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 Man – The 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.
What’s Wrong with Virginia – starring Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris,
Emma Roberts, Amy Madigan and Harrison Gilbertson
Demoted – starring Sean Astin and David Cross
Playback – www.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
Gulliver’s Travels
Hostel: Part III
House of the Rising Sun
Scream 4
Touchback
2009
The Domino Effect
The Genesis Code
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