Hollywood comes to Bay Terrace

The movie crew for &#8220The Devil Knows You're Dead,” a dramatic thriller staring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, and Marisa Tomei, recently wrapped-up on-location filming at the Bay Terrace shopping center.
The cast and crew have moved to a house in Bayside at an undisclosed location and final sequences of the movie will be completed on an interior sound stage in Astoria.
The film, directed by Sidney Lumet, is about an older couple, Albert Finney and Rosemary Harris, who own a jewelry store in suburbia, which is robbed. Their sons are played by Hawke and Hoffman who, in the film, is married to Tomei.
Based on a screenplay written by Kelly Masterson, the movie will leave viewers in suspense because none of the family members know which of their kin is responsible for the heist.
The film's title is taken from the Irish saying, &#8220May you be in heaven half-an-hour . . . before the devil knows you're dead.”
&#8220This is a drama built around a heist plot,” said the movie's co-producer Brian Linse. Linse raved about the location and the residents of Bayside during a break at Bay Terrace shopping center on Tuesday, July 18.
&#8220We have literally had no problems. It's been an absolute joy shooting here,” he said on Tuesday. &#8220The shop owners have been very patient with the interruptions.”
Linse said that he was also very pleased with how similar the Bayside shopping center looked to one in Westchester, where the movie is set. At Bay Terrace, the movie crew created a shell store in a vacant space to recreate the jewelry shop that the protagonists own. Although the outside of the store reads &#8220Hanson's Jewelry,” the inside has nothing but a camera set up to the door, where one of the film's action sequences takes place.
The movie's producers did not consider renting Alicia's Jewelers - four stores down - because it would have been much more costly than creating a fake store.