• BROOKS TO FILM IN BROOKLYN – IT’S BIALYSTOCK AND BLOOMBERG

    September 29, 2004

    Newsday – Bialystock & Bloom is relocating to Brooklyn. Mel Brooks will shoot his remake of “The Producers” in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, not far from the Williamsburg neighborhood where he grew up as Melvin Kaminsky. “My heart leaps with joy to know now that we are going to film right on these streets, the streets that I grew up on,” Brooks said during a news conference yesterday at the newly opened Steiner Studios.

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  • PRODUCERS PICK DOCKS AT NAVY YARD

    September 29, 2004

    Variety – New York’s Steiner Studios — the brand-new site at the Brooklyn Navy Yard – said Tuesday that Mel Brooks’ “The Producers: The Movie Musical” will be its first project as New York state and city announced a package of tax incentives to lure production to Gotham. A sea of some 300 pols and press gathered at the Navy Yard as Brooks, a Brooklyn son, trashed Toronto’s bagels as “mushy” and imitated a Yugoslavian extra trying to say “closing time.”

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  • SPRINGTIME FOR BROOKLYN

    September 29, 2004

    The New York Times – Mel Brooks, flanked by Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Pataki, said yesterday that he would film “The Producers” at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick reprising their stage roles. He said he was happy that tax breaks would allow him to make the movie here instead of in Canada, especially because of “the bagels, just the bagels alone. You go to Toronto, they’re mushy.”

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  • N.Y. WELCOME MAT

    August 13, 2004

    Variety – In a major victory for the local industry intent on slowing runaway production, a bill just greenlit by New York’s Legislature will pass out $100 million in tax credits over four years to film and TV production companies working in state.

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  • BROOKLYN STUDIO SEES BIG PICTURE

    May 10, 2004

    Crain’s New York Business – When Jonathan Sanger produced the film Vanilla Sky four years ago, he convinced the city to close down Times Square for two hours for a special on-location scene with Tom Cruise. But when it came time to do the lengthy soundstage work, he decided to set up shop in Los Angeles, using the crews and studios there. Now, Mr. Sanger is getting ready to produce the film version of the smash Broadway hit The Producers, starring Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane and Nicole Kidman. This time around, he plans to make the entire movie in New York. What’s different about this picture? Steiner Studios, a

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