Have Yourself A Homemade Movie Weekend!

I have become fascinated with the amount of movies that are filming in and around the Detroit area the last couple of years. Due to a tax-credit plan created by Governor Jennifer Granholm, Michigan offers the most generous film incentives to the industry. In the two years since the film incentives has been available, 89 movies and television shows have been filmed in Michigan. It excites me to see places I'm familiar with (in Detroit) showing up in movies. I was very disappointed when I grew older and realized that none of the buildings in RoboCop existed in the city of Detroit. I researched it a bit more and found out that most of the movie was filmed in Dallas, Texas. Apparently Dallas was more futuristic looking than Detroit and was more of what they were looking for. Check out some of the movies I have listed below if you're looking for something more ... homemade.


MOVIES FILMED IN OR NEAR DETROIT, MICHIGAN

2009
Hung (Television Show)
Youth In Revolt
Whip It
The Job
Up In The Air (Parts were filmed outside of Michigan)
Prayers For Bobby
The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations

2008
Stick It In Detroit
The Tower
Grand Torino
Killshot (Parts were filmed outside of Michigan)

2002
8 Mile (Parts were filmed outside of Michigan)


IN PROGRESS OR COMING THIS YEAR

SCREAM 4 2011
RED DAWN 2010
LOCKED IN A ROOM 2010
CONVICTION 2010

These are just a few of the movies and there are plenty others having pieces of detroit in them like: RoboCop (Most of it was filmed in Dallas), Grosse Point Blank, Transformers and The Island, Assault on Precinct 13...You can even have the chance to be a move extra by visiting the MichiganActing.com web site!