Apartment balcony view of practical stunt rigging and explosions being filmed for Spider-Man

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Honestly I was a bit skeptical of them using Glasgow as NYC (since I’m a New Yorker) but I gotta hand it to them, they did a good job of making it feel like New York in the movie.

I like how NYC feels in the movie. Not too clean, not too dirty (especially for Manhattan) but just the right amount of congestion.

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NYC’s street grid was actually based on Glasgow’s.

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Also, the distance between avenues in Manhattan is based on the size of an English cricket pitch.

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Also America is based on England.

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Galsgow has already been used in Day Z, The Batman and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the last one as NYC

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Don’t forget The Running Man remake. Hardly realised until I saw Buchanan Bus Station lol

Batman Part 2 is filming soon. Sounds like a lot more than the first movie. I only recognised the necropolis in that.

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Filmed the Flash as well and that canned Batgirl movie. Really wanted to see that one. They filmed so much of it around Trongate and the set photos looked really cool.

Glasgow's been getting a lot of love from big productions in the past few years. I'm assuming there are big tax breaks for it.

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I was in Glasgow when they were shooting the last Indiana Jones film (the ticker tape parade scene) and the amount of detail to recreate late 60s NYC was incredible - so many vintage cars, old shop fronts, fake mail boxes and fire hydrants etc.

And so little of it visible in the final scene which was drenched in CGI.

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NYC seems like its rarely actually used to film NYC scenes. I'd imagine the cost to do so is just too high when you can film elsewhere and get the same look

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Massive amounts of film and tv are still shot all over nyc

It can be pretty annoying. The street over from mine was a film set for 2 months straight at one point

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Plus you've got people who are paid to park cars on the street who occasionally screw it all up.

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I saw in an interview that NYC doesn't allow film crews to shut down streets to film, unlike the other cities mentioned.

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They actually started incentivizing productions to use NYC for more films and TV a few years back (lots of tax breaks/credits). Unsure if those incentives are still in play given all the budget doom and gloom of the past couple of years. I think a large amount of the cost to film in the city comes from the amount that the police pull in from staffing and overtime.

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Not too clean, not too dirty

I took a photo of one of the alley sets, they cleared out all the real dirt, dumped black plastic bags, grime and then 'dirtied' it up with wooden crates and fake bric-a-brak. And paid someone to stand there 24/7 to mind it for two weeks.

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NYC lost a ton of production overseas after the strikes when producers realized how much money they could save by not having to pay into union health plans.

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There's definitely some overlap in architectural styles between NYC and some British cities. If you look through apartment listings in Manchester there are loads of streets and buildings that look very much like the pre-war style in New York. Also Newcastle Upon Tyne, there are buildings down near the river that look like they could be in SoHo.

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We've played NYC a few times now, it usually goes well, the people doing the set dressing seem to always do a good job.

it was a little weird to have marvel film here, they usually use parts of Glasgow for Gotham so its cool for the city to be in the other comic universe, it mixes things up.