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Post by terezoulini on May 16, 2012 22:59:48 GMT -5
I walked by the White House today. Four helicopters, two planes and four fighter jets suddenly came flying by. It was rather cool. But being here makes me even more curious about this movie. They have to shoot portions of it in Washington, DC. I think with many eclectic neighborhoods Gerry would love to stay here for a few weeks. And they are really into bicycling which Gerry would enjoy. That must be a fairly new trend, I didn't notice it on my last trip here a few years ago. I think there will be some shooting in Washington as well. The 6-7 weeks they have announced for Shreveport doesn't seem enough time for a film like this. My guess is they will shoot studio work in Shreveport and do some external shooting in Washington as well.
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Post by elenoire on May 19, 2012 12:28:52 GMT -5
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-millennium-strikes-financing-deal-326827Cannes 2012: Millennium Strikes $150 Million Co-Financing Deal With West Coast Film Partners The three-year production and financing deal calls for the partners to make three wide releases per year. CANNES -- Gerard Butler action pic White House Taken will be the first film to fall under a newly announced $100 million co-financing and co-production deal struck between Millennium Films and West Coast Film Partners. The three-year pact -- announced in Cannes, where Millennium's White House Taken is being shopped to foreign buyers -- calls for the partners to turn out three wide releases per year. Antoine Fuqua is directing White House Taken. "We're very excited to be working with Klay and his team at West Coast. Clearly, they have financing expertise. But also the movies they want to make are very much in line with the direction we're taking our company today," Millennium chairman Avi Lerner said. West Coast Film is an equity fund and production company based in Germany, the U.K. and Los Angeles. "At a time when so many companies in the film business are rentrenching, the these guys are expanding. We share their optimisim about the potential for growth and success in the motion picture business in the years ahead, if properly managed," said West Coast CEO Klay Shroedel. In White House Taken, Butler plays a Secret Service agent who has fallen from grace -- until the White House is attacked and taken over by a team of North Koreans armed with extraordinary technology. Everything the Pentagon throws at the problem fails and it falls on Butler's character, who knows the famous building like nobody else, to save the president and the country. Millennium develops, finances and produces eight to 10 films per year, including the upcoming The Expendables 2, Playing the Field, also starring Butler, and Lee Daniels' The Paperboy, which is playing in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and stars Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, John Cusack and Nicole Kidman. The co-financing and co-producing deal was negotiated on behalf of Millennium by Lerner and his partner Trevor Short, along with Millennium president Mark Gill -- who initially put it together with Schroedel -- and business and legal affairs head Lonnie Ramati. Shroedel, West Coast president Stefan Gray and Gary Concoff of Troy Gould negotiated on behalf of West Coast. Gerry in Cannes
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Post by elenoire on May 20, 2012 3:56:01 GMT -5
content.usatoday.com/communities/livefrom/post/2012/05/gerard-butler-cannes-charity-auction-reject/1The interesting part is when he speaks about training and bulking up for the movie... Sometimes even Hollywood stars get a little rejection. Scottish stud Gerard Butler got some after he was reluctantly brought onstage at the star-studded "Carnival in Cannes Gala for Haitian Relief" on Friday night. Director Paul Haggis thought his presence would help sweeten the pot for the big prize -- a Golden Globe weekend pass. Haggis figured that offering tea with Butler to a potential bidder would help push the package -- which offered tickets to the best parties during Golden Globes weekend -- into a much higher range. But the final bidder ended up buying the package and insisting, very loudly, that he didn't want Butler as part of it. Final purchase price was more than $125,000. Total Butler added value: $0. Ouch! Butler told USA TODAY on Saturday that it was all in good fun. "I know the guy that bought it, he didn't need to buy tea with me," he laughed. But he admitted that Haggis has made a fool of him before by dragging him onstage for auctions. "No one has the ability to make a fool of me like Paul Haggis. He makes me come up and stand on stage. He makes me feel like an idiot," said Butler. "I think most of my most humiliating experiences in my whole career have been caused by Paul Haggis. He pimps me out." "I put up with it because it's for a good cause," he added. The auction raised more than $2 million in charity for Haiti. Actor Sean Penn is just one of the celebrities pushing for greater aid to the earthquake-torn country. Butler spoke from a party for his new film White House Taken, in which he'll star as an heroic Secret Service agent protecting the President from a terrorist attack. "It's a Lethal Weapon/Die Hard unapologetic action movie," said Butler. He's vowed to get in action-star shape for the upcoming role. "I just kind of started, I don't want to get too big," said the star of the action-classic 300. "But definitely more cut." It should definitely help him on the auction block.
