The Sorcerer’s Apprentice set

There’s never a shortage of filming going on around the neighborhood, so much so that most of the time I take them for granted, just checking the permits that go up to see how it effects my alternate side of the street parking game – a treacherous one in this area at that! I may recognize the production taking place, but usually keep it moving; although I have to admit there have been recent highlights, such as seeing Ice-T and Coco with their “his and her” Bentley’s when Law & Order SVU was being filmed here.  The other, was the recent production for Disney’s “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice“.

One night Last week Rachel and I were walking down Eldridge Street, and from three blocks away we could see the bright set light up the sky. From a distance you could see the multiple rows of lit-up, red, chinese lanterns strewn across the buildings. As we got closer, it looked as if the entire set was sparkling and shimmering like stars falling from the sky, it was an amazing thing to see up close, as if we were experiencing the ‘magic’ of making movies firsthand. Every curious passerby stopped to look in amazement at this very magical looking set and my pictures below can’t even come close to conveying what we were all seeing take place in the wee hours. Although I haven’t been a fan of Nicholas Cage’s recent movies, I am intrigued on how “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” will be received at the box office, and how this will translate and look on-screen when it does get released in 2010.