Your New Jersey (Episode 529)

As we all know by now, New Jersey's film industry is experiencing tremendous growth.

What was it like making a feature film here and seeing the state's production infrastructure firsthand?

Yeah, New Jersey's a unique location because we have a great slew of great crew here.

Now in New Jersey itself, prior to the last few years people would take crew out of new york and there's still some great people in new york that are coming here so you have you're you're able to crew up where back in the day you were only in california and everybody was in california and new jersey's been very aggressive as a state and i believe the new governor has been very supportive of keeping the uh film incentives alive so those big studios they're here because they want to take advantage of what i just explained tax incentives crew and great settings you can be beach you can be city you can be you know, skiing in the winter.

You could do a lot here.

What is it like having to pull permits and dealing with onlookers? What was that like for you?

Yeah, that was interesting.

I mean, you know, there was some little weird issues with some permitting, but luckily everything worked out.

We did have to move the entire company, meaning the entire production from one location in one town to another because the other town was much easier to deal with.

But It's always a process and they're very, most of the towns up here are very film friendly.

They want the business because you're using their coffee shops and their food and you're paying for permits and you're paying for different things in the area that help economic development.

So they're very friendly with that.

As far as crowds, the one location where we had Steve Guttenberg and Christie Brinkley, there were neighbors that circled around, people were taking pictures and the cast, the two of them were super gracious and took pictures and were really nice and It worked out.

Another location was very buried, so we didn't have too much crowd stuff, but the amount that we did was manageable and we welcomed it because we're in the entertainment business.

We're doing it for the audience.

Exactly.

And movies, as you just pointed out, are big business.

What an economic boom you gave to those towns and those small mom and pops.

I live in Morris County and Adam Sandler has been filming around here this summer, going to Floor and Bark Diner, taking pictures and selfies with all of the patrons.

What that does to a small business is invaluable.

Yeah, you're right.

He's been great.

I've seen, I've never met him, but I've seen he's been shooting around here even right by where Paul and I live.

And yeah, I mean, it's great.

Everybody gets excited and then people want to go see the movie because they can see where it was shot.

As we all know by now, New Jersey's film industry is experiencing tremendous growth.

What was it like making a feature film here and seeing the state's production infrastructure firsthand?

Yeah, New Jersey's a unique location because we have a great slew of great crew here.

Now in New Jersey itself, prior to the last few years people would take crew out of new york and there's still some great people in new york that are coming here so you have you're you're able to crew up where back in the day you were only in california and everybody was in california and new jersey's been very aggressive as a state and i believe the new governor has been very supportive of keeping the uh film incentives alive so those big studios they're here because they want to take advantage of what i just explained tax incentives crew and great settings you can be beach you can be city you can be you know, skiing in the winter.

You could do a lot here.

What is it like having to pull permits and dealing with onlookers? What was that like for you?

Yeah, that was interesting.

I mean, you know, there was some little weird issues with some permitting, but luckily everything worked out.

We did have to move the entire company, meaning the entire production from one location in one town to another because the other town was much easier to deal with.

But It's always a process and they're very, most of the towns up here are very film friendly.

They want the business because you're using their coffee shops and their food and you're paying for permits and you're paying for different things in the area that help economic development.

So they're very friendly with that.

As far as crowds, the one location where we had Steve Guttenberg and Christie Brinkley, there were neighbors that circled around, people were taking pictures and the cast, the two of them were super gracious and took pictures and were really nice and It worked out.

Another location was very buried, so we didn't have too much crowd stuff, but the amount that we did was manageable and we welcomed it because we're in the entertainment business.

We're doing it for the audience.

Exactly.

And movies, as you just pointed out, are big business.

What an economic boom you gave to those towns and those small mom and pops.

I live in Morris County and Adam Sandler has been filming around here this summer, going to Floor and Bark Diner, taking pictures and selfies with all of the patrons.

What that does to a small business is invaluable.

Yeah, you're right.

He's been great.

I've seen, I've never met him, but I've seen he's been shooting around here even right by where Paul and I live.

And yeah, I mean, it's great.

Everybody gets excited and then people want to go see the movie because they can see where it was shot.