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Post by lylak on May 20, 2012 12:23:32 GMT -5
I wouldn't bet them on doing much in DC and its longer than 6-7 weeks. It's filming July thru to end of Sep. That's more like a full film schedule. They may only need to do basic White House shots with nothing involving the actors since most of the action will be in doors.
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Post by dawne27 on May 20, 2012 15:39:30 GMT -5
www.indiewire.com/article/cannes-millennium-films-and-west-coast-film-partners-launch-100-million-collaboration-with-white-house-takenCANNES: Millennium Films and West Coast Film Partners Launch $100 Million Collaboration With 'White House Taken'Millennium Films decided to dress up its Saturday-night Croisette party on Baoli Beach with $100 million worth of decoration.While ostensibly celebrating the company’s new Gerard Butler action thriller “White House Taken,” Millennium chairman Avi Lerner took the opportunity to announce a new three-year, $100-million co-financing and co-production partnership with West Coast Film Partners. The deal calls for the two companies to collaborate on two or three films per year beginning with the Antoine Fuqua-directed “White House Taken,” which features Butler as a disgraced Secret Service agent who fights back when North Koreans take over the White House. Lerner, partner Trevor Short, Mark Gill and Lonnie Ramati negotiated the deal for Millennium with West Coast CEO Klay Shroedel and president Stefan Gray, and Gary Concoff of Troy Gould on behalf of West Coast, an equity fund and production company based in Germany, the U.K. and L.A. “We’re very excited to be working with Klay and his team at West Coast,” said Lerner. “Clearly, they have financing expertise. But also the movies they want to make are very much in line with the direction we’re taking our company today.” Shroedel added: “The team at Millennium impressed us with their commercial sensibilities and their willingness and ability to get movies made. At a time when so many companies in the film business are retrenching, these guys are expanding. We share their optimism about the potential for growth and success in the motion picture business, if properly managed, in the years ahead.” Millennium will next release “The Expendables 2,” “Playing The Field” and “The Paperboy,” which is playing in competition at the Cannes Film Festival this week. another good article from variety online: www.variety.com/article/VR1118054370?refCatId=13Millennium, West Coast pact coin, co'prods Fuqua pic first up in deal; stars Gerard Butler By Dave McNary" Avi Lerner's Millennium Films has inked a three-year $100 million agreement with West Coast Film Partners to co-finance and co-produce two to three wide-release features per year. Partnership, announced Saturday at Cannes, kicks off with "White House Taken," directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Gerard Butler. Actioner centers on a U.S. Secret Service agent who has fallen from grace -- until the White House is attacked and taken over by North Koreans armed with extraordinary technology. The agent becomes the last chance to save the president. The financing deal was put together by Millennium prexy Mark Gill and West Coast CEO Klay Shroedel. "We're very excited to be working with Klay and his team at West Coast," said Lerner in a statement. "Clearly, they have financing expertise. But also the movies they want to make are very much in line with the direction we're taking our company." Millennium finances, produces and distributes eight to 10 films a year. Upcoming pics include "The Expendables 2," "Playing the Field" and "The Paperboy," which plays in Cannes competition. West Coast Film Partners is an equity fund and production company with offices in L.A., the U.K. and Germany. Agreement was negotiated by Lerner and his partner Trevor Short along with Gill and Lonnie Ramati on behalf of Millennium, and by Shroedel, Stefan Gray and Gary Concoff of TroyGouldon behalf of West Coast. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com" it seems these private equity funding is 'the' way of business esp. with fed. tax breaks given to investors. there should be more clarity by govt re: state tax breaks & incentives...there's the gist!!
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Post by mak on May 20, 2012 15:47:16 GMT -5
Hi dawne27 I think it's just "The Paperboy" that's slotted for Cannes But the other stuff is good news to me
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Post by dawne27 on May 20, 2012 16:14:51 GMT -5
hi mak - yep (i deleted last comment after a little digging further 'paperboy' was at cannes, not PTF)... it looks like millenium is involved with equity fund west coast co-producer which seems truly the 21st c. way to go...inthat these companies formed can now also invite many more smaller investors who want the federal / state tax breaks & incentives. almost similiar to the insurance world 'law of large numbers'...facebook tried to do that recently selling stock so cheap....this is not only good for the larger multimillion films but the smaller, independent documentaries to include pre-production R&D.....yippy!!
