The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Madcat and I returned from an 18 day Vegas trip about 10 days ago. While we were cutting through Bally's they were filming a new movie set for release in 2013:

"The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" starring Steve Carell and Jim Carrey.

It was interesting seeing live filming with the casino still in operation. They made a fake gift shop for the Burt Anton character near the Indigo Lounge and they also replaced the sparkling Jubilee Theater sign with a "Burt Anton Theater" sign. It was a neat thing to see. We did see Steve Carell dressed in garb from quite a distance.

I'm mainly passing this on because as it was something different than normal and most of us love Las Vegas related movies.

Incredible Burt Wonderstone

If you go to Binions or the Four Queens Facebook page they have pictures of Jim Carrey on the set when they filmed downtown.

You can also see pics of my 36,000 dollar jackpot that someone else hit. LOL

Thats pretty cool,would love walking thru a casino and see a movie being filmed. We did walk upon a a scene being shot for the robin williams film 'death to smoochie'. We were walking thru times square in NYC doing the tourist thing and there was williams up on some kind of stand talking loudly to a crowd. Crowd controlconsisted of a few guys just saying 'move along please'. They were really nice,told evrybody what was going on when asked(barely knew a film was being shot otherwise) and what the name of the movie was and everything.

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Is kind of cool getting to see behind the scenes and then seeing how it comes out on the big screen.

This also gives new meaning to "Break a Leg" in a casino.

Sometime in the mid-80s DonDiego saw Rock Hudson filming a made-for-TV movie, "The Vegas Strip War", on a mezzanine above the main casino floor in the Desert Inn.
DonDiego wandered up there during a break in filming and shook Mr. Hudson's hand. He didn't look very healthy. It was his last movie.

Sometime in the late-80s DonDiego observed the filming of a "Crime Story" episode downtown on Fremont Street right in front of Binion's. Dennis Farina was the star and between takes he'd set on a stool next to the Big-Six Wheel at the entrance to Binion's and shoot the breeze with the tourists. Over about 3 hours, there might've been about 6 or 8 minutes of actual filming.
There were lots of vintage cars on the street; if DonDiego remembers correctly it was supposed to be the 1950s. The car owners were just sitting in their cars with the engines idling collecting something like a $300-per-hour rental fee. DonDiego wished he had a vintage car.

It looks like it's gonna be stupid, but I can't wait to see it!