're just gorefests. I like to find locations I'm familiar with, and the work of people I know slightly who work in the industry.

The first of the three came out this weekend - Unstoppable, starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine and directed by Tony Scott.

I'm not much for action adventure type movies, because they are mostly a mess of illogic. Unstoppable is no exception. I'm surprised that the reviews have been as positive as they have been. I'll admit it's a little exciting in places, but it really didn't hold my interest very much. The script has almost every action movie cliche and stock character you can imagine. TIresome.

I'd like to say it was well-made, but the photography swings so much that it gets a little dizzying. I suppose that's part of the point - keep the audience off-balance so they can't think very much during the movie.

There are also stupid continuity problems. For whatever reason, while the movie is clearly set in Western Pennsylvania and a few scenes are actually set in Pittsburgh, the production decided to put in fake town names. I'm pretty sure the ending sequences were shot in Wheeling, West Virginia. So why not say the train was going to wind up in Wheeling? Why make up the name of another city that's larger than Pittsburgh but roughly in the Pittsburgh area?

Much of the movie was shot in small towns outside of Altoona, where train tracks parallel small country roads for a long time. One thing that was too bad is one of the most striking train vistas in the region is the Horseshoe Curve, which runs along a hill overlooking a valley. For whatever reason, they didn't/couldn't shoot from there.

At one point early in the movie, you see Channel 11 weather on in the background. It shows the highs in the 90s in southwestern Pennsylvania the day of the "train incident." At the end of the movie (which is either late in the day of train incident or maybe the next day), people are wearing mittens and scarves.

The acting was just tiresome. I've been a big fan of Denzel Washington, but he's done this upright/blue collar guy a lot over the last few years, and I know he can do better than this. Chris Pine is still so-so. The only performance that was at all interesting was Rosario Dawson who is stuck in a train control center for the entire movie. But she was the only person in this movie with any spark.

What made the movie kind of tolerable in places was comparing/contrasting corporate/government reaction in Unstoppable (which was shot in the fall 2009) and the BP oil disaster (which happened in mid-2010). You can almost see top-level corporate reaction in both being the same; that some of the people on the ground might have had a few clues but were generally ignored. The one "fed" in the flick initially seemed like he'd be part of the problem, but he wound up being useful.

So if you like a movie that basically screams "I'm a big video game," you might like Unstoppable. I saw this movie at noon in a suburban Pittsburgh theater that was about 2/3rds full (usually the first Saturday showing doesn't fill up like that, so that showed a fair amount local interest in the film).

Still looking very much to seeing Love and Other Drugs (every time I see the commercial, it makes me laugh) and The Next Three Days (which looks like it has striking Pittsburgh photography...and, heck, I might be in it as I was an extra in some of the airport scenes).

2010-08-23T13:57:00.001-04:00

Abduction Extras Needed for 8/26 and 8/27

Abduction has been shooting in the area for about two months.
Their casting crew is looking for extras for late August, especially Thursday, August 26 and Friday, August 27.

To be considered for extra work, E-mail your photo to: abductionstadium@gmail.com,
along with your name, date of birth (need to be 18 to be considered) and your phone number.

Keep an eye on their Facebook page. Go to www.facebook.com and search on "Abduction Extras" to find their extra casting calls.

If you've never been an extra before, while there's a lot of "hurry-up and wait," it's a fascinating experience if you want to watch the craft of movie-making. And, you get paid!

Surviving Your Days as an Extra

2010-08-23T13:55:00.002-04:00

So you've just gotten a gig as an extra? Congrats! If you've never done it before, here are some things to remember.

