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Films shot in New York City

  • Avengers: Infinity WarAvengers: Infinity War ends with Thanos watching a sunrise after erasing half of all life.
  • The Avengers (2012 film)Joss Whedon read the first Avengers script and said to pretend it never happened.
  • Spider-Man: No Way HomeSpider-Man: No Way Home drew 355.5 million global views for its first trailer in the first 24 hours. No trailer had drawn more views in such a span. Avengers: Endgame held the old record at 289 million, and the Far From Home trailer had…
  • Taxi DriverPaul Schrader wrote Taxi Driver in ten days while living in his car. He had been through a divorce and a breakup.
  • Synecdoche, New YorkRoger Ebert named Synecdoche, New York the best film of the decade in 2009. Another critic gave it a D+.
  • Annie HallAnnie Hall began as a murder mystery, not a romantic comedy. Woody Allen's 1977 film dropped the murder plot.
  • The GodfatherMarlon Brando stuffed cotton balls in his cheeks to audition for The Godfather. Paramount resisted casting him.
  • Highlander (film)The 1986 film Highlander began as a UCLA student's class assignment. Gregory Widen sold the script for US$200,000.
  • The Devil Wears Prada 2The Devil Wears Prada 2 collected 181.5 million views for its first teaser trailer in just 24 hours, reportedly the most for any comedy trailer in 15 years. That teaser appeared on the 12th of November 2025. It promoted a 2026 American…
  • Jurassic World RebirthJurassic World Rebirth begins in 2008 on Île Saint-Hubert, a research island in the Atlantic Ocean. There, the company InGen keeps mutated dinosaurs that its own head considers disturbing. One of them, a six-limbed Tyrannosaurus called…
  • The Devil Wears Prada (film)The Devil Wears Prada, a 2006 American comedy-drama directed by David Frankel, has a famous villain who made her entrance in a whisper. At a table read in New York, Meryl Streep spoke Miranda Priestly's first line so softly that the whole…
  • The Day After TomorrowTo wreck New York in The Day After Tomorrow, artists built a 13-block digital model of Manhattan.
  • Men in Black 3Will Smith pitched Men in Black 3 in 2002: send Agent J back in time to save Agent K.
  • Jacob's Ladder (1990 film)In the 1990 film Jacob's Ladder, a psychic tells a man he is already dead. Jacob laughs it off as a joke.
  • Marty SupremeMarty Supreme is a 2025 American sports comedy-drama directed by Josh Safdie, and its title is a brand name that exists only inside its own story. In 1952, a young New York table tennis player named Marty Mauser pitches bright orange…

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