With our elaborate plantation homes, down home Southern style restaurants and Capital City museums and historical landmarks, Baton Rouge and its rich Louisiana culture attracts production companies and location scouts from around the country looking for that perfect set to bring their movie or television show to life. Baton Rouge is home to Raleigh Studios at Celtic Media Centre, the state's first purpose-built soundstages.
A&E’s popular crime drama show will begin shooting in Baton Rouge in October and continue filming through early 2012. “Breakout Kings” is the first television show to film an entire season in Louisiana’s capital city. The series will be filmed throughout the city and in surrounding areas. Residents can expect stunts, special effects, and chase sequences!
A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at the same bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.
Starring: Ashley Judd, Patrick Dempsey and Jeffrey Tambor
51 (2011)
51 chronicles what happens after political pressure from the American public forces the Air Force to provide a few well-known reporters with limited access to the most secretive base on the planet: Area 51. When one of the base's hidden 'long term visitors' exploits this unprecedented visit as a chance to liberate himself and his fellow alien captives, Area 51 turns from a secure government base to a horrifying destination of terror.
Blood Out (2011)
When big city detectives refuse to further investigate his kid brother's gang related murder, small town Sheriff Michael Spencer drops the badge and goes undercover to find his brother's killer and avenge his death.
Starring: Val Kilmer, AnnaLynne McCord and Vinnie Jones
I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
Writer Jennifer Hills takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. Her small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson. They break into her cabin to scare her. However, what starts out as terrifying acts of humiliation and intimidation, quickly and uncontrollably escalates into a night of physical abuse and torturous assault. Against all odds, Jennifer Hills survived her ordeal. Now, with hell bent vengeance, Jennifer's sole purpose is to turn the tables on these animals and to inflict upon them every horrifying and torturous moment they carried out on her... only much, much worse.
Starring: Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson and Andrew Howard
The Ledge (2011)
A young man stands on the ledge of a building and seems determined to take his own life. A detective is sent to talk the "jumper" out of it - but he discovers that the jumper's behavior is forced. In a twist of fate, We soon learn that the detective has just suffered his own life-shattering experience, and in the end, it's jumper who has to convince the cop that his own life is worth living.
Starring: Liv Tyler, Terrence Howard and Patrick Wilson
The Chameleon (2010)
A son, a brother, a lover, a friend - can we ever know who people say they are?
Staring: Marc-André Grondin, Famke Janssen and Ellen Barkin
Inventing Adam (2010)
This romantic comedy written and directed by Baton Rouge native Richie Adams is set in Baton Rouge. A young patent lawyer returns to his hometown to celebrate the birthday of a childhood friend just weeks before his San Francisco wedding.
Starring: Josh Myers, Claire Coffee, Alyshia Ochse and Ike Barinholtz.
A reporter stumbles upon the journal of a murderer replete with plans to butcher specific people and investigates on his own, finding every trail leads to a 9-year old orphan living in a group home.
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Neal McDonough and Austin Abrams.
Video Girl (2010)
Starring Megan Good and Claudia Jordan. Scheduled for 2010 release.
A marine platoon faces an alien invasion in Los Angeles in this Sony/Columbia pictures blockbuster. Scheduled for release in 2011.
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez and Bridget Moynahan.
True Blood (2009)
This series follows Sookie Stackhouse, a barmaid living in Louisiana who can read people's minds. The show describes how her life is turned upside down when the Vampire Bill, walks into her place of employment two years after vampires 'came out of the coffin' on national television.
Starring: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Tramell, Ryan Kwanten
The Open Road (2009)
Minor leaguer Carlton Garrett takes an unexpected road trip to track down his estranged father, legendary baseball player Kyle Garrett when Carlton's mother becomes sick.
Starring: Justin Timberlake, Jeff Bridger, and Mary Steenburgen, Allen O Battle III, Tamera Bennett, LaVita Brooks. Paxton Brown, J. Omar Castro, Loyd Catlett Watch Official Movie Trailer
Loss of the Teardrop Diamond (2009)
After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation. She tries to pass him off as an upper-class suitor to appease the spinster aunt who controls her family's fortune, but when she loses a diamond, it places their tenuous relationship in further jeopardy. Burstyn is attached to play Fisher's mother.
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Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, David Strathairn, Ann-Margret, Ellen Burstyn Watch Official Movie Trailer
The Vampires Assistant: Cirque Du Freak (2009)
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant tells the story of a small-town teen who inadvertently shatters a 200-year-old truce between warring factions of vampires. Trouble finds best friends when they make the acquaintance of a vampire named Larten Crepsley while attending a traveling freak show at a local theater. Transformed into a bloodsucker by Crepsley, one of the friends joins the Cirque du Freak and quickly ingratiates himself with the unusual cast of characters who populate it. With tensions between the two sects intensifying, the newcomer must figure out a means of keeping the coming war from destroying his last vestige of humanity.
Starring: John C. Reilly, Josh Hutcherson, Chris Massoglia, Jessica Carlson Watch Official Movie Trailer
I love you Phillip Morris (2009)
The story begins with Russell, on his deathbed recalling the events of his life that led him there. He begins with his life in Texas as a happily married police officer who plays the organ at church, prays every night with his wife and spends his off hours searching for the biological mother who gave him up as a child. Steven leaves his life and family behind to go out into the world and be his true, flamboyantly gay self. He moves to Miami, finds a boyfriend and begins living the high life. He realizes quickly though, that a life of luxury is expensive, leading this resourceful former cop to turn to a life as a conman. But when his con work finally catches up with him, Steven is sent to prison where he meets, and almost instantly falls in love with Phillip Morris. From there the story becomes a Don Quixote-esque story of a forlorn lover who cannot bear to be separated from his soul-mate. He will go to any lengths to be with Phillip.
