Feb 23 2009
Whether or not you agree with giving movie production companies a tax incentive to film in Michigan, you can't argue with the result. Since the Film Incentive Package passed in 2008, celebrity sightings are plentiful. In fact, several locations within the Metro Detroit area are recognizable in movies with budgets both big and small. Here are just a few of the movies filmed or filming in Detroit.
- 20% Fiction (2009) – Comedy/Drama starring Martin Landau with locations in Troy.
- Armored (2009) -– An action/drama starring Eric Bana.
- Be Funny – Documentary about comedians starring Dave Coulier and Tim Allen (among many others) with film locations in Detroit
- Betty Anne Waters (2009) – Biography starring Hilary Swank.
- Butterfly Effect: Revelation (2009) – Sci-Fi Fantasy filmed in Detroit and Vancouver.
- Clock Tower (2009) – A horror flick starring Brittany Snow
- Demoted (2009) – Comedy starring Sean Astin filmed all over the Metro Detroit area, including Dearborn, Detroit, Inkster, Michigan, Milford, Novi, Plymouth (Bennigan’s Restaurant) and the Southfield Public Library.
- (2008) – Clint Eastwood movie filmed in Grosse Pointe Shores, Royal Oak and Warren.
- High School (2010) – Comedy starring Colin Hanks and Adrien Brody shot in Howell and Detroit.
- The Irishman: The Rise and Fall of Danny Greene (2009) – A biography starring Paul Sorvino and Tara Reid
- The Job (2009) – Comedy Satire starring Ron Perlman and Joe Pantoliano filmed in Detroit.
- Killshot (2008) – Action Thriller starring Diane Lane and Mickey Rourke with film locations in Detroit.
- Little Red Devil (2008) – Horror film starring Daniel Baldwin shot in Detroit, Livonia and Troy.
- Miss January (2009) – Comedy starring Kim Cattrall and Brian Dennehy filmed in Detroit, Livonia, Romulus and Westland.
- Street Boss (2009) – Movie about a Detroit mobster starring Nicholas Turturro and filmed in the prison in Jackson and Saginaw.
- The Tower (2008) – Horror movie filmed mainly in Detroit and Pontiac.
- Tug (2009) – A movie starring Haley Duff filmed in Grand Rapids and Holland.
- Up in the Air (2009) – Comedy/drama starring George Clooney with film locations in Detroit and at Detroit Metro Airport.
- Youth in Revolt (2009) – Movie starring Michael Cera, Ray Liotta, Steve Buscemi and Justin Long filmed in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Ferndale, Frankfort, Hazel Park, Lake Leelanau and Royal Oak.
- Whip It (2009) – Drew Barrymore movie filmed in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Ferndale, Nov, Royal Oak, Saline, Troy and Ypsilanti.
