[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Sponsored: Popular movies, TV shows zoom in on Vallejo" (former Mare Island Naval Shipyard, CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Sponsored: Popular movies, TV shows zoom in on Vallejo

By Peggy Spear 
Beaumont Enterprise
October 19, 2018

Vallejo is ready for its close-up.

It’s been almost a century since the first movie was filmed in the seaside town, a 1924 thriller called “Devil’s Cargo.” Now, with the help of the base closure at Mare Island, the city is becoming one of the most popular Northern California destinations for filming network and cable television shows as well as big-budget movies.
 
The popular series about teen suicide, “13 Reasons Why,” is probably the most notable show being filmed in the city, at least until “Bumblebee” is released this Christmas. Both of those blockbusters were filmed in converted studios on Mare Island, complete with the high school gymnasium seen in “13 Reasons Why.”


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For the entire release, see
https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Popular-movies-TV-shows-zoom-in-on-Vallejo-13316053.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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