…On N. 6 Street in Williamsburg Today

Ah, another shoot going on in the Burg. This one is happening today on N. 6 Street at Kent Avenue.

Shooting in the Burg: Ghost Town

First the premise of Ghost Town: A “misanthrophic dentist” having a colonoscopy dies for seven minutes. According to IMDB, when he comes back to life, “he can see the dead and is bothered by the ghost of a businessman who wants the dentist to break up the impending marriage of the ghost’s wife.” Among the stars are Tea Leoni and Greg Kinnear. It’s shooting on Tuesday (11/6) in Williamsburg and the area that will be impacted runs from Metropolitan Avenue to N. 4th Street and Kent Avenue to Berry. There’s an accompanying sign about how if your car is “relocated” from any of these streets you can call to find out where it now lives, etc. Dream Works, which is producing the film, appreciates your understanding both about having your car relocated and about a plot involving a semi-deadly colonoscopy that leads to seeing ghosts.

Park Slope Getting Some Law & Order

Those of you who were thinking that the nice thing about being in Brooklyn during the last week of August instead of at the beach is that you can park your car any place you freakin’ want, think again. The fun people at Law & Order have something in store for you tomorrow (8/30) on a three-block stretch of Prospect Park West between Sixth and Ninth Streets. The upside is that you get to watch a film shoot, if you’re not too busy trying to figure out where your car’s been towed in the interest of, you know, law and order.

Want to be an Extra in Dimished Capacity?

Maybe you saw the film shoot in Park Slope last week for Diminished Capacity or read our item about it. Well, we got an email that the production is looking for extras for filming they’re doing between June 5 and June 8. We figured we pass on the information. We don’t know where they’re shooting next week. If you’re interested in your possible five or so seconds of fame in the background of some shots, email dimcapcasting@gmail.com.

Diminshed Capacity Shoot in Park Slope

As noted, Diminished Capacity was shooting at Eighth Avenue and Eighth Street in Park Slope yesterday. Here are a couple of shots, though we didn’t catch the thick of the action or any make any celeb sightings. No Matthew Broderick. No Virginia Madsen. But it did look like a nice catering setup in the basement of St. Saviour’s Church.

Exceptionally Diminished Capacity in Park Slope

We posted about the movie shoot in Park Slope for Diminished Capacity on Tuesday and several commenters noted that movie shooting season can mean hassles for residents impacted by the film shoot. Signs for the movie shoot are up on Eighth Avenue, Eight Street and Seventh Street. Last night we noticed that they’d spread to Sixth Street, which is why we bring this up again. City regulations require that signs be posted at least 48 hours in advance and we know for a fact that the Sixth Street signage was posted less than 24 hours ahead of time. (You can check out the filming guidelines here.) The signs went up on Wednesday long after other signs had been posted, so we’re guessing that a number of people are coming out this morning to discover their cars, which they thought were safely parked, have been relocated. Just thought we’d share. Meantime, we’ll catch some shots of the shoot itself. Or the towing of the cars. Or the residents with diminished anger management capacity.

For a take on how this makes residents nuts in other neighborhoods, check out this Open Letter to Dennis Leary posted by 11222. It says, in part, “Please stop taking all our parking spaces and disrupting life for needless blocks on end. You do not put up the parking signs with the mandated notice, and you make the boyfriend call the Mayor’s office for TV and film to complain at least twice a month. You would sing ‘The Asshole Song’ to yourself if you lived here and had to deal with ‘Rescue Me’ hogging Greenpoint constantly.”