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WALT DISNEY MOVIE COMMING TO ROSARITO

conquestkm - 6-16-2008 at 09:55 AM

Disney Pictures coming to Fox Studios: The Rosarito, Ensenada area will be happy to hear that the Walt Disney Company will be filming “The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Trader”, a major motion picture at the site where "Titanic", “Master and Commander” and many other pictures were shot, at Fox Studios near Rosarito. Over 1,000 actors and support staff will be living and working in the area. This will give a boost to the local economy and once again Hollywood stars will be frequenting local establishments.

So, what does this mean to you and the Real Estate business as well as the rest of Baja?

One of the first things that it will do is show everyone that the area was considered safe enough for Disney to bring their people down to the Rosarito/Ensenada area for an 18 month period.

BajaSerg - 6-16-2008 at 10:25 AM

Whooooooooooa!!

Woooosh - 6-16-2008 at 04:38 PM

Fox sold the studio to a mexican company last year.

No movie stars or celeb directors- but lots of tech geeks in fantasy costumes playing in the sound stage water tanks.

So how did a non-story turn into a pump-and-dump pipe dream for real estate? Because real estate values in Rosarito Beach are down 25-30% this year (so far) so it's a good time for a hollywood-type to make a crazy low-ball offer.

But when they see the Trump project site still sitting idle a year after delivery was promised- they won't consider real estate as an investment. If Trump can't get a project with his own name on it finished down here (no matter who the partner is)- who can you trust? You'd think The Donald would at least make them take down the huge sales billboards with his photo and "Ownership is just the beginning". Apparently ownership is just the beginning of trying to get out of the deal and get your money back because they haven't even got approved plans or pulled building permits in TJ after all these yaers. I wonder if Ivanka Trump got her money back on the penthouse she supposedly bought.

Rosarito Beach isn't ready to test it's security and still has 50 soldiers sitting in for the police they fired last month. This military-in-your-face strategy (no other option anyway) is being tried in Italy soon to bring the street crime levels down. Rosarito Beach is just one bad news report from closing up town for the summer and far beyond- and 1000 more opportunites to take advantage of a freah-meat tourist won't be missed by the criminals- to be certain.


From the net on the movie...

"Also, as all we know, pre-production has already begun in Mexico. Mexican newspapers buzzed with cool news: "80% of the film "The Chronicles of Narnia 3" will be filmed in the Popotla sets in Rosarito over the next year, and it will have a considered cost of 100 million dollars. Oscar Escobedo, representative of the tourism bureau, confirmed that they are working with Walt Disney to make the film."

Escobedo explained: "Disney offers us the opportunity to promote Baja California as a destination for film projects. Since Titanic, this important goal has never been achieved."

During an eighteen month period, the team of "Narnia" will work in Baja Studios (previously owned by Fox), where "Titanic" and "Pearl Harbor" were made. Preproduction began several days ago. With Narnia, we would be finishing around one hundred projects, between trailers and shoots."

Fickle business

The Gull - 6-17-2008 at 04:16 AM

Don't count any chickens on the movie deal. The Business is quite unpredictable as to locations of a shoot.

Freebird - 6-18-2008 at 05:00 PM

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From the net on the movie...

"Also, as all we know, pre-production has already begun in Mexico. Mexican newspapers buzzed with cool news: "80% of the film "The Chronicles of Narnia 3" will be filmed in the Popotla sets in Rosarito over the next year, and it will have a considered cost of 100 million dollars. Oscar Escobedo, representative of the tourism bureau, confirmed that they are working with Walt Disney to make the film."


Not exactly 80% of the film... I was told that just the water scenes should be filmed in Rosarito. :?:

BajaGeoff - 6-20-2008 at 10:36 AM

The majority of the story takes place on a boat.....lots of water scenes.

The plot:

Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world.

bajaguy - 6-20-2008 at 10:37 AM

ah..... sounds like a typical trip to Baja....with all the ususal suspects

Woooosh - 6-20-2008 at 12:07 PM

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Originally posted by BajaGeoff
Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world.


Yup- It'll be hard to tell the castmembers from the locals.

BajaGeoff - 6-20-2008 at 03:57 PM

Aren't you a local Woooosh?

Which one are you?

Woooosh - 6-21-2008 at 07:33 AM

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Originally posted by BajaGeoff
Aren't you a local Woooosh?

Which one are you?


When they cast the balding mental midgets- I'll be first in line.