Originally posted June 7th, 2013
A production company will be filming scenes overnight from Friday, June 7th to Thursday, June 13th and on Saturday, June 15th and Sunday, June 16th that will involve special effects and sounds, including intermittent simulated gunfire. Filming will take place from 7pm to 6am each night and will be limited to a closed set of Fox’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, within the 100 and 200 blocks of South Rampart Street, the 1000 block of Common Street, and the 1100 block of Tulane Avenue. These blocks are closed to traffic through June 24 as part of a traffic plan that can be found at www.nola.gov/film, the home page for Film New Orleans in the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Economy.
