The PR rolls on, and how fitting since we are talking about Hollywood PR capitol of the world. I always wondered why an Apple store suddenly appeared in Stamford when places like CompUSA closed. The film production industry might be the harbinger. It takes many apples to make a film these days.

“Major studio movies are considering Connecticut right now and hopefully will be here to prep soon,” he said.

Much of filming will take place in Norwalk, Stamford, and the surrounding areas, Segalla said.
A slew of movies — like “In Bloom” and more recently “College Road Trip” and “Old Dogs” — have been recently shot in the city and two more are on the way in mid-September, Segalla said.

“The Six Wives of Henry Lefay,” starring Tim Allen and Andie McDowell, is slated to shoot in Norwalk and Stamford beginning September 17.

“Dancing with Shiva,” a film from director Jonathan Demme — of “Philadelphia” and “Silence of the Lambs” — will begin shooting locally the same week.

Tad Diesel, Norwalk’s Director of Marketing and Business Development said the recent laundry list of area films, and the presence of the Connecticut Film Center, will spell winter success.

“I suspect we’ll have a much busier winter than last winter because we have had activity and we have a studio,” Diesel said.

Though the city has not yet hosted handfuls of movies during the winter months, Diesel said Norwalk will be ready to handle scores of off-season moviemakers.

“I think we’re better prepared now for a film than we were a year ago,” he said.

The Norwalk studio, which is currently being used by a film, will see another feature arrive at the site as soon as the current project departs, Segalla said.

“We expect the facility to be busy over the next nine months,” he said.

The flood of winter movies set to hit the area will build on what has become a growing industry in the state.

Will people start “doing” lunch instead of “having lunch” soon? Will more Starbucks be opening? While there’s much talk of the new film production studio, let’s not forget about the palace; profiled herein digital content producer.

… Palace Production Center, Inc., one of the more successful mid-size television and electronic media production organizations in the country. Palace owns and operates Connecticut-based Palace Digital Studios and Praxis Media, Inc., and also has offices in the Tribeca Film Center in Manhattan. Additionally, he is a managing partner in Rabbit Ears Entertainment, LLC, an award-winning children’s and family publishing company; and Docere Palace Studios, a non-fiction television production company.

Since its founding in 1979, Praxis Media, Inc. has completed in excess of $55 million in contract programming and is rated one of the nation’s top 100 independent contract producers by Hope Reports.

Palace Digital Studios is home to numerous broadcast and cable television networks, independent producers, corporate communicators, and ad agencies, offering HD and SD audio and video production and post, a broadcast studio with motorized lighting grid, 2D and 3D computer graphics design and animation, video duplication, standards conversions and multimedia production services to the tri-state area’s production community. For several years the Tour de France was broadcast through Palace in Connecticut and Palace studios in New York were a major supplier of production services to the advertising community and to MTV, Viacom, and A&E, to name a few. Last year, Palace was tapped to produce the opening video for the December 2006 White House Summit on Malaria.

source: The Hour, Area winter forecast calling for influx of filmmaking By Amanda Pinto, September 6, 2007