Tube City Almanac

February 18, 2011

To Do: Pancake Breakfast, Port Vue on Screen

Category: Announcements, Events, News || By Staff and Wire Reports

Pancake Breakfast Tomorrow: The McKeesport NAACP will hold its annual pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday at The Common Ground (the former YWCA), 410 Ninth Ave., Downtown. All are welcome!

Tickets are $5 for adults or $3 for children under 12. Call (412) 673-2206.

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'Four' Opens Today: The new movie "I Am Number Four," which opens today, includes footage shot along Glenn Avenue, Liberty Way and Port Vue Avenue on the border between Port Vue and Liberty.

Based on a young adult science fiction novel by James Frey and Jobie Hughes, the film was produced by Michael Bay (the Transformers movies) and directed by Daniel "D.J." Caruso (TV's "Smallville" and "The Shield"). Although the film is set in the fictional town of Paradise, Ohio, most principal footage was shot last spring in the Pittsburgh area.

Other locations used in the film include New Kensington, Vandergrift and Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville. A studio in Monroeville was also used for some scenes.

The trailer includes footage shot along Glenn Avenue in Port Vue, including a scene of a police car flipping in mid-air.

Reviews are so far mostly negative, with The Onion's AV Club website criticizing the film's "cheesy" and predictable storyline, "recognizable from many past films." The Chicago Sun-Times' Roger Ebert calls the movie "shameless and unnecessary" and says the story amounts to special effects "intercut with brief bursts of inane dialogue."

But the Post-Gazette gives the movie three stars, saying it "delivers the alien action goods" and is "one of the better recent movies to be made here."

(And Tube City Almanac's film critic, F. Stop Fitzgerald, raves, "If you see only one movie shot in Port Vue this year, 'I Am Number Four' should be Number One on your list!")

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I only hope Port Vue uses some of the money they got from this film to fix glenn Ave. That road is horrid.

I won’t be holding my breath.
pavelbure - February 18, 2011



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