Friday, October 13, 2006
MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, "SMART PEOPLE," TO BE FILMED ON CAMPUS
Carnegie Mellon News 8 1/2 x 11 News: October 12, 2006: "The big screen is once again coming to campus, and this time Carnegie Mellon is getting top billing. 'Smart People,' starring Dennis Quaid as an eccentric Carnegie Mellon English professor; Rachel Weisz as his former student whom he falls in love with; and Mary Steenburgen—wife of Carnegie Mellon alumnus Ted Danson—as the English Department head's assistant, will be filming on campus during the weeks of Nov. 6 and Nov. 13. The film's producer is Michael London, whose credits include 'Sideways,' 'House of Sand and Fog' and 'The Illusionist.' Details regarding the production schedule and locations will be released when finalized."
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It's exciting theat CMU will be given more exposure. Good luck to the applicants after the release of this movie. It might create an increase in admissions as more people are aware of the school. Hopefully then people will stop thinking that CMU is in ohio.
Yeah, good exposure for the school, except that its about a teacher falling in love with an ex-student. Of coures the issue is, how long as an ex-student. It will be interesting to see what the University's and Pittsburgh's response will be to the film.
At the same time, if it is not a big release, it is not like we have small time actors coming to the campus. They are all fairly well know and this will create a good experience for those involved in production to witness.
It's more exciting that we may be able to observe some of the filming. I've only done theater and am curious about how film works.
Hopefully there will be no bug infestation with this CMU filming.
-Julianna Slaten
Yeah, the filming is a bit exciting, especially if we get to observe or assist in any way. The down side though is that it will create problems where ever they are filming. I know I have classes in most of the buildings on campus, so for those people that have classes where the filming needs to take place, there will be an inconvenience factor involved till they move on, or filming is complete.
The exposure is great for the school, well (except for the whole teacher falling in love with the student thing...hmm). This appropriately titled film should be a good opportunity to see how things are done at least peripherally. I'm not certain that anyone is actually going to be able to assist because the larger studio films typically have budgets for most of their positions. It will also be interesting to see how long they actually stay, from a glance at the schedule it looks like much of it is probably not on location. If there are chances to work on this film, anyone interested should certainly take advantage of the chance to work it. There is no better way to learn it--just make sure you don't get bogged down with school work because of it...something i would know nothing about...
Mr. Barton
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