11. The Firehouse - Ghostbusters (1984)
The ruined Lower Manhattan derelict that the start-up Busters make their home. In reality it's the still-operational firehouse at 14 North Moore Street, which also made an appearance in Hitch.
12. The Joint - Burlesque (2010)
Despite the construction work going on when the Google truck visited, the zig-zag fire escape gives away the Ricardo Montalban Theatre on Vine Street in L.A., bought by the actor to help promising Latino thesps.
13. Shanghai - Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen (2009)
This isn't really Shanghai at all, despite those fancy road signs, but the view of an overpass on Shoreline Drive in Long Beach, California.
14. The Tenenbaum House - The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Tenenbaum's towering Manhattan brownstone is a fancy corner building way uptown at 144th Street.
15. The Academy - Star Trek (2009)
This shot of the Star Fleet Academy in chaos as a giant laser strikes earth is actually a digitally altered look of the Delmar T Oviatt library at the centre of Cal-State University's Northridge campus, which we present from the veiw of a potentially death ray-weilding satellite.
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StevePotter
Jul 5th 2011, 7:22
Pretty cool article, and as an American I appreciate you guys doing it. One question: isn't the place from the Untouchables also in the Dark Knight when they're having a funeral for Commissioner Loeb? It looks identical.
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QuietLife
Jul 5th 2011, 11:29
I really enjoyed that article! Some iconic images and it was really cool seeing them in real-life (so to speak). Makes me wish I went to a school in LA though!!
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graemeross
Jul 12th 2011, 14:28
Great great article but the article name was 99 American movie locations and you seem to of stuck to LA & NYC. Now I know that most movies are filmed in these locations but i was expecting a little more iconic locations. In my spare time i like to try find movie locations through google earth and street view and have found loads that i would of expected to be in an article like this. For example the house from the bruce willis movie Hostage, Sleepless in seattle House, Teen Wolf house, Jim's house from American Pie, Murtaugh house from Lethal Weapon, Jerry Maguire house etc... Would love you to do another of these articles but make it more open.
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