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| The Bourbon Room? |
A few years ago,
Jason Handelsman wrote: "The outskirts of Miami's Overtown hood are becoming a gentrified version of the Sunset Strip in LA." And now it's actually happened.
New Line Cinema is shooting the film adaptation of a hit Broadway musical called
Rock Of Ages entirely in South Florida, and the producers have turned NE 14th Street at North Miami Avenue into a movie set centering around
Eve,
Bar, and the
Vagabond. They built the
Roxy Theatre, the Bam and Jazzari, the
Sun Bee, a tattoo shop, a gas station, and a couple more locations out of the old warehouses that line the corridor.
Here are some more pics and production details about the motherfuckin' musical.
The film stars Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Catherine Zeta Jones, Paul Giamatti, Mary J.
Blige, Bryan Cranston, Russell Brand, Malin Akerman, and Julianne Hough. And we're pretty sure most of them like to get fucked up and listen to music. So if you see them around, you already know.
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| Drunk drivers welcome. |
The film is directed by Adam Shankman, who did the musical version of John Waters's cult favorite
Hairspray.
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| East on 14th Street. |
The movie tells the story of a small-town girl and a city slicker who meet in Hollywood while pursuing dreams of fame and glory.
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| Hollywood, biatch. |
The crew has been shooting up in Broward, shutting down the Boulevard, and casting extras off the street, and in a cattle call at
America's Backyard.
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| The doors don't open, and lead nowhere. |
Supposedly filming in Downtown Miami starts in July and the producers will be shutting down the whole block for it.
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| Slow head on the fire escape? |
We can only hope there will be plenty of sex and drugs in this movie.
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| The streets of Miami are paved in gold. |
If we get a chance to drink a tall can of Natural Ice with Catherine Zeta Jones and smoke some downtown brown, that would be cool too.
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| Looking south on North Miami Ave |
Hey, "The Movies," thanks for coming to the city. Our sunlight is better than LA's anyway. We heard you're spending more money on this production than anybody ever has in Miami. That's cool, we need that type of shit. See you in the streets.
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