How “Breaking Dawn” Filming Could Effect The Baton Rouge Economy & Other Tidbits About Film's Production

The Daily Revielle – Louisiana State University’s student newspaper – released a great article outlining the effects that Breaking Dawn filming could potentially have on the Baton Rouge economy. They discussed their aggressive approach to marketing Baton Rouge to Summit in order to get them to film the Breaking Dawn movie there, the potential growth of their community and more. Here’s an excerpt:

Amy Mitchell-Smith, executive director of the Baton Rouge Film Commission, said Summit has been scouting locations and researching Baton Rouge for “well over a month.”

Summit is still deliberating what will specifically be filmed in Baton Rouge, Mitchell-Smith said, but the production will begin sometime this fall.

Mitchell-Smith said she couldn’t confirm specific dates, but she expects the project will remain in the city until spring 2011.

“That in and of itself makes this, aside from the pop culture phenomenon aspect of ‘Twilight,’ something that will be hugely beneficial for the [Baton Rouge] market,” she said.

Breaking Dawn, the fourth chapter in the “Twilight” story, will be released as two separate films in the franchise, which has grossed more than $1.4 billion worldwide to date, according to a news release from Summit Entertainment.

Getting the vampire film juggernaut to the Red Stick was the result of aggressive marketing by the Baton Rouge Film Commission, said Paul Arrigo, chairman of the BRFC and president of the Baton Rouge Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.

“The Baton Rouge Film Commission was very involved with soliciting and nabbing ‘Twilight’ for Baton Rouge,” Arrigo said.

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