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Wednesday, September 16, 1998 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Willis starts shooting in Phila. Monday Look for The Inquirer Report Card on the Schools coming September 20th. saving private ryan i i I A Auto Insurance! 215-464-6448, 215-457-4995 (Doylestown) to Rt. 41 3 to Fairgrounds. United Craft Enterprises 6tm ltS-1230 Low Cost As low as $61.

Downl prtVr NeZiJl INSANCtoilTliT Cjt" FILM from D1 Production headquarters are at the Civic Center in West Philadelphia. The historic convention facility was retrofitted in 1997 as a soundstage where Jonathan Demme filmed Beloved, starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover, last year, Sixth Sense will also film at city locations, including Head House Square, the Rittenhouse Square area, the Striped Bass restaurant on Walnut Street, and Broad Street near City Hall, familiar to Willis, who shot scenes for 12 Monkeys in the shadow of Billy Penn. According to residents of the Fair-mount section, who received a notice from the production company, the 2000 block of Mount Vernon Street will be a location on Sept. 28 between 6 and 10 a.m. Those familiar with the production schedule say that most of the movie will be made in Philadelphia, but that a private residence in Blue Bell will be the site of some important scenes.

Disney's media blackout on the project is a rerun of the famously controlling studio's modus operandi during the making of Beloved. Thus local casting guru Mike Lemon is "not at liberty to comment" on how sr. tt. i 750 Juried Craftspeople and Fine Artists from Across the Country Contemporary Traditional Quality Crafts Original Fine Art Delicious Foods Entertainment Andtan Folk Musk by Rains dtl Viento Saturday 10 am to 6 pm Sunday 10 am to 5 pm Free Parking Undercover Rain or Shine i Adults $5 Children under 12 Free The Fairgrounds is located South of New Hope on Rt 413 North of Tyler State Park on Rt 413 From Philadelphia, West S. South: Rt.

202 to Rt 413 to Fairgrounds or 1-95 to Newtown exit Rt. 332 to Rt. 413 to Fairgrounds. From NY, East: 1-95 to Newtown exit, Rt. 332 to Rt.

413 to Fairgrounds From Allenlown the Poconos: Rt. 309 to Rt. 202 to Rt. 413 to Fairerounds. From Easton North: Rt.

611 to Rt. 202 'Rounders' knocks off 'Mary' The Matt Damon poker movie Rounders won an $8.5 million pot in its debut, knocking There's Something About Mary out of its top slot in the traditionally slow post-Labor Day weekend. The Disney studio's Gump-ish Simon Birch performed well on just under 600 screens, but not so newcomer Let's Talk About Sex, which bowed with an abysmal $213,347 take on 250 screens. Last Total Weeks No. of Rank Title Studio weekend gross out locations 1.

Rounders (Miramax) $8.5 million $8.5 million 1 2,176 2. Something About Mary (20th C. Fox) 7.0 million 139.2 million 9 2,555 3. Blade (New Line) 5.2 million 56.4 million 4 2,389 4. Saving Private Ryan (DreamWorks) 4.5 million 173.1 million 8 2,705 5.

Simon Birch (Disney) 3.3 million 3.3 million 1 596 6. Ever After (20th C. Fox) 2.3 million 57.2 million 7 1,913 7. Knock Off (Sony) 1.9 million 8.3 million 2 1,800 8. Snake Eyes (Paramount) 1.6 million 52.5 million 6 1,681 9.

Armageddon (Disney) 1.6 million 194.1 million 11 1,334 10. StellaGroove (20th C. Fox) 1.5 million 34.0 million 5 1,275 SOURCES: ACNielson E0I Inc. and Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc.

jfat virr iTir.i i a. a EVERY AUDITORIUM EQUIPPED WITH many locals are being hired so the production doesn't have to pay airfare and lodging. Sixth Sense's economic boost to the city "will be in the $8 million range," estimates Sharon Pinken-son, executive director of the Film Office. This figure is reckoned by computing the cost of hotel room nights, salaries for local actors and technicians (including city wage taxes), and vendors including Bell Atlantic Mobil, Teague Lumber and Wissahickon Spring Water, as well as carpenters and caterers. Pinkenson's role is to bring film and TV productions to the region.

Her job was made easier in that this project conceived by Shyamalan (pronounced SHAH-ma-lawn), a graduate of Episcopal Academy who lives in Conshohocken was written specifically with the city as a backdrop. The writer-director, 28, made Praying With Anger (1993) after completing his studies at New York University. His 1998 film Wide Awake, about a 10-year-old Main Line boy who literally and figuratively finds God, was shot in and around Philadelphia. In November, the filmmaker's original script for The Sixth Sense was the subject of a fevered bidding war that topped out at $3.1 million, believed to be the highest figure paid for an uncommissioned screenplay. Almost as unprecedented, his script was immediately a "go" project meaning that it required no further development and was immediately put into production.

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3j The Philadelphia Inquirer PABLO ALCALA M. Night Shyamalan got a hefty sum for his screenplay and will direct the film. He lives in Conshohocken. many local actors have been hired for the film, though one familiar with the casting details confirms "lots, in smaller roles." Because of Sixth Sense's comparatively modest budget (Beloved was in the $65 million neighborhood), Temple University Public Radio hosts An Evening With SONNY ROLLINS SEPT. 19, 8 PM Box Olflct24-Hr.

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