Be on time. If your call time is for 9am, get there a little before 9am. Call the casting office if you will be late or if something happened and you can't show up at all. Follow the signs that say "Extra Parking" and "Extra Check-in" so you'll wind up in the right spot at the right time.
Bring a photo ID, something with your Social Security number, government issued photo ID (driver's license/passport) and a pen. You will need to fill out paperwork once you get there.
Wear comfortable shoes. You may be standing around more than you realize. You may be walking much more than you anticipate. However, if you have to wear uncomfortable shoes on set, be sure to have comfortable ones to wear once you leave the set.
Bring snacks. Yes, they will feed you, but sometimes having some granola bars, hard candy and maybe even a sandwich can be very helpful. Also, a small bottle of water is a huge help because you can sneak that in a bag or a pocket and keep it with you.
If you may be outside, bring sunglasses, a cap and sunscreen. Sunglasses are a good idea in general as set lights can be murder. Note that you may be told to remove the sunglasses and cap depending on what the director wants.
You will often be asked to bring extra clothes. If they don't ask you to do that, dress appropriately for the scene. Don't wear white, and don't wear items with logos.
Bring diversionary materials - books, eBooks, gaming devices, iPod, anything small. In most cases, a laptop or an iPad is too big. Another reason for bringing things like eBooks or small crafts - you might be asked to do something on set other than just sit. You might be asked to read or knit or play with a GameBoy, so it's handy if you have something like that on you that you can use.
A deck of cards can be a good way to make friends.
Listen to your production assistants (PA). Follow their instructions carefully. Don't lose track of them! PAs take a lot of flack, as they're wedged between the higher-level people making the movie and the extras, many of whom have never been on a set before. While some PAs could use a term in charm school, most of them are worth their weight in gold.
Don't bring a camera. Seriously. Almost nothing will get you thrown off a set faster than trying to take pictures.
Turn off your cell phone when you're called to a set. Almost nothing is more embarrassing than a cell phone going off in a shot. That, too, can get you booted off some sets.
Don't bring attitude. If you're a diva or a stalker, stay home. Remember, an extra is just a cooperative, mobile prop. Extras are often insurance so a director can use you in a scene when they're unsure whether to use extras or not. If you take yourself more seriously than that, you're going to have a rotten time. You have to look at extra work as if you're just being paid to read or chat with other people in extra holding, and if you do get to be on set, it's a bonus.
If you have screwed up and are told to leave the set, leave immediately. Don't whine about it. The more you whine, the more people will remember that you whined.
If they let you watch filming when you're not actually filming, stand out of the way and be very quiet.

Frankly, I could never be a "full-time" extra, but, a few days a year or a month, it's a ball!

Pittsburgh Casting Call for I Am Number Four

2010-05-17T21:32:00.002-04:00

Dreamworks Studios and Walt Disney Pictures are shooting I am Number Four in Pittsburgh this spring and summer. The extras casting director in Pittsburgh is seeking local people to work on the film as background actors. They are specifically looking for young men and women 18 years and older, looking younger to be able to portray high school students.

If interested please submit a color snapshot, age, weight, phone number, and location via email:

numberfourextras@gmail.com

New Movie Organization In Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Film Industry Association

2010-05-17T12:04:00.001-04:00

There's a fairly new statewide organization, Pennsylvania Film Industry Association, that seems to serve two purposes - lobbying for the film industry and providing networking opportunities. They are planning an event for Pittsburgh in the not-too-distant future.

Movie-making is happening again in Western PA, after a few months of winter quiet. Could be another horror movie...

The early buzz on one of last year's local shoots, Love and Other Drugs, is very promising. I hope that turns out to be the case!

Steeltown Entertainment's Ready, Set, Produce

2010-03-27T18:31:00.000-04:00

Steeltown Film Factory presented the culmination of its first-ever short film script competition by holding a workshop on production issues, evaluating the production information each of the script finalists had compiled. Previous workshops had included a seated reading of the 10 inital finalist scripts and a director's pitch workshop for the 5 semifinalists.

The judges could give the $25,00 film production pot to one finalist, or split it among multiple winners. The judges quizzed the finalists pretty closely, and clearly wanted as many specifics as they could glean.

I had a bias for "Lightweight" even since the initial reading. Sadly, the judges chose two winners and "Lightweight" was not one of them. They gave $12,500 each to the writers of "Roll the Die" and "Anywhere But Here." My preferences aside, much as I found "Roll the Die" a very amusing script, I just don't see how it could be produced for the budget it has (even given the fact that most short film makers cut their budgets every way they can).

But, I do look forward do seeing these movies. The short films are due to be shot early this summer, and are due to premiere at the Pittsburgh Film Festival in November.

No Pittsburgh Accents in She's Out of My League?

2010-03-22T19:09:00.003-04:00

I was in a forum lately where people were complaining about the lack of Pittsburgh accents in She's Out of My League.

The Pittsburgh accent is tricky. The only people on the "national stage" who have a strong Pittsburgh accent are Dan Marino and Bill Cowher (and anyone who doesn't follow sports probably has no idea who I'm talking about). It was, frankly, better that the professional actors didn't try, unless they were good with accents.

The script was originally set in Phoenix, and the screenwriters did a good job resetting locations in the script to show off Pittsburgh.

However, they never paid any attention to local slang, so none was included. Pittsburgh slang is kind of funny and it's usually easy to guess from context. Some could have been worked in, but it wasn't.

Example - at one point near the end of the Penguins hockey sequence, Molly (Alice Eve - the blonde) yelled at a hockey player "Fox, keep your stick up!" OK, that was in the script (more or less - Fox was also the last name of the assistant director). During filming, the director asked for people to ad-lib yelling at the hockey players at about that point.

Alice, being British, chose to ad-lib "You wanker!" at one of the hockey players.