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Post by terezoulini on May 20, 2012 16:49:02 GMT -5
I wouldn't bet them on doing much in DC and its longer than 6-7 weeks. It's filming July thru to end of Sep. That's more like a full film schedule. They may only need to do basic White House shots with nothing involving the actors since most of the action will be in doors. The last schedule we saw for Shreveport said filming started July 2nd and went on until August 19. I assumed that was only Shreveport schedule with maybe more shooting elsewhere to be announced at a later stage. Have you seen something different about Shreveport? I may have missed a post.
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Post by lylak on May 20, 2012 19:29:01 GMT -5
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Post by Dianne on May 24, 2012 6:48:55 GMT -5
Thanks Fifi crazymoviepeople.com/blog2/2012/05/22/gerard-butler-hypes-his-upcoming-movie-slate/Gerard Butler Hypes His Upcoming Movie Slate Gerard Butler has been quiet over the last two years. In Butler’s own words: “I haven’t actually done any badass stuff since Gamer in 2007. People think I’m this action guy, because of 300, but I went off and made a Shakespeare movie (Coriolanus) and Machine Gun Preacher. And nobody saw them, so I thought, ‘Screw this – I’m going to go make some big fuck off movies! Therefore, you can expect to see Butler’s face everywhere over the next few years as he is currently filming (or about to film) a handful of big-budget action films. During an interview with Empire at The Cannes Film Festival, Butler took the opportunity to hype a few of the bigger films on his slate: White House Taken (the rumored title): “That’s (the title) not yet confirmed,” he says. “But the story is really fun. North Korean terrorists come down the Mall in a bloody cargo plane and also attack the White House from the inside. It’s insane, but you buy it, you go with it. It’s action-packed all the way through — a traditional, classic, unapologetic, big action movie. It’s Die Hard in the White House.” Motor City: “That’s more like French Connection: down, dirty and extremely violent,” Butler says. “It’s me going head to head with Gary (Oldman). I don’t know him well, but I met him many years ago, when I was first starting out, and he was very, very kind to me.” Thunder Run: “It’s about the initial attack on Baghdad, as US troops went in with a column of tanks called the Thunder Run — and it’s going to be done like Avatar,” Butler says. “My face and body will be recorded with little cameras and everything else will be CGI, painted in in the background. I’ve never read a script with more action, more explosions, more violence. If you didn’t do it like this, it would cost $300 million. I saw a three-minute test-piece and it blew my balls off.”
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Post by elenoire on May 30, 2012 15:21:52 GMT -5
www.ksla.com/story/18649418/construction-begins-in-bossier-city-on-white-house-replica-movie-setBOSSIER CITY, LA (KSLA) - Construction on a replica of the White House is under way in Bossier City for the latest movie production to come to Hollywood South. The set will be located in a field next to the CenturyLink Center at Arthur Ray Teague Parkway and Walker Place. As a result, Walker Place has been reduced to one lane (eastbound) for the duration of the construction. It's not clear how long that will take. Walker Place will be also made to look like Pennsylvania Avenue. Some additional road closures are expected when filming when filming begins in July. The White House facade is for the new Millennium Films project featuring Scottish actor Gerard Butler. Due to a conflict involving international distribution rights, the film's original title, "Olympus Has Fallen," has been changed to "White House Taken." The production will bring the "300" star back to the area for a second time since filming the romantic comedy "Playing The Field" with Jessica Biel, currently in post-production and due out in December. Now he'll play an ex-Secret Service agent fighting to defend the Capitol building from terrorists. Filming is expected to begin in July and continue through August. "It's a very big project," said Millennium Films president Diego Martinez when confirming the project in early May. "The tag line I've seen is 'Die Hard in the White House,' is what they're calling it," so it should be very very exciting." Martinez says it will be the biggest project Millennium ("The Expendables," "Righteous Kill") has done in Louisiana to date, and that they are in the process of signing yet another big name to portray the president in the movie. Olympus is set for release in 2014.
