Daily Archive for October 21st, 2006

Hollywood sails to brink of falls

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From the Buffalo News:

While local and national news cameras have focused on Buffalo-area storm damage this week, a Hollywood film crew has its lenses trained on the brink of the Horseshoe Falls.

Walt Disney Studios is shooting falls-related scenes for use in “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” the third installment in the wildly successful series of swashbuckling films, scheduled for release in May.

Stars Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are nowhere in sight; instead, the thundering water of the falls is playing the lead role.

The studio is keeping mum on exactly how the footage of the world-famous waterfall will be used, but there is speculation that moviegoers will see Captain Jack Sparrow and his shipmates facing oblivion courtesy of the giant cataract. As was the case with “Bruce Almighty,” where studio-shot Jim Carrey scenes were superimposed on actual Horseshoe Falls footage, Disney will use shots of the treacherous waters as background for scenes filmed in Hollywood.

Disney brings Pirates to the falls

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From the Niagara Falls Review:

Like a pirate in the night, a film crew for the third “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie sneaked in and out of town this week.

Autograph hounds needn’t fret - stars Johnny Depp, Kiera Knightley and Orlando Bloom weren’t among them. Instead, Walt Disney Studios shot footage of the Horseshoe Falls using helicopters and a high-tech crane for scenes in which the actors will be superimposed upon later.

Both sides of the border were utilized.

Filming started Monday at Terrapin Point in Niagara Falls, N.Y., eventually moving to Table Rock on the Canadian side Wednesday.

Niagara Parks Commission public relations manager Sarah Wood said the crew used the same complex Strada crane that was used to film the IMAX movie “Niagara: Miracles, Myths and Magic” in the mid 1980s, which is still screened at the Niagara Falls IMAX Theatre.