'Spotlight' shines on Pittsburgh

By Tim Schooley, Pittsburgh Business Times

Two more feature films are set to enter stage left into Pittsburgh.

A supernatural thriller titled "Shelter," and slated to star Julianne Moore, expects to begin shooting in Pittsburgh in late March

"Shelter" is a project of NALA Films LLC, a Los Angeles-based company. Its best-known film to date is "In the Valley of Elah," a family drama that involves the Iraq war.

Darlene Caamano Loquet, president of NALA and producer of "Shelter," described the project as being in pre-production, as it finalizes casting and scouts locations here. She expects the shoot to take six weeks, and the film has an estimated budget of $20 million to $25 million.