Director Kevin Smith chats with a local (who was wearing a boombox as a necklace) during the filming of A Couple of Dicks in Ridgewood. — Photo by Diego Cupolo
Mr. Butch Coolidge, better known as Bruce Willis, is in town and he brought the army of tractor trailers that have been clogging up the blocks around Cypress and Myrtle Avenue for the last two days. Well, actually, about half of Hollywood has invaded Ridgewood to film A Couple of Dicks, a Kevin Smith film slated to debut in early 2010.
The movie is about two cops on a quest to find a stolen 1952 baseball card and stars Mr. Diehard, Tracy Morgan, Seann William Scott, Adam Brody, Jason Lee, Kevin Pollack and a bunch of other schmucks. Crowds gathered around the Ridgewood Veterans Triangle to sneak a peak at the long list of celebrity cast members as the movie crews shot a scene in the Cellular Fantastico USA cell phone store.
Apparently, the puritans at Warner Brothers wanted to change the name to “A Couple of Cops,” but it seems like the phallic title has risen above the controversy. Smith and his crew will be filming the movie throughout the summer in neighborhoods all around Brooklyn and Manhattan.
nerdifer June 24th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Not sure if its related, but they was a film crew setup all day and into the night yesterday at Flushing & Wilson. They were shooting inside Tina’s Restaurant.
Queens Crapper June 24th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
They were on Metro and Grandview last Friday.
Matt June 25th, 2009 at 11:04 am
ahhh, so that’s wtf was going down on monday. Drove by on my way home from golfin’. It drew a huge local crowd. I thought it was a rally until I saw the lights, etc.
HOPE June 26th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Is this the same thing that was shooting on Flushing and Wilson? My roommate saw trailers, lights, etc the other night (maybe Tuesday) around 10pm at Tinas Diner.