Hudsonwood Returns

haute cuisine goes hungry / the h.s. popularity subsidy / warholarrhea doesn’t pay / selena roberts on defense

Tax > topicIntelligencerThreatened credits for writers’ and producers Writers’ actors’ strikes take effect strike from previous begins Tax-credit Hudsonwood Returns year slow fund 35000 35,000 production runs nearly No new TV shows were shot in the city during this year’s 30000 empty pilot25000 season (versus nineteen last year), as producers 25,000 waited20000 to see whether a state-tax-break fund refueled. But15000 with a March 31 agreement topping it off again with 15,000 $35010000 million in taxpayer money, the streets are once again5000 alive with the sound of people taping up those little 5,000 0 pastel flyers that announce movie shoots. ’99 ’00 ’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 ’07 ’08 Here, a guide to the action. total number of days filmed on location in the city

what’s shooting right now

✤ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice ✚ l Twelve Adaptation of novel Nicolas Cage–starring version “Daniel was happy by former Riverdale Country of sequence from Fantasia. to have us show the School student about a preppy restaurant in the film, ✚ Salt Angelina Jolie (below) plays but there were no drug dealer; stars Chace ★ a CIA officer accused of treason. restrictions. It wasn’t like Crawford and 50 Cent. A crash during ★ product placement; ❉ ✱ ★ The Baster Jennifer Aniston a Sorcerer’s the restaurant was just Untitled Nancy Meyers Apprentice car there, playing itself.” Project Romantic comedy with impregnates herself with chase injured l ✤ —Morgans a turkey baster that her best Times Square Alec Baldwin, Meryl Streep, l production designer ❉ l and Steve Martin. bystanders l Kevin Thompson friend, Jason Bateman, secretly l ❉ filled with his own sperm. ❉ ❉ Did You Hear About the ★ (Really!) ★ ★ ★ Morgans? Sarah Jessica Parker ✤ ✱ ✦ Fair Game Based on Valerie ✚ and Hugh Grant star as a couple Plame scandal; directed by who join the witness protection program when they see a murder. Doug Liman, starring Naomi ★ ★★ (NYC shoots ended April 28.) Watts and Sean Penn. The city has a three- month moratorium ✤ ✚ on shoots that require street parking in South l ★ Williamsburg after ★ ✤ residents complained ★ ✚ of overfilming ✚ ✦

✚ photograph by arnaldo magnani/getty images

may 18, 2009 | new york