{"id":69278,"date":"2005-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/alton-jones-campus-temporarily-becomes-hollywood-east\/"},"modified":"2005-11-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T00:00:00","slug":"alton-jones-campus-temporarily-becomes-hollywood-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/11\/alton-jones-campus-temporarily-becomes-hollywood-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Alton Jones campus temporarily becomes Hollywood east"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. –November 21, 2005 –For four days this month, the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s W. Alton Jones Campus became the backdrop for a new $15.5 million action movie called Hard Luck. The movie stars Cybill Shepherd and Wesley Snipes and is directed by Mario Van Peebles (at right)<\/i>.<\/p>\n


\nCameras, trucks, cable, tents and a hundred-plus people created a circus-like atmosphere of excitement.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cCan Cybill\u2019s hair be wrapped in toilet paper?\u201d yells her assistant. The actress wants to rest, but doesn\u2019t want to spoil her hairdo. The answer was yes.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cCan we have quiet on the set?\u201d yells another as the action warms up. A young man with an earphone paces. \u201cPicture up!\u201d he shouts. A second later he barks: \u201cRolling sound! Rolling!\u201d<\/p>\n

As the cameras film a street scene with Snipes (at left)<\/i> and actress Jackie Quinones, nearby Woodvale Farm goats and horses seem unaware that the glitter of stardust has settled in their pasture. <\/p>\n


\nHard Luck interweaves the story of three different couples. \u201cIt\u2019s quirky, dark and funny,\u201d says Van Peebles who writes, acts, and produces as well as directs. For instance, he says, Cybill plays a serial killer. He smiles at the thought. \u201cThe most least likely person to be one.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe movie, which is being filmed entirely in Rhode Island, will wrap up around Christmas and should be out in the theaters by spring. <\/p>\n


\nVan Peebles said the recent tax credit for filmmakers attracted the production to the state. Sitting down under one of the big tops for a catered lunch which offered the crew anything from artichokes to ziti, Van Peebles and producer Brad Wyman listed reasons they found filming in Rhode Island to be advantageous: The state\u2019s diversity of peoples and cultures, its diversity of landscape and food, its beautiful architecture, and its close proximity to New York. \u201cAnd the friendliness of the people,\u201d says Van Peebles.<\/p>\n

They liked filming at Alton Jones. The location was perfect, offering them a farm, a lake, and a swamp. And they didn\u2019t have to deal with parking problems or traffic.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt was easy for us to accommodate the production,\u201d said Tom Mitchell, director of the Alton Jones campus. \u201cWe\u2019re used to customizing all different kinds of requests, but this was our first movie. It was fun to see how they do it. There was a lot of high energy.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nMitchell notes that Steven Feinberg, head of the state\u2019s Film & Television Office, suggested the West Greenwich site to the moviemakers. \u201cHe was a camper at Alton Jones when he was a student,\u201d says Mitchell, noting that Feinberg told him that he has the 2,300-acre campus in mind for other movies. <\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau Photos by Nora Lewis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. –November 21, 2005 –For four days this month, the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s W. Alton Jones Campus became the backdrop for a new $15.5 million action movie called Hard Luck. The movie stars Cybill Shepherd and Wesley Snipes and is directed by Mario Van Peebles (at right). Cameras, trucks, cable, tents and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}