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Tax breaks for filming and it's not SF specific or even cities. Other planets too, like Stargate SG-1 being filmed around Squamish 1 hour away.
Having a street shut down for filming in New York or San Francisco is probably beyond the budget of most directors.
And Toronto is New York City.
Tax breaks for filming and it's not SF specific or even cities. Other planets too, like Stargate SG-1 being filmed around Squamish 1 hour away.
I always got a chuckle when Stargate went meta. They had a planet called Kelowna (a real BC city) and a country called Langara (I was for a time a faculty member at Langara College). At one point, they visit an Oregon town called Steveston, with the location being the Steveston district of Richmond BC. Of course, nothing can beat the thrill of waking up every morning and looking out my bedroom building at the office…
It was very fun to attend UBC then immediately start recognizing bits of the campus in many TV shows - Man in High Castle, Stargate, Battlestar, and many others. They have long since fixed it but there used to be an absolutely awful/hilarious set of street view captures for UBC that were taken by accident during filming for Man in the High Castle…the entire main mall had Nazi flags up. https://ubyssey.ca/humour/ubc-n…
Same for SFU students too especially the mountain top Burnaby campus.
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What was the scam exactly? I thought curb numbers were a thing people actually had from the movies!
They're definitely a thing. The scam is people showing up and painting them without approval, demanding payment afterwards.