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Post by dawne27 on May 31, 2012 13:23:57 GMT -5
www.onlocationvacations.com/2012/05/29/nola-filming-updates-sets-being-built-for-white-house-taken-starring-gerard-butler-emma-watson-filming-end-of-the-world-next-week/NOLA Filming Updates: Sets being built for ‘White House Taken’ starring Gerard Butler, Emma Watson filming ‘End of the World’ next week by Christine on May 29, 2012 According to KSLA, construction on a replica of the White House has started in Bossier City, LA for the movie White House Taken. The set will be located in a field next to the CenturyLink Center at Arthur Ray Teague Parkway and Walker Place. Walker Place will be also made to look like Pennsylvania Avenue…Some additional road closures are expected when filming when filming begins in July. In the film, Gerard Butler stars as an ex-Secret Service agent fighting to defend the Capitol building from terrorists. Filming in Bossier City is expected to begin in July and continue through August. In other Louisiana filming news, Emma Watson will shoot her cameo in Seth Rogen’s The End of the World around New Orleans next week. Though we don’t know exactly where the the movie is filming yet, we know they have been shooting in Old Jefferson and Elmwood, LA. If you spot The End of the World filming in NOLA, let us know about it at olv@onlocationvacations.com!
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Post by Dianne on May 31, 2012 17:27:12 GMT -5
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Post by elenoire on Jun 2, 2012 2:35:10 GMT -5
www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20120602/NEWS01/206020332/Bossier-City-already-seeing-economic-benefits-from-upcoming-film?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGEThe upcoming Millennium Films' production "White House Taken" is already pumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into the local economy, area businesses and film officials say. The action thriller starring Gerard Butler is set to be filmed at multiple Shreveport and Bossier City locations this summer, one of which will feature a partial façade of the White House. Construction of the replica structure — an estimated 55 feet tall and 20 feet wide — started last month on Bossier City property adjacent to the CenturyLink Center, putting local carpenters, painters and contractors to work, Bossier City film liaison Pam Glorioso said. "We're excited that they're doing local hires of vendors and contractors," Glorioso said. "It's putting people locally to work because of the film industry. And that is what it's all about." A large chunk of the film's budget will go into the local economy in the form of labor and materials, Millennium Studios President Diego Martinez said. Martinez would not disclose the film's budget, but industry reports estimate it at $50 million. "Our policy is always to hire and buy local first," Martinez said, adding this is one of Millennium's largest Louisiana productions. Martinez said he heard construction would require about 60 jobs but estimates the number could be higher than that. In addition to the White House façade, the Bossier City location will include a replica of the National Mall, an open-area national park in downtown Washington, D.C. The National Mall replica will be across from the White House replica along Walker Place. Martinez said there could be additional sets at the Bossier City location, but that is still being determined. Construction on the structures could run beyond the start of filming in July, he said. "This is definitely a big budget film compared to some of the other things they've done," said JoJo Lacy, the general contractor on the Bossier City set. Lacy, who owns Custom Construction and Remodeling and Advanced Elevator Service, said he is organizing a plethora of site construction from dirt to electrical work. "They're spending their money with locally owned small companies, and that is a big deal," Lacy said. "The money we make on this job actually stays in this area." James Landers with Drainbusters Landers Plumbing said the construction of the film sets is great for the community. "A lot of friends of ours are working as carpenters on the set, and they're happy to be there because they had been sitting at home," he said. "It's definitely bringing some jobs." Landers said his company has been busy this week putting in hundreds of feet of water lines to hook into water hoses to put out fires created from special effects. In addition to the money spent directly on set construction, Lacy said money is being in the form of crew meals and power to the site. "This is a huge economic boost for Bossier City and Shreveport," he said. "White House Taken" will be directed by Antoine Fuqua and depicts a former secret service agent (Butler) as he works to prevent a terrorist attack on the White House.
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Post by fifiserafino on Jun 6, 2012 4:59:20 GMT -5
710keel.com/white-house-taken-filming-to-start-soon-in-shreveport-bossier/“White House Taken” Filming to Start Soon in Shreveport-Bossier[/size] Another big film comes to Shreveport-Bossier…and a big celebrity makes a repeat appearance for it. “White House Taken” is scheduled to begin filming next month. It stars Gerard Butler, whose first local movie-making experience was during shooting of “Playing the Field.” Arlena Acree with the local film office tells me there’s a replica of the White House being constructed near CenturyLink Center (see photo), Huntington Park Golf Course on Pines Road will serve as the White House lawn, and Arthur Ray Teague Parkway in Bossier becomes Pennsylvania Avenue for the film. She says there will be lots of explosions and action-packed scenes — but those shouldn’t cause the roadway to be shut down. However, there may be traffic interruptions from time to time. We should see plenty of locals cast as extras in this movie. This is just one of many film projects for our area during the upcoming summer. We’ll keep you updated on others!
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