It looks like RPattz might be headed our way!
Rumors are rampant that Robert Pattinson may be filming parts of Water for Elephants in Ithaca, NY this summer. The film’s plot, which centers on a Cornell University veterinary student who drops out and joins the circus after his parents are killed, makes Ithaca an obvious choice among potential filming locations.
It is being reported that the production may be descending on Cornell’s campus in Ithaca this June though the reports have not been verified. Cornell University press officer Blaine Friedlander told the Ithaca Journal that he was unable to confirm whether the school would be used as a film location.
As an upstate New Yorker myself, I’ll be paying close attention to this story but I’m not to get too excited by the prospect of RPattz filming here until the rumors are confirmed. Stay tuned!
The Food Network is filming an episode of “Unwrapped” in Canajoharie on Wednesday, Jan. 27. The show will feature Space Food Sticks which are made at Richardson Foods, Inc. Space Food Sticks were first developed by the Pillsbury Company in the 1960s to be similar to those used by NASA.
A Rome native made it through the first round of auditions on the Season 9 premiere of American Idol.
On the show, Benjamin Bright, 25, sang the Beatles song “All My Loving” for the judges at the Boston try out, and made it through to Hollywood.
Bright is a former Rome Free Academy student who went on to graduate from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. He currently teaches music and chorus at Cumberland Head Elementary School in the Beekmantown Central School District near Plattsburgh.
Guy Fieri did a segment on Utica Greens today on Guy’s Big Bite. He showed how to make the local favorite and nicknamed escarole, which is used in the dish, as “turning greens” for the Turning Stone Casino.
This morning The Today Show featured several live reports from Fulton, NY because of the excessive amounts of snow they’ve received. According to the report, it has snowed for 9 days straight in Fulton with no relief in sight. Hopefully they will upload some video of the reports on their website sometime today.
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More information about the Paul Dano movie, For Ellen, became available last week thanks to the Watertown Daily Times. Filmmakers were in Massena, NY last month scouting locations and talking to locals about potential roles in the film.
The movie is about rock star returning to a small town to meet the 6-year-old child he fathered before attaining fame. Dano will play rocker Joby Taylor, Olivia Thirlby will play his girlfriend.
Cornwall, Ontario, native Jen E. Gatien is one of the producers and thought of the north country as a filming location after reading the script. “Having grown up here, I know what the winters are like,” Ms. Gatien said. “Very few films have captured that. There’s a lot of beauty here. I’m really excited about coming back to where I am from to make a film.”
The movie should begin filming at the end of January, beginning of February.
