How many popular movies or TV shows can you name which feature Colorado... (Denver: title, campus)

[Neditate]

Originally Posted by Dport7674

In 'About Schmidt' Jack Nicholson goes to Denver for his daughters wedding. I don't know if it's actually Denver or not.

Some scenes were filmed in Denver and Boulder. I believe it was filmed before the film commission budget was slashed. About Schmidt (2002) - Filming locations

[Scott5280]

Originally Posted by Neditate

Many films and tv shows supposedly set in Colorado are also filmed in British Columbia. It's all about incentives. The incentives offered to film here are not as good as other states or Canada; the funding is limited. (One of my friends used to work for the film commission and left when they cut the budget.)
For example, New Mexico and Utah offer film production companies a 25% tax credit. Colorado Film Incentive program offers producers a 10% cash rebate for production costs, and there are also quite a few restrictions/guidelines.
If you are interested you can look at: http://www.coloradofilm.org/incentives.html and compare to: State Film Incentives | Screen Actors Guild

Thanks for the links, I knew about New Mexico but was unsure if that was the case in Utah.

[proveick]

We made it into a Progressive Ins commercial.
Downtown Springs winds up in national commercial - Colorado Springs Gazette, CO
RP

[dnvrsoul]

What to do in Denver when your dead-weird movie but I love it...I watch it when I get too homesick.

[CAVA1990]

Originally Posted by treedonkey

9) Jeremiah Johnson (actually it was mostly shot in Utah, but he was supposed to be all over the Rockies)
10) Butch and Sundance - Basically the same as #9, except add Bolivia

Appropriate some of it was shot around Durango since Harry Longabaugh (Sundance) as a teen lived in La Plata County.

[phetaroi]

Going waaaay back...1932..."Silver Dollar" starring Edward G. Robinson. Although the names were changed (to protect the guilty???), it's a fairly accurate story of Horace Tabor of Leadville silver fame. While details are fictionalized, the basic story follows his life pretty accurately (other than his death), and it leaves out the interesting aspect about how his second wife then lived in poverty in the shack on his old Leadville mining claim for the remainder of her life. You can occasionally catch it on TCM. Of course, it was filmed in Hollywood.

[GreenScoutII]

Heres an obscure one... Dee Snyder's Strange Love. As some of you might recall, he was the lead singer of the 80's hairband Twisted Sister.

Anyway, his movie, while poorly made and hard to follow was shot in Colorado Springs and Denver.

[davidv]

In City Slickers the cowboys drove the cattle from New Mexico to Colorado.

In Defending Your Life, Albert Brooks picks up a coffee table book about Judgement City that has a picture of Denver on the cover.

Cops and The Real World both did a season in Denver.

Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman was set near Colorado Springs

Frasier was originally supposed to be set in Denver, but the setting was changed to Seattle after the state passed its anti-gay Amendment 2 (which was later thrown out by the courts).

BTW: Centennial was written was James Michener was studying and teaching at UNC. The library at UNC is named after Michener, and his personal papers were bequeathed to the university.

[iknowftbll]

Perhaps the most recent example is Tim Allen's "Last Man Standing" which is set in suburban Denver. Aside from it being a pretty funny show, there are some cool references to the Broncos, John Elway, and other Colorado icons. The show is currently in its first season.

[Neditate]

Originally Posted by iknowftbll

Perhaps the most recent example is Tim Allen's "Last Man Standing" which is set in suburban Denver. Aside from it being a pretty funny show, there are some cool references to the Broncos, John Elway, and other Colorado icons. The show is currently in its first season.

That is cool. Haven't seen the show, but he's from Denver (born there, moved to MI after his father died).