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Archive for December, 2009
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The filming of a Hollywood movie is moving to the Village of Kenmore on Friday.
Filming is expected to start within hours at Jinlan’s Chinese restaurant on Delaware Avenue here in Kenmore.
On Thursday, camera crews headed north to shoot the scene of Keanu Reeves’ character’s first date in the romantic back drop of Niagara Falls.
Henry’s Crime star, Keanu Reeves was shooting the scene of his first date with actress Vera Farmiga at Prospect Point, known as a romantic spot with breathtaking views.
Angela Berti of the New York State Parks said, "This is it, it always is. And now the world will know that even more than they already do."
Earlier in the day, the two characters met, when Farmiga hit Reeves with a car at Main and Huron in downtown Buffalo.
Local emergency responders have gotten a front row seat throughout the filming.
They’ve been on hand to make sure that the Queen City’s chill doesn’t cause any health problems or injuries.
Dr. Lou Irmisch explained, "Basically, it’s the concern with ice and slippery conditions, especially when they start doing the special effects and the stunts."
Filming is expected to begin early Friday morning at Jinlan’s restaurant in Kenmore.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – It’s been a bit of a crazy day in Buffalo with Keanu Reeves’ film crew taking over part of downtown.
News 4 cameras caught Keanu Reeves and important scenes from the movie Henry’s Crime, downtown Wednesday morning.
Masked men displaying silver handguns and a police officer yelling "Freeze," are among the scenes that took place on Main Street.
"I can’t really say but I suspect this will be a pretty big part of the movie," said Buffalo Niagara Film Commissioner TIm Clark.
Clark knows the movie inside and out. He spent the last several weeks on set and calls the experience, "fun, yet challenging."
"A lot of little details going into these type of things, street closures, there’s things like removal of street signs, you know, a variety of things that have to be done to make Buffalo picture perfect and ready to go, " said Clark.
As a result of the movie, the NFTA suspended its rail service Wednesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. between the Fountain Plaza and Church Street stations. Riders will have access to shuttles.
Dozens of Buffalo Police securing the permitter have a front-row seats. However, Wednesday morning officers had a tough time determining who was who. They say a couple people with the film crew weren’t wearing their credentials.
Inspector Joseph Strano called it a "very short problem." He said, "Any issues were resolved very quickly."
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – The lights of Tinseltown are shining on downtown Buffalo as filming begins for Keanu Reeves new movie, which is set right here in the queen city.
Very exciting down here on Main Street. Guns were drawn here! Of course, it’s Hollywood.
The movie Henry’s Crime has Keanu Reeves falsely accused of robbing a bank. Now here’s what we got to look at today. You’ll see him getting some makeup. He is in the getaway car, but his character doesn’t really know that at this point.
Here’s the action that took place. Masked gunmen holding up the old Buffalo Savings Bank. Bank guards chasing them, guns everywhere. This is the scene that greeted a light rail operator who knew a movie was being shot, but she thought the holdup was real.
"When I first came down, a guy was running toward me with a gun," explained Darlene Quick, NFTA light rail operator. "I said, ‘oh my god, he’s going to shoot me!’"
Tim Clark, Buffalo-Niagara Film Commissioner, said, "The police really went through a very comprehensive briefing on what was going to happen here because we had to make sure, really, that all the police knew that this was part of the movie and not in real life."
The area was locked down for the shooting of the scene, which was only a bit of inconvenience.
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Filming continues today on "Henry’s Crime", and Wednesday actor Keanu Reeves along with the director and producer of the film met with local leaders and the media.
Buffalo Police are looking for a murder suspect after a body was discovered in Roosevelt Park Wednesday night. The victim is a black male, believed to be in his late teens to early twenties.
A couple in North Tonawanda are behind bars after police say they used a telephone chat line to lure men to their home and rob them.
Watch the video to see all the morning headlines, and stay with Eyewitness News and WKBW.com for the latest news and weather throughout the day.
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The filming of the Keanu Reeves movie “Henry’s Crime” is going to inconvenience some Metro Rail riders this week.
Service on the aboveground section between Fountain Plaza and Church Street will be suspended from 9 a.m. to 3 p. m. Wednesday and Thursday while a scene is shot on the transit line’s track bed, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority announced. This disruption may extend to Friday, the likely alternate day for filming, the authority said.
Shuttle buses will be available to move passengers to the next station in each direction while the movie crew is busy on the tracks. Trains will operate without interruption between the Erie Canal Harbor station and Church Street and Fountain Plaza and the University station during filming, and the entire line will be in service before and after each day’s suspension.
Before he started filming his latest movie in and around Buffalo, Keanu Reeves was already connected here in many ways, even if just somewhere within his subconscious.
Reeves — who is currently filming some of "Henry’s Crime" here — said in a phone interview this week that the decision to shoot in Buffalo came in part from the film’s writer, Sacha Gervasi. But there is evidence that Reeves was familiar with at least some of the area’s charms.
"[Gervasi] kind of had the idea of Buffalo; it was kind of an intuitive thing," said Reeves. "We were looking for toll booths. And Niagara Falls kind of came up for an important scene so Buffalo was the place."
