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Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Tuned In: Showtime’s ‘Rust’ will film in Pittsburgh region
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Last week in between press conferences for Showtime series, Showtime CEO/CBS chief creative officer David Nevins said the intent was to film the premium cable network’s Western Pennsylvania-set “Rust” in Pittsburgh but a deal wasn’t yet done.
I did not know prior to coming to CMU that Pittsburgh is a rising destination for films and TV shows. I think it is really cool that the city of Pittsburgh has a film office and offers a 25% tax incentive to film companies that shoot in the city of Pittsburgh. The state of Georgia has been doing this for awhile and now Atlanta has become a second LA but on the east coast. It is very exciting to see camera crews in the streets of Pittsburgh with giant cranes among the stores. I want to go into film eventually and seeing crews around Pittsburgh just solidifies that. I am intrigued to see how "Rust" goes in production and how it is received by audiences. Many TV shows that have shot in Pittsburgh according to this article, has been cancelled or put on hold indefinitely so it will be interesting to see if "Rust" comes back after its first season.
I love that there is constantly a big film being made in Pittsburgh!! It makes me so happy to be here and be able to see all the cool things being filmed on occasion. Plus we are all ably to apply to be extras almost constantly, so there is always opportunities there. I am interested to see the way that having Pittsburgh in a lot of mobiles will affect my enjoyment of the films. Maybe I will be able to watch movies and recognize streets I've been on, which is so interesting and something I was never able to do back where I lived, although I lived just outside of LA so I probably recognized a few things. It makes being in Pittsburgh such a fun and enriching experience, rather than being somewhere more outside of the film, television, and theatre scene. I can not wait to see this show on Showtime sometime in the near future!
Shooting film and television in Pittsburgh seems to be becoming fairly common. It seems that I'm always hearing about a star coming or a region being utilized. I think it's wonderful that it is being chosen, especially for stories that take place in the region. One of my favorite Pittsburgh scenes is in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" when they emerge from the Fort Pitt tunnel while standing in the bed of a truck. The article mentions that more and more individuals can make a living from this growing industry. This disrupts the well-accepted theory that you need to live in Los Angeles to work in film. Knowing that the arts can sustain more people, and in a city that is not considered a hub for it, is honestly comforting. I was personally pleaseantly surprised with the art and culture scene when I first got to Pittsburgh. Coming from a suburban area in Florida that does not have many art options, I was excited to see all these musuems and theatres and public events.
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I did not know prior to coming to CMU that Pittsburgh is a rising destination for films and TV shows. I think it is really cool that the city of Pittsburgh has a film office and offers a 25% tax incentive to film companies that shoot in the city of Pittsburgh. The state of Georgia has been doing this for awhile and now Atlanta has become a second LA but on the east coast. It is very exciting to see camera crews in the streets of Pittsburgh with giant cranes among the stores. I want to go into film eventually and seeing crews around Pittsburgh just solidifies that. I am intrigued to see how "Rust" goes in production and how it is received by audiences. Many TV shows that have shot in Pittsburgh according to this article, has been cancelled or put on hold indefinitely so it will be interesting to see if "Rust" comes back after its first season.
I love that there is constantly a big film being made in Pittsburgh!! It makes me so happy to be here and be able to see all the cool things being filmed on occasion. Plus we are all ably to apply to be extras almost constantly, so there is always opportunities there. I am interested to see the way that having Pittsburgh in a lot of mobiles will affect my enjoyment of the films. Maybe I will be able to watch movies and recognize streets I've been on, which is so interesting and something I was never able to do back where I lived, although I lived just outside of LA so I probably recognized a few things. It makes being in Pittsburgh such a fun and enriching experience, rather than being somewhere more outside of the film, television, and theatre scene. I can not wait to see this show on Showtime sometime in the near future!
Shooting film and television in Pittsburgh seems to be becoming fairly common. It seems that I'm always hearing about a star coming or a region being utilized. I think it's wonderful that it is being chosen, especially for stories that take place in the region. One of my favorite Pittsburgh scenes is in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" when they emerge from the Fort Pitt tunnel while standing in the bed of a truck. The article mentions that more and more individuals can make a living from this growing industry. This disrupts the well-accepted theory that you need to live in Los Angeles to work in film. Knowing that the arts can sustain more people, and in a city that is not considered a hub for it, is honestly comforting. I was personally pleaseantly surprised with the art and culture scene when I first got to Pittsburgh. Coming from a suburban area in Florida that does not have many art options, I was excited to see all these musuems and theatres and public events.
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