October 2003 Archives
By Jean Horne, FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
"When Pittsburgh calls, I'm there," declared Rob Marshall, native son and director of the Oscar-winning film "Chicago," at Saturday night's throw-a-rock, hit-a-talent blowout bash at the Andy Warhol Museum. The call he took came from a band of Pittsburghers who have launched the Steeltown Entertainment Project to bring Hollywood back to Mister Rogers' neighborhood.
By Ron Weiskind, Post-Gazette Movie Editor
Yesterday's Steeltown Entertainment Summit at WQED-TV took the form of a TV talk show, complete with live band, featuring former Pittsburghers working in Hollywood who combined old-home week with an anecdotal primer on the business of television and movies.
The only big plans announced at the session came at the end from a member of the mostly invited audience of civic, political and business leaders.
With almost no time left for questions, the summiteers heard a potential answer to one of the roadblocks in their quest to create an entertainment production and education center here.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20031026hollywodae1p1.asp
Relocated locals want to turn region into an entertainment capital
By Ron Weiskind, Post-Gazette Movie Editor
A group of Steel City expatriates who have forged powerful careers in show business are returning home this weekend to promote a new vision for Pittsburgh as a film and television production center.
They want to utilize the city's own natural resources -- its people and institutions -- and its largely untapped Hollywood connections to develop talent, scripts and entertainment projects that would bring in jobs and revenue.
The Pittsburgh Entertainment Summit, to be held Saturday at the WQED studios in Oakland, will introduce the concept to an invited audience of 200 civic, business and political leaders.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20031021summit1021p1.asp
October 2003
A cast and crew of movie-savvy Pittsburghers want to save our film industry from ending up on the cutting-room floor.
