It was a Tuesday lunchtime in Druid Heights, a struggling central Baltimore neighbourhood, all boarded-up houses and abandoned backlots. |
Here's a relatively big budget put to good use, with some atmospheric location shooting instead of the standard backlots and backdrops. |
His 1941 book What Makes Sammy Run?, about a hustler who schmoozes and backstabs his way to the top, was considered by many to be the classic insider's guide to the studio system and made him a pariah on the backlots. |
The studios have acres of backlots where huge sets have been built, from castles to whole villages including Godric's Hollow from the Harry Potter film series. |
Instead, she winds up in one of those squeaky clean, multicultural turn-of-the-century New York neighborhoods that only existed, so far as we know, on studio backlots. |
The studios also have two large backlots, which have recently been used to create two castle compounds for the film 47 Ronin. |