Photos by Steven
Crews for Amazon MGM's holiday movie, "The Man With the Bag," will film in parts of the East Village tomorrow.
We've spotted filming notices along Avenue A from Seventh Street to 10th Street... and St. Mark's Place, Ninth Street, and 10th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...
The plot for the action comedy, per IMDB: "When Santa's magic bag is stolen, he turns to his naughty list to find Vance, a former thief, to help him get it back."
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Santa and "Reacher"'s Alan Ritchson is Vance. (The production has been filming around NYC in recent weeks.)
And thinking about other large-scale shoots in the neighborhood in the last 30+ years... Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson filming on Avenue A and Tompkins Square Park for 1995's "Die Hard With a Vengeance."
Also, Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino at Most Holy Redeemer on Third Street for 1997's "The Devil's Advocate" ... and Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman on 10th Street/Stuyvesant Street for 2005's "The Interpreter." What else?
5 comments:
It was so cool to have seen Samuel L. Jackson sitting on the fence on Ave A when they were filming the Diehard movie. Also, I remember seeing Al Pacino at the Church of the Holy Redeemer. He was playing the devil, but I don't remember what movie it was.
The Devil's Advocate (1997 film).
The Devil's Advocate is mentioned in the last paragraph... as is The Interpreter.
Leshko’s, Ray’s, and Alphabets all get cameos in that Die Hard With A Vengeance science!
https://youtu.be/vvgsjTMCP64?si=Ds349yn8K39_AxLZ
First episode of recent streaming version of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Donald Glover and Maya Erskine chat on a bench by Ave. B/E9th entrance. You can see the ping-pong in the background. And "Life and Beth" filmed on March 24, 2023. No idea what it was, but I have a photo of the sign.
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