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Somerville restaurant forced to shut early today due to movie filming
By adamg on Wed, 07/01/2015 - 5:03pm
Pennypackers in Magoun Square shut at 5 today because Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart are filming their movie outside. They're not being compensated for the lost business, though:
Because we were told we can stay open if we want- but they're shutting the street down to the public.
Via Drew Starr.
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Pretty slimy behavior...
... on the part of the film makers.
Maybe just a little clueless
but Patrick Maguire says it best--they should pay it back in sandwich love and appreciation. Pennypacker's makes a mean porchetta.
That was my first thought
Be a good guy and throw them some business
Simple
Tell the producers that you will be staying open, and you hope they don't mind your tradition of having all the wait staff and cooks come out onto the sidewalk and hammer on pots and pans for hours.
The Brinks Job
When they were filming on Prince Street, in order to make it look authentic, they paid one apartment dweller to remove their AC unit from the window, the only AC unit on the street.
Next day Prince Street was the Freon capital of the world with windows filled with AC units.
And cardboard boxes
Made to look like AC units. Great story
So we taxpayers are
So we taxpayers are subsidizing this movie that is hurting local businesses, and it's not even going to "showcase" MA since the movie is based in Pennsylvania, they are just filming here to take the tax subsidies.
Something fishy going on here.
Lots of movies have been filmed in MA over the past few years.
I have never heard of a situation like this. Most movie companies have been very accommodating and people have been well compensated.
Something is amiss here.
I guess...
The Rock won't know what that Somerville restaurant is cooking!
Well then
I will stop by tomorrow when I bike over for the fireworks at Trum Field, with some hungry teens in tow.
Maybe I'll see you
I'm chagrined that I've lived half a mile from this place for two years now and am just now learning of its existence...
Almost makes you kinda miss Local 25
The mobbed up Teamsters local out of Charlestown had all the local movie biz. They woulda shaken the movie company down enough to make up for this, and more.
Of course, they would have also shaken down the restaurant as well...
I'm pretty sure local 25 still exists
And they still do all the movies.
No need for such nonsense. Those days ended with the arrest of George Cashman 13 years ago.
The union makes a lot of money from movie companies.
If there was any nonsense the film companies would film elsewhere.
Oh, no..they're still there.
Drive by the Liberty Hotel any given morning and you'll see several white vans being driven by a bunch of old Local 25 hacks for the crew and the actors.
Limo companies only do the airport pickups, as the Teamsters vans are not permitted for Logan and woe unto you if you try and solicit anything away from those old basos who still wear Barracuta jackets and smoke Pall Malls.
Local 25 is still around,
Local 25 is still around, they were hurling racist and homophobic chants at the film crew of some reality tv show filming recently. I wish we could miss them because then they would be gone.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2730424/We-going-bash-face-f-w-B...
Banging Pots and Pans
Just a reminder, we TAXPAYERS are picking up 25% of the filming costs for these CHEAP BUSINESS CLOSING Hollywood producers through Massachusetts tax rebates.
Not that anyone in SOMERVILLE would do this, but citizens in NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES have learned
a good leaf blower will quickly get the attention of petty cash carrying LOCATION MANAGERS. Instead,
A call to
Lisa Strout, MA Film Office Director at (617) 973-8400
and to
Jackie Rosetti, Somerville Deputy Director of Communications
617-625-6600 ext. 2614
might help facilitate stopping the obnoxious, subsidized behavior of the production company @NewLine_Cinema
New Line Cinema, a division of Warner Bros., is making the movie. Tel: (310) 854-5811
New Line Brass 212-649-4900
Mr. Barry Meyer
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Toby Emmerich
President and Chief Operating Officer
Produced by
Hiram Garcia ... co-producer
Ed Helms ... executive producer
Peter Principato ... producer
Scott Stuber ... producer
Paul Young ... producer