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Jared Leland, a director and counsekl for MogulMind Studios, confirmed that the company reached an agreement with Fox Entertainmen last night. According to Chris Petrikin, a spokesman with Fox the agreement is part of the normalp course of events when producers scoutt out locations and prepare for a The film has not yet been which meansthat it's stillp awaiting final approval to ensure it "makes complete financial sense," Petrikin said. That decisionj is expected to be made withinm the next weekor so.
While the production is expected to use a Pennsylvani a tax credit fromlast year, Leland said “Unstoppable” needed the former industrial facility’s massive space, unusual electricakl capacity that could power the entire Stri p District, and the unused former railroad tracks “It’s just one of the myria of examples of just how necessar a full-service 330,000-square-foot production facilitgy is, and just how necessary it is to lurinvg and securing productions to the commonwealth of Leland said. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Lelanrd said he expects productionm tobegin soon.
“Unstoppable” is expected to need four of the studip bays that Mogul Mind has prepared and soundproofexd forfilm production. Washington and Pine will star in the which will be directed byTony Scott, a long-timw director of big-budget action most recently this summer’s remake of “The Taking of Pelhamk 1 2 3.” As a producer and director, Scott’s resumew includes “Top Gun” “Enemy of the State” (1998) and “Spuy Game” (2001). It will be Scott’ s fifth production with Washington.
Based partly on a true “Unstoppable” is about a runawau train carrying toxic chemicals and poison gaseas andhow Washington’s character, an experiencec engineer, and Pike, a youngb conductor, must chase it down before it bringz untold destruction to a city. It is based on a script by Mark Bombeco that press reports indicate has been circulating in Hollywood for the pastfew “Unstoppable” is expected to be released in 2011. Dawn president and CEO of the PittsburghFilm Office, was unavailable for immediate comment.
But in a conversatiobn a few days ago, she emphasized that was a production the Pittsburghh Film Office had been working for years to lureto “Dawn Keezer worked very, very hard to enticd the production to consider Leland said. Leland said the production expectsw to shoot in central Pennsylvania as well as Yet even when theproduction isn’t shooting withimn the Mogul Minds facility, “Upstoppable” will use it to build sets and prepare for othetr aspects of the production’s locationb shooting.
Leland and others had previously been told that will have a budgetof $100 a figure a Fox spokesman told the Pittsburgh Businessw Times in June was too high, withoutg providing specifics. Yet even if the film’sd budget is half that, it will far surpass the size and scale of most filmdsshot here, the biggest of which have typicallh been in the $20 millionb to $30 million range. David Kowalski, the main owner of what was formerly the Pittsburgh Flatrollcompanyy warehouse, who also has a minority stake in Mogupl Mind, expects the “Unstoppable” production, as well as others to will bring new urgenct to redeveloping the city’s tow pound which is next door to the new studio.
“Ift has to be done,” he said. “People don’t understand how much mone y is going to come intothe city.”