From Broadway performers to local theater groups, Hollywood stars to indie filmmakers, national touring acts to bar bands, the pandemic had a devastating effect on the entertainment industry. The sudden shuttering of bars, concert halls, movie theaters and other venues — some permanently — led to widespread loss of revenue
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Abbi Jacobson developed and will star in A League of Their Own, a streaming series for Amazon that’s expected to film in Western Pennsylvania beginning in June.
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Actress D’Arcy Carden ( The Good Place ) will be among the stars of A League of Their Own, a streaming series for Amazon that’s expected to film in Western Pennsylvania beginning in June.
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A streaming series based on the 1992 movie “A League of Their Own,” about the first female professional baseball league, will film in Western Pennsylvania.
What makes Pittsburgh such an attractive movie location?
Tax credits for film companies are just the beginning, says Dawn Keezer, director of the Pittsburgh Film Office.
“We have such a diversity of locations. Pittsburgh can look like any place in the world,” she says. “The only things we don’t have are a beach and a desert.
“We do New York better than New York,” she says. “We’ve been San Francisco, Paris, Ukraine and Atlanta.”
There’s the beauty of the city viewed from the West End Overlook or Mt. Washington and downtown’s blend of modern and historical architecture, she says. Drive for an hour and you have mountains, small towns, farmland and other attractive settings.
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CMU School of Drama grad Brian Muller stars as Pags in the new Epix coming-of-age series “Bridge & Tunnel.”
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CMU School of Drama grad Brian Muller stars as Pags in the new Epix coming-of-age series Bridge & Tunnel.
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Netflix’s horror series “Archive 81” has been filming in and around Pittsburgh since November and will be joined in a couple of weeks by another Netflix program, “The Chair.” Showtime’s “Rust” expects to film in March.
“This was definitely bigger in terms of footprint and how many people were working,” Cozby said.
They set up last Monday and shot on Tuesday and Wednesday.
“We had people working on the film come into the store to shop,” said Cozby, whose store was closed from mid-March to the middle of May because of the pandemic.
He said the plan was to have the shop look like a record store in the 1990s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They set up some tables outside and used record bins and hung old posters from that era in the windows.