Daily Archive for March 18th, 2008

Screencaps from “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry”

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Graham
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First off, I need to tell you I’ve never seen this movie, so my summary depends on other sources…

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry is a movie from Universal Pictures about two friends (Adam Sandler and Kevin James) who come to Canada to get “married” so that they can get domestic partner benefits.

Niagara Falls is shown about 30 minutes into the movie. They are sitting in a taxi as they drive to the wedding chapel. As they drive through the city you see a lot of recognizable locations. Chris (my friend who occasionally posts here) says he remembers being on Clifton Hill the day that the film crew was driving around the city. Neither Adam Sandler or Kevin James were here, as the film crew was just filming some stock footage to be used later.

At the very end of the movie, you see a night scene of Niagara Falls, and some computer-generated effects fireworks go off.

Here are some screen captures from the movie. Note that the pictures have been cropped and adjusted, so things may look slightly different in the movie.

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Nice shot of the Falls

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This is the Niagara Parkway and a bus loading/unloading area just beside Table Rock Place

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It’s kind of hard to see, but they are on Centre Street here. In the background you can see the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! sign as well as the oval Kelsey’s sign

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Just behind Adam Sandler is a bus (looks like from the Marriott). Just above the bus is the top of the Great Canadian Midway sign (the maple leaf part that has the word “Great” on it)

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You can see the Falls Avenue sign here at the bottom of Clifton Hill

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Here you can actually see the street sign at the bottom of Clifton Hill

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A couple of night shots of Niagara Falls and some CG fireworks

Expect to see bears on Clifton Hill

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Graham
on March 18, 2008
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From the Niagara Falls Review:

A new attraction is coming to Niagara Falls that children from the local area and beyond will be beary excited about. Build-a-Bear Workshop, the St. Louis-based company that gives little ones - and not-so-little-ones - the chance to pick and create the fuzzy friend of the dreams, is set to open at Victoria Avenue and Clifton Hill March 28.

“We’re beary thrilled,” Paul Bundonis, Build-a-Bear’s chief workshop bear, said from his office in Missouri, using Build-a-Bear speak that includes “beary,” “paws-itively,” cele-bear-ation and “op-bear-tunities.”

The new Niagara Falls store will be one of 20 the company plans to open in 2008 - and one of two opening in Canada this month.

Off-site hotel parking presented as green solution

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From the Niagara Falls Review:

More off-site parking will mean less of an impact on the Niagara escarpment, say developers of a five-star hotel that will be built into the moraine near Robinson Street.

City council gave Canadian Niagara Hotels permission to provide 71.5 per cent of the parking for its planned Westin hotel in a lot between Stanley and Allendale avenues instead of in a lot immediately attached to the hotel. It means 235 spaces will be three blocks from the hotel while 94 will be in an underground lot on the premises.

The company, which also owns the Brock Plaza and Sheraton-on-the-Falls hotels, plans to build the $130-million Westin Fallsview at the east end of Robinson Street at the top of the moraine, between the Skylon Tower and Jolley Cut path.