Reese Witherspoon, Jack Nicholson, Owen Wilson making movie in DC

June 5, 10:04 AMDC Art Travel ExaminerMarsha Dubrow

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Jack Nicholson, Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, and Paul Rudd are making a movie in Washington, DC.  

The romantic comedy, by writer-director-producer James L. Brooks ("Broadcast News"), is not yet titled.

Brooks, who filmed "Broadcast News" in Washington, termed DC "the great city of the world."

Brooks said in a statement, "...no matter how long or hard the day was, on my drive home, I could always look forward to the beauty of the city.  It is, to me, the great city of the world.  I couldn’t be more excited to be able to work here once more.”

Witherspoon plays softball in the film -- she can learn; she learned to sing for  "Walk the Line" and won an Oscar. Owen Wilson is now in another DC-centric film "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian". Rudd is in "I Love You, Man" and (cue DC-centric jokes) "Monsters vs. Aliens".

Nicholson, who plays Witherspoon's father, won Oscars for two other Brooks films, "As Good As It Gets" and "Terms of Endearment".

The story is a love triangle among Witherspoon and Wilson, a professional baseball pitcher, and Rudd, a business executive. DC locations include the Nationals Stadium, Dupont Circle, and a renovated building that used to be a ballroom in the Adams Morgan neighborhood.

DC Mayor Adrian Fenty and the film's producers announced that Columbia Pictures hired "over 100 local crew and several hundred local extras," and "several qualified DC students" for on-the-job training. Local crews instead of Hollywood imports, that's unique.   

Another semi-unique aspect: actors coming to Washington to act in a film rather than lobby Congress and the White House for their issues.

For more info:  Film industry in the District of Columbia, www.film.dc.gov, or call the Office of Motion Picture and Television Development, 202-727-6608.