Art & Exhibitions
Movies Made in Philadelphia: Selected Posters from the
Greater Philadelphia Film Office
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In 1975, Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa, made Philadelphia famous
by running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and raising his arms
in triumph in Rocky. Philadelphia soared again, with Rocky II in 1978. Shortly
thereafter, Brian De Palma made two films in Philadelphia, Dressed to Kill
(1979) with Michael Caine and Angie Dickinson, and Blow Out (1980) starring
John Travolta. The film industry continued to return to Philadelphia shooting
many popular movies including Taps (1981), Rocky III (1981), Trading Places
(1982), and Witness, (1984) winner of two Academy Awards.
Filmmaking
in the Philadelphia region had reached an all time high. But this was only the
beginning. In 1985, the Philadelphia Film Office was created to market the City
of Philadelphia and its surrounding region to the film and television industry.
In 1992, with the mayoral appointment of Sharon Pinkenson as its Director, the
Film Office became a regional economic development agency representing the five
surrounding counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia.
Today, Pinkenson serves as Executive Director of the Greater Philadelphia Film
Office, a non-profit corporation launched on July 1, 2000.
Since its
inception, the Film Office has attracted many feature films to the area. Most
notably, Mannequin (1986), Rocky V (1990), the Academy Award winning movies The
Age of Innocence (1992) and Philadelphia (1993), Twelve Monkeys (1995), Beloved
(1997), as well as movies directed by Philadelphian M. Night Shyamalan
including The Sixth Sense (1998), Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002), and The
Village (2003).
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