After the director yelled "CUT," about half the extras yelled, "Have her say 'You jagoff!'" which is Pittsburghese for "You wanker!" Sadly, that didn't happen. Now that would have been funny.

My Tale of Two Cities - SouthSide Works Cinema - March 19-25

2010-03-18T07:16:00.000-04:00

My Tale of Two Cities is Carl Kurlander's charming Valentine to Pittsburgh. It's a project he worked on for years in the mid-00s, and while it played a few festivals and came out on DVD, it never had the release it deserved.

This week, you'll have the chance to see My Tale of Two Cities at the SouthSide Works Cinema from Friday, March 19-Thursday, March 26. It's a fun look at Pittsburgh, with excellent photography.

She's Out of My League Has Opened

2010-03-12T06:54:00.002-05:00

During the "crazy time" in movie-making in Pittsburgh, winter-spring 2008, no fewer than three different movies were being made simultaneously:

She's Out of My League
Shelter
The Road

I was looking for some work, had always wanted to be involved in a movie. After signing up with the various extra agencies, I was called into be an extra for She's Out of My League. It was a lot of standing around and hurry-up-and-wait, but I really enjoyed it. And, there's always the danger that despite your ability to follow directions and be in the right place at the right time, that you never show up in the movie.

I'm happy to say I did get my two seconds of fame when I showed up in the hockey crowd scene. It was filmed during my two days of shooting in the arena. I then shot another six days in the airport, in various crowd scenes. Or, to look at it another way, I made about $800 for 2 seconds of screen time. ;->

League is a fun, raunchy comedy. Jay Baruchel, who is better looking in person, plays the awkward Kirk. Alice Eve, an English actress with a perfect American accent, plays the woman who becomes interested in him. Alice Eve's parents in the movie are played by her real-life parents, both well-known English actors with equally flawless American accents.

One common feature of the movies shot in Pittsburgh - the better the photography is of Pittsburgh, the worse the movie is. Inspector Gadget - a horrible, horrible movie with some of the best Pittsburgh photography ever. Smart People - a surprisingly bad movie with very good Pittsburgh photography.

By contrast, The Wonder Boys - a terrific movie that celebrates Pittsburgh architecture, but you'd have no clue you were in Pittsburgh except that the characters talk about being in Pittsburgh. The Road - shot mostly outside of Pittsburgh, has one or two neighborhood shots that makes the city, very appropriately, look like a post-apocalyptic mess.

Oh, the one exception to this, up until now, has been Carl Kurlander's My Tale of Two Cities, a charming documentary about Pittsburgh with great photography of the city. This is finally getting a formal theatrical release in Pittsburgh at the end of March - go see it!

She's Out of My League has great Pittsburgh photography and some excellent shots of the city from Mt. Washington. And they managed to keep the homeless people and drug addicts out of Market Square for a couple of days. Market Square actually looks like a place where adults would want to hang out after dark, proof that you can Hollywoodize almost anything.

This is not a brilliant script, but it is funny enough, especially the first half. As is usual with such movies, the male characters are a little better drawn than the female characters, who are generally cyphers. Nate Torrance is a particular stand-out as the only married guy of the bunch. For most of the movie, the writers seemed to be writing about sexuality and attraction as very horny virgins, but the characters were supposed to be in their 20s and at least somewhat sexually experienced. I supposed that's because the target audience is clearly teenagers. So the angst level is ratcheted up beyond all reason in places.

Still, even if you're not generally fan of the 20-something sex comedy or of movies that make Pittsburgh look like a great place to live (which, of course it is but people outside of town often don't know that), there might be enough silly jokes in this movie to make it a worthwhile diversion.

Steeltown Film Factory: The Director's Pitch

2010-02-20T15:01:00.000-05:00

I wrote three weeks ago about how much I enjoyed going to the table reading of the 10 short film scripts judged qualifiers for the next round of the Steeltown Film Factory's script contest. Today, I went to the Director's Pitch seminar, which brought back the script finalists. Two of scripts I thought were particularly good were among the five finalists:

"Lightweight" and "Roll the Dice"

The other three finalists were "The Losing End," "Making Arrangements" and "Anywhere but Here."

Each of the finalists had 20 minutes to pitch their projects to Pittsburgh natives active in the film/TV business: Jamie Widdoes (director 2 1/2 Men), Heide Waldbaum (technical production for Spiderman 2/3, Avatar) and Lisa Smith (The People Speak, Project Greenlight). These industry professionals would then evaluate the project and the pitch and choose three semi-finalists for the next part of the competition.

Going into the pitch, Carl Kurlander, who moderated the event, stressed the importance of using the pitch to sell yourself and your passion for the project as much as the project itself. This turned out to be very true: of the five presentations, the two strongest "sellers" became finalists. However, I have to add that the two strongest sellers also had the best scripts. Some of the other finalists seemed to wander a bit.

