Brownsville Set to Mark “Stand By Me Day”
This month, a small Oregon town off Interstate 5 north of Eugene is set to celebrate a classic movie that was filmed there.
“Stand By Me” is a 1986 coming-of-age drama filmed mostly in Brownsville, Oregon, and is based on Steven King’s “The Body.”
The story takes place in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Oregon, and follows four boys on their journey to locate the dead body of a missing boy.
Brownsville has historically celebrated Stand By Me Day — complete with a blueberry pie-eating contest referencing a somewhat grotesque scene from the film — annually on July 23, according to the Oregon Historical Society.
Bruce Campbell and his wife, Ida Gearon, join the Jefferson Public Radio’s “Jefferson Exchange” to discuss their upcoming new film “Ernie & Emma,” which was shot entirely in Southern Oregon.
#OregonMade and Portland shot “Night Always Comes” has released a trailer and set a release date on Netflix. Vanessa Kirby plays Lynette, a flawed, yet determined, anti-heroine who embarks on a dangerous, one-night odyssey through Portland’s criminal underbelly in a desperate attempt to gather enough cash to keep her family from eviction. Based on the best-selling novel by Willy Vlautin, Night Always Comes is directed by Benjamin Caron and debuts only on Netflix, August 15.
Lewis Pullman and Maya Hawke will join forces for the surrealist relationship comedy “Wishful Thinking,” Variety can report exclusively.
Although we aren’t lucky enough this year to have any projects that were shot here in Oregon being nominated for an Emmy award, we do have several people who live here in Oregon that have been part of the nominations. In fact, that is one of the stronger selling points of Oregon, our talent. Sometimes that talent isn’t able to work in our state but we like to celebrate them anyway.
#OregonMade “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” will be returning to theatres 50 years after its initial release. The Miloš Forman film will celebrating its anniversary with a nationwide theatrical re-release. The film has become a bit of a sensation — the second highest grossing picture of 1975, behind “Jaws,” while receiving nine Oscar nominations.
“Capturing the Wild with Photographer Jody MacDonald” features rock climbing, epic views, and wild adventure and it was shot in Smith Rock, Fort Rock and Steelhead Falls in Central Oregon.
1859, Oregon’s Magazine, recently featured several iconic locations on the Oregon Film Trail as part of an article entitled “Ready, Set, Action.” With a focus on projects using locations like Portland, Ashland, Crater Lake, Astoria, McMinnville, Burns, Eugene, Salem and Depoe Bay, 1859 guides you through how and where to stay to experience the locations for films like “Twilight,” “Wild,” “Lean on Pete,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and, of course, “The Goonies.”
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