Movies Filmed in Michigan
For additional Michigan Film Information check out the following websites:
Michigan Film Office
West Michigan Film Office
West Michigan Film Video Alliance
Upcoming Releases:
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
Michigan
Featured on TV
Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 9 pm on ABC: "A Smile as Big as the Moon"
The story of two Grand Rapids area
special education teachers at Forest Hills
in 1898, who overcame many obstacles
to send a group of 19 students -- whose
learning challenges ranged from
Tourette's syndrome to autism to
dyslexia -- to Space Camp in
Huntsville, Alambama.
Read more here
Saturdays at 8:30 pm: Cash and Cari
HGTV
Based in Detroit.
www.hgtv.com
Hardcore Pawn
TruTV
Filmed in Detroit.
www.trutv.com
"The Chew"
ABC afternoon talk show
Featuring Mario Batali. Insiders say there
will be regular "shout outs to the Great
Lakes State!
http://abc.go.com/shows/the-chew
It’s official – Jeff Daniels will star in
a new HBO series
Read more here
Lifetime and ABC: "A Dog for Christmas"
Being filmed primarily in Rockford, MI.
Starring Dean Cain
Read more here
Northern Lights
UNBELIEVABLE time-lapse video of the Northern Lights, taken in Allegan County
on Monday, October 24th, 2011.
AMAZING!