After the pitches and some initial feedback by the evaluators, they retired to discuss the projects in more detail, and returned later to name the winners:

"Anywhere But Here," "Lightweight" and "Roll the Dice"

At the end of March, there will be a third "competition" among these scripts, and Steeltown will select whether to help fund one, two or all three projects.

A Report on the Steeltown Film Factory Script Contest and Reading

2010-01-30T16:28:00.005-05:00

I went to Steeltown Film Factory's Script Contest and Reading today. I think Carl, Jodi, Kris and the rest of the Steeltown team have done many interesting things related to promoting filmmaking in Pittsburgh over the last few years. While I did not have anything entered in the contest, I was curious to hear other people's short scripts be read and evaluated. The contest, which ran in November and December of last year, attracted 110 entries and announced 10 semi-finalists. Based on today's judging, there will be five finalists who'll be given a week to revise their scripts based on judges' comments (and, one hopes, the audience's reactions).

Drama students from CMU table-read the scripts. Final script judges were Asher Garfinkel, President of Readers Unlimited, Author, Screenplay Analysis: The Art and the Business, Bernie Goldman, Producer, 300, Land of the Dead, Minette Seate, Senior Producer, WQED Multimedia, and Laura Harkcon who co-wrote The Lost Room. It was very interesting to hear the judge's reactions to the scripts.

I wasn't a judge, and I liked all 10 of the semi-finalist scripts presented. But, in my opinion, these were the four best scripts of the day:

"N'At" by Adriana Ramires. The strongest script of the semifinalists, with the riskiest theme - when is a rape a rape? And how does the rapist deal with it? Very good characterizations, good sense of place.
"Jed the Humanoid" by Nate Minier. A fantasy about a robot who lands in 1996 and tries to adjust. Very funny; think of it as The Terminator turned inside out. The two stoners Jed winds up with were right out of "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure." You can even friend Jed on Facebook!
"Roll the Dice" by Lawrence Phillips, Dave Fedor, Joe Wincgryk, II and John Freightner (AKA the comedy team Hustlebot). A script by four guys submitted to a contest about four guys who won a script contest and took their winnings to a casino to try to win more...Hysterical in places, and self-referential in a Charlie Kaufman kind of way.
"Lightweight" by Randy Kovitz & Deborah Hosking. A young woman returns to Pittsburgh after her father dies, and sees the clash between classic Yinzers and the rest of the world. Nice touch of magical realism, many good jokes about South Siders.

The contest judges will select five finalists, and I'll link to the list when they're announced.

I plan to go to the next Steeltown reading, which will be February 20th at Pitt, and see to how the five finalists revised their scripts. Steeltown will have information on that upcoming event soon!

Trailer for She's Out of My League Is Out - Movie Due Out 3/12/10

2010-01-10T18:43:00.000-05:00

The trailer for She's Out of My League, that was shot here in Pittsburgh in spring 2008, has been released.

League trailer.

The trailer looks reasonably sharp, and Pittsburgh looks great!

However, IMDB also had an early poster up, and, sorry to say it, the poster looks awful.

Were you one of the thousands of extras to work on League? Want to have a premiere party when the movie's out? Leave a comment on this post, let's see what we can work out.

Next Three Days Wraps Up Local Shooting

2009-12-20T08:34:00.000-05:00

Paul Haggis's thriller The Next Three Days has finished up local shooting. They shot all over the county and above the county (the memorable
helicopter blitz of downtown in early November). The Next Three Days stars Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks and Liam Neeson.

CBS' Three Rivers "On Hiatus"

2009-11-30T21:51:00.000-05:00

Three Rivers is "on hiatus." It may not be cancelled yet (there are a few unaired episodes) but it's unlikely to be renewed.

I wanted to like this show, but came to the conclusion it would have made a much better made for TV movie than a series.

The Road Will Have a Midnight Show Next Tuesday

2009-11-20T08:13:00.001-05:00

If you've been following the long and winding story of the production and distribution of The Road, you know that the release has been delayed a few times. What was supposed to be a "wide" release on November 25 has been restricted to 31 cities.

Luckily, Pittsburgh is one of those cities. And, Fandango has just announced that there will be a midnight show over at the AMC in Homestead on Tuesday night.

I'm really looking forward to seeing this. I'll probably have to wait until Wednesday to see it (I haveinsomnia, and driving the 30+ miles home at 2am doesn't appeal to me). But that'll be fine.

[[I did manage to see the movie, was generally impressed, and wrote this review. I liked the movie a little better when I saw it a second time a few weeks later.]]