ICE CUBES: Dead Man Down filming halted after North Philly shooting

There's no word yet as to whether or not filming will continue at the neighborhood warehouse.

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ICE CUBES: Dead Man Down filming halted after North Philly shooting

POSTED: Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 1:00 PM

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After several days of shooting gunfire scenes for Dead Man Down along Walnut Street, I casually asked Greater Philadelphia Film doyenne Sharon Pinkenson where the next film locations would be. “Unless we're affecting normal traffic, we can't give that info out,” said Pinkenson on Monday. “Tomorrow's warehouse shoot is in an industrial area, someplace where I've never been.”

That spot wound up, sadly, getting publicity this morning after an as-yet-identified teenager was gunned down at Kinsey and Tackawanna in the East Frankford area. According to Phillly.com, that youth was pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital late yesterday afternoon. Pinkenson confirms that shooting will resume at the warehouse soon. But I want to leave you with one questionable thing Dead Man Down co-producer Joseph Zolfo told CBS 3-TV on Monday: that Philadelphia is so great a city to film in, because it's so accepting of staged gun fights ...

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