But Reeves spent his youth in Toronto, from ages "7 to 20," he said.
"When I was in school, we’d go to the Falls," he said. "But we got [Buffalo's] local news — [his voice goes down an octave and goes up a few decibels] IRV WEINSTEIN!"
Also, one of the co-stars in "Henry’s Crime" is James Caan, whose debut as a director once brought him to Buffalo to make "Hide in Plain Sight." Caan, Reeves said, "speaks very fondly about it. He was there before everybody. He had a good experience and has a lot of friends there now."
Reeves also had acted in a movie that was directed by Robert Longo, a painter and Buffalo- educated artist who was one of the founders of Hallwalls Gallery.
"Another element in Buffalo," Reeves said, "is that part of our story deals with a Prohibition tunnel. And there’s so many tunnels and kinds of places underground in Buffalo, which I didn’t know before. You can go underground in some places and show up someplace else a few blocks later."
Buffalo Niagara Film Commissioner Tim Clark said Reeves was "awestruck" when he showed him a tunnel under the Town Ballroom on Main Street. Currently a bar and concert venue, the Town Ballroom was once the Town Casino — one of the city’s hottest nightspots beginning in the 1930s.
The tunnel, Clark said, begins under the club’s backstage area, goes "beneath Main Street" and ends up across the street in a parking lot.
"Presumably they’re haunted too," Clark said.
Reeves’ most famous exploration of Buffalo locations thus far, though, was his tour of the Erie County Holding Center, which was conducted before officials refused such a tour to federal investigators looking into conditions there.
Reeves said he was told later that he’d become a bit of a local political issue completely inadvertently.
"I heard something about it afterward, yeah," Reeves said. "All I can say is we met some really nice people. We just weren’t aware of the situation that ended up happening."
Does that signify anything about the power of Hollywood and people’s regard for its figures?
"I don’t know if that’s the power of Hollywood. A lot of times people work on a film and accidentally become part of something [local]. It was just a nice day and really nice of them to let us go in."
Reeves is not only starring in the romantic comedy about a man wrongfully accused of being a bank robber, but he’s also the film’s executive producer. Unlike some films in which Reeves is a well-paid hired hand, he said this one is a film that he developed from the beginning.
Another film with Reeves is opening in Buffalo this weekend, Rebecca Miller’s "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee." The film isn’t funny but he is very funny in it, and "Henry’s Crime" is also described as a romantic comedy from the star whose early career was known for the likes of "Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure."
"It’s been a while, hasn’t it?" says Reeves of being funny again in the movies. "I really enjoy comedy. It’s a great pleasure to play it. It’s a little itchy because you don’t know whether other people are going to find it funny, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take. It’s just something I enjoy."
Filming was also planned for "Henry’s Crime" in New York City and its suburbs, and filming was reportedly due to be wrapped up before Christmas.
Nothing will be confirmed just yet by the folks in Village Hall, but it is the talk of the town, Keanu Reeves is in negotiations to shoot a scene for his upcoming film in Kenmore.
The matter was discussed in a work session before Tuesday’s Village Board meeting, but nothing official has been agreed upon.
What’s on the table though is a scene either inside or infront of JinLan Restaurant at the corner of Delaware and Parkwood Avenues.
Stewart Mednick owns The Buffalo Room, which is two doors up from JinLan. Mednick says Reeves was spotted in the neighborhood within the past few weeks. Mednick is hoping to serve up his specialties, Bison Burgers and Pterodachtyl Wings (Buffalo-style turkey wings) for the cast and crew.
No timeline has been discussed, but the filming could begin before the new year.
A Texas man said Amanda J. George gave him this photo, showing her with Robert Downey Jr., left, Woody Harrelson and Keanu Reeves on the set of the film "A Scanner Darkly." He said she told him she was a screenwriter.
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Robin Wright was relieved when it only took one take to film her sex scenes with Keanu Reeves.
Robin Wright was relieved when it only took one take to film her sex scenes with Keanu Reeves.
The ‘Forrest Gump’ actress – who recently ended her marriage to Sean Penn – found it hard to shoot parts of her new movie, ‘The Private Lives of Pippa Lee’, especially when her character had to make love to Keanu’s in the back of a truck.
She said: "Any kind of vulnerability is always hard to do. Just being exposed in that way is difficult. People say it’s hard to do those scenes revealing the blood and soul of your heart, crying. That’s easy-peasy for me. Intimacy is far more challenging. Thank God we did it in one take."
Robin also revealed she wants fans to start remembering her for her new movies rather than 1994′s ‘Forrest Gump’ and 1987′s ‘The Princess Bride’.
She told USA Today newspaper: "I love those movies, and they’re going to go down in history. They’re iconic. And I love that I’m a part of film history. But, it’s so then, and we’re now. It’s 20, 22 years ago. I’m interested in doing other things."
Keanu Reeves And Robin Wright Penn On Love
The "Secret Lives of Pippa Lee" co-stars weigh in on the concept of love coming and going. (11.25.09)
