Michigan Featured in Films

For additional information check out the following websites:

Michigan Film Office
West Michigan Film Office
West Michigan Film Video Alliance

 

UPCOMING RELEASES

The Giant Mechanical ManThe romantic comedy stars Jenna Fischer
from “The Office” as the zoo worker drifting through life who falls for a
charming silver-painted street performer played by Chris Messina.
Fischer plays a woman who gets fired from her job and moves in with
her sister, played by Malin Ackerman, and her sister…
(more)

Touch Back – starring Kurt Russell as the head coach, Brian Presley in
lead role, Melanie Lynskey as his wife, Mark Blucas as a friend and
teammate, Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Christine Lahti
  as the mother, Mark Ellis as opposition coach, Barry Sanders in a
cameo role as an Assistant Coach, Drew Powell, Sarah Wright,
Sianoa Smit-McPhee, and Kevin Covais. Red carpet premiere April
20th, 2012 in Grand Rapids
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What’s Wrong with Virginia – starring Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris,
Emma Roberts, Amy Madigan and Harrison Gilbertson

Demoted – starring Sean Astin and David Cross

Playbackwww.playbackthemovie.com

Whip It – starring Drew Barrymore, Ellen Page, Juliette Lewis and
Jimmy Fallon

 

2012

A Smile As Big As the Moon
www.spacecamp.com/smilemovie

 

2011

30 Minutes or Less – starring Jesse Eisenberg, Nick Swardson, and
Danny Mcbride. Filmed in Grand Rapids, Ludington, Walker, and
Wyoming.
www.30minutesorless.com

Green Lantern – Traverse City based IE Effects did work on the
movie starring Ryan Reynolds. (Click here to see the trailer.)
http://greenlanternmovie.warnerbros.com

House of the Rising Sun – starring Danny Trejo, and Amy Smart.
Filmed in Grand Rapids.
www.imdb.com/title/tt1788383/

Playback (Click here to see the trailer).

Transformers: Dark of the Moon – directed by Michael Bay. Filmed in
Detroit.

The Setup

 

2010

A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas

Caught in the Crossfire

Gulliver’s Travels

Hostel: Part III

House of the Rising Sun

Meet Monica Velour

Scream 4

Touchback

 

2009

The Domino Effect

The Genesis Code

Gran Torino

Piranha 3D

Red Dawn

You Don’t Know Jack

 

2008

American Virgin

Deadheads

The Day the Earth Stood Still

 

2007

Jumper – filmed in Ann Arbor

Semi Pro – starring Will Ferrel. Set in Flint


2006

Dream Girls – set in Motown and starring Eddie Murphy

Transformers – filmed at an abandoned train station in Detroit

 

2005

Four Brothers – starring Mark Wahlberg

Silent Scream

 

2004

Dead End Road

 

2003

The Invitation

Upside of Anger – starring Kevin Costner

 

2002

Bowling for Columbine – a Michael Moore documentary

 

2001

8 Mile – starring Eminem

American Pie 2

Road to Perdition – starring Tom Hanks and Paul Newman.
Filmed near Holland

Super Sucker

 

2000

’61

Escanaba in da Moonlight

 

1999

Detroit Rock City

 

1998

All of It

Out of Sight – starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez

 

1997

Grosse Pointe Blank – starring John Cusack

 

1996

The Killing Tide

 

1995

Flirting with Disaster – starring Ben Stiller

 

1994

Renaissance Man – starring Danny Devito and directed by
Penny Marshall

 

1993

True Romance

 

1992

Hoffa – biography starring Jack Nicholson

 

1991

Truth or Dare – Madonna documentary

Only the Lonely

 

1990

Die Hard II – starring Bruce Willis

 

1989

Presumed Innocent – Courtroom drama starring Harrison Ford

Roger and Me – a Michael Moore documentary filmed in Flint

 

1988

American Beauty

Blind Faith

 

1987

Action Jackson

Beverly Hills Cop II – Comedy starring Eddie Murphy

Midnight Run – Starring Robert Deniro

The Evil Dead II – Sequel by Sam Raimi that became a cult classic

 

1986

Rosary Murders

 

1985

The Carrier

 

1984

Beverly Hills Cop – Comedy starring Eddie Murphy

 

1983

Doctor Doctor

 

1982

The Evil Dead – A Sam Raimi cult classic

 

1981

Continental Divide – Comedy starring John Belushi

 

1979

Hardcore – Drama starting George C. Scott. Filmed in Grand Rapids

Somewhere in Time – Romance starring Jane Seymour and
Christopher Reeve. Filmed at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island

 

1978

Blue Collar

 

1960

Where the Boys Are

 

1959

Anatomy of a Murder – Courtroom drama staring James Stewart