Shreveport-Bossier movies

If you've been wanting to be part of a locally-filmed movie, here's your chance. Producers of "Campin' Buddies" are looking for a principal actors and some background extras for the feature film, which stars Mel Tillis.

A couple of film projects are headed to Shreveport-Bossier this summer.

Producers for the movie "Olympus Has Fallen" have pushed back their filming schedule for the day. Instead of starting at 9 this morning, as originally planned, they're kicking things off at 3 this afternoon. So from then til 8, expect traffic interruptions on Marshall Street between Fannin and Milam ...

If the rain lets up today, movie filming for "Olympus Has Fallen" will resume. If it does, you can expect traffic interruptions in the areas of Texas, Marshall, McNeill and Milam in downtown Shreveport until 5 o'clock. From 2 to 9, Milam street between Marshall and McNeill will be closed for special effects -- which will include gunfire, explosions and smoke...

Yesterday's nasty weather -- and the threat for more of that today -- has shifted local movie-filming schedules a bit.

The Fourth of July is over, so why are all those flags still up in downtown Shreveport? The Downtown Development Authority says it's because right now, downtown is actually Washington, D.C. Millennium Films' new Gerard Butler / Aaron Eckhart thriller "Olympus Has Fallen" (formerly "White House Taken") is being filmed around the Caddo Parish Courthouse in the coming days. Read

Another big film comes to Shreveport-Bossier...and a big celebrity makes a repeat appearance for it. "White House Taken" is scheduled to begin filming next month. It stars Gerard Butler, whose first local movie-making experience was during shooting of "Playing the Field...