Is Cleveland Becoming a Filmmaking Mecca?
FREE! TAKE ONE! atronize Our Advertisers Please P FAIRVIEW PARK & ROCKY RIVER COMMUNITIES | VOL 01, ISSUE 4 | OCTOBER 2013 Is Cleveland Becoming a Filmmaking Mecca? BY BRIAN LUMLEY A new Katie Holmes’ film, “Miss office. This time, however, Meadows,” wrapped production in Wyatt auditioned in front n 1940 Cleveland was the fifth- Cleveland a few weeks ago. Unlike the of both the director and Ilargest city in the nation. But since Marvel movies “Captain America 2: The the executive producer of the post-war years, Cleveland has lost Winter Soldier” and “The Avengers,” the film. much of its industry, more than half almost all of the crew and much of the Deneen notes that its population and, more important, its cast were pulled from Northeast Ohio. “hundreds of kids” were sense of identity. Miss Holmes, a Toledo native, worked seen for the role. A third Like many other post-industrial cities, with a cast and crew that were 90% local phone call prompted a Cleveland has been trying to reinvent talent. downtown meeting with itself. It hasn’t been easy. Once known Young Wyatt Koehler, a nine-year-old the film’s creative team as a manufacturing powerhouse, we’ve from Fairview Park, sees the silver screen and it made a decision: become known as a “foodie” town. The in his future. He and his mother Deneen Although everyone loved cuisine draws people from all over the responded to an open “Miss Meadows” Wyatt, the team felt that, region to sample culinary delights, the casting call in early August. Upon at nine years old, he was list of which has grown larger than the arrival at the film’s offices, Wyatt was just too old to believably stalwart pierogies and brats found in asked which role he was auditioning for.
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