Starring: Jim Carey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro Watch Official Movie Trailer
Cadillac Records (2008)
In this tale of violence, race, and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, Cadillac Records follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James
Starring: Beyonce' Knowles, Mos Def, Jeffrey Wright, Columbus Short, Darnell Martin, Adriien Brody, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Gabrielle Union, Cedric the Entertainer Watch Official Movie Trailer
Jumper (2008)
A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Diane Lane Watch Official Movie Trailer
Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
Christmas, 1983; A New York postal clerk, a Buffalo Soldier in Italy in World War II, shoots a stranger. In his apartment, police find a valuable Italian marble head, missing since the war. Flashbacks tell the story of four Black soldiers who cross Tuscany's Serchio River, dodging German and friendly fire. Orders via radio tell them to capture a German soldier for questioning about a counteroffensive. In the village, a beautiful woman, partisans that include a traitor and a local legend, the boy, and the story of a recent massacre connect to the postal worker's anguish forty years later. And the miracle?
Starring: Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, Pierfrancesco Favino Valentina Cervi Watch Official Movie Trailer
The Reaping (2007)
Thousands of years ago there was a series of bizarre occurrences that many believed to have been the Ten Biblical Plagues. No one thought they could happen again. Until now.
Starring: Hillary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba, Stephen Rea
Standoff (2006)
There's no crisis situation they can't handle...unless it involves each other. Matt Flannery (Ron Livingston) and Emily Lehman (Rosemarie DeWitt) are the top-ranked negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit (CNU). They're trained to talk their way through volatile situations. They're experts at knowing what makes other people tick. They're also sleeping together ... a secret that they agreed to keep to themselves, until Matt revealed it to the entire world during a tense hostage standoff. While Matt and Emily should be split up for being romantically involved, they're too valuable as a team. Together, they're among the best in their field.
Starring: Ron Livingston, Rosemarie Dewitt, Gina Torres, Michael Cudlitz, Raquel Alessi, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Christ Krauser Watch Official Movie Trailer
All the King's Men (2006)
In the 50's, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy; the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden; the lobbyist Tiny Duffy; and his mistress Sadie Burke, to face the opposition of the upper classes.
Starring: Sean Penn, Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, Kate Winslet
Cousins Bo and Luke Duke, with a little help from their cousin Daisy and Uncle Jesse, egg on the authorities of Hazzard County, Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane.
Starring: Jessica Simpson, Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott
Bed and Breakfast (1992)
A mysterious stranger has a surprising effect on three generations of women in this romantic comedy-drama. One day, the three women discover a gentleman who calls himself Adam has washed up on the shore. Adam is a con artist who was literally thrown off the yacht of someone he was trying to cheat, and now he fakes amnesia while he tries to get back on his feet and hide from his most recent victims. Starring: Colleen Dewurst, Talia Shire, Nina Siemaszko, Roger Moore Watch Official Movie Trailer
The Wrong Side of Town Part 1 (2010)
Releases in 2010
Ex-Navy Seal Bobby Kalinowski lives a quiet, peaceful life as a landscape architect in an LA suburb with his wife Dawn and 16 year old daughter Brianna. Tonight they are invited out. Little did they know that this would be the start of a life or death ordeal for the group. While at the club, Dawn is accosted by one of the club owners, Ethan Bordas. When Bobby intervenes and accidentally kills Ethan defending his wife, his enraged older brother, Seth, puts a one hundred thousand dollar bounty on his head. Now Bobby must escape LA while being pursued by every criminal, wise guy and thug in the city. Bobby decides to separate from his wife and neighbors and revert to his Navy Seal training to survive. To complicate matters, Seth has a corrupt police sergeant preventing Bobby from getting any help from the law!
Starring: Stormy Daniels, Dave Batista, Ja Rule, Ava Santana, Randal Reeder, Scott L. Schwartz, Rob Van Dam, Louis Herthum, Lara Grice
Normal Types (2010)
Releases in 2010
Starring: Edrick Browne, Valerie Rodriguez, Lawrence Turner, Jason Trost, Jessica Gutierrez, Hamilton Ridenour, Shira Mills, Whitney Vann
Jonah Hex (2010)
Releases in 2010
In the Wild West, a scarred bounty hunter tracks a voodoo practitioner bent on liberating the South by raising an army of the undead.
Starring: Megan Fox, Josh Brolin, Will Arnett, John Malkovich, Michael Fassbender, Michael Shannon, David Patrick Kelly
Mothman (2010)
Releases in 2010
Starring: Jewel Staite, Kennon Kepper, Susie Abromeit, Douglas M. griffin, Matty Ferraro, Connor Fox, T.W. Lesher, Jessica Erin Sylvia, Lawrence Turner
The Baton Rouge Film Commission serves as a liaison between production companies, city and state services. The Baton Rouge Film Commission works to make arrangements with the appropriate law enforcement agencies for road closures, crowd control, public buildings, supervision of pyrotechnic effects and any other city, parish or state service.
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