I have a small office/studio space a block or two from there, and last night all of the parking spaces in the area (for something like a 3 block radius) were blocked off with official city meter tents/signs for yesterday and today, from 6-7pm, with the purpose "film" printed on them.

The parking attendant at the garage under O'Bryant Square told me he had heard that filmmakers were going to blow up a car.

There was no actual filming activity in the area yesterday, as far as I could tell... just a parking mess.

I wonder how much it cost the film crew to reserve all those parking spaces downtown? (I do hope it at least cost them the equivalent loss in meter revenue.)

Maybe they're shooting an adaptation of Erik's 'Warriors' comic. Check it out!

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/040913-War…

Word has reached us at the Merc that they have blown up the car! I was at lunch.

While they were on Broadway blowing up the car, they still had multiple blocks of Park barricaded from parking -- with no filming going on, preventing me from legitimately using the freight entrance to my building for the 2nd day in a row.

Minor correction... it wasn't Leverage, it was a Harrison Ford/Timothy Dalton movie.

Carry on.

re: Han Solo and Encino Man blow up a car

Why would a movie with this plot, "A drama centered on the efforts of John and Aileen Crowley to find a researcher who might have a cure for their two children's rare genetic disorder" have car explosions?

The more you know... the less stupid things you say.

I was there on my lunch break...there were director's chairs that said "Leverage" sorry folks!