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stillers4me
05-27-2011, 07:27 AM
A lifetime fascination with comic books and the Steelers -- and now the city of Pittsburgh itself -- combined to help bring the big-budget movie "Dark Knight Rises" to film here starting this summer.

Thomas Tull, president and CEO of Legendary Pictures, became a partner in the Steelers ownership group two years ago when the Rooneys restructured the franchise by adding a dozen new shareholders. He's been a fixture at many of their games, flying back and forth from Los Angeles, and now he has another major project scheduled in Pittsburgh, a $250 million movie............

Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11147/1149433-66.stm

steeldevil
05-27-2011, 11:03 AM
Wow thats really cool!!

I am a big fan of all the Batman movies, especially "The Dark Knight".

I'm not sure why they are filming the new one in 5 different cities, because I'm pretty sure "The Dark Knight" was filmed entirely in Chicago. I guess they have specific structures in these cities that they want to use.

Really cool.