Mariah Carey movie transforms Wyoming
Bright stars — and bright Christmas lights — continue to shine in Wyoming.
And "A Christmas Melody," the Mariah Carey-helmed Hallmark Channel film, is building buzz from sidewalks to social media.
The production crew filmed Thursday at Wyoming and Oak avenues, Village Green and the 400 block of Wyoming Avenue.
Hyde Park hosted filming on Tuesday, before the crew moved to Downtown Wyoming Wednesday.
"A Christmas Melody" is slated to air on Hallmark at 8 p.m. Dec. 19 as the final original film of the channel's Countdown to Christmas series.
Lacey Chabert of "Mean Girls" will star in the movie, which is about a music teacher who helps a young girl who is new in town write a song for the community's Christmas show.
Actor Brennan Elliot of "Strong Medicine" and "Flight 93," is also attached to the project.
The film was initially titled "Melody & Mistletoe."
The Christmas project is the second film in production in Cincinnati this fall. The action flick "Marauders" is in the second week of production in Downtown Cincinnati.
"Marauders" stars Bruce Willis of "Die Hard" fame, as well as Christopher Meloni, of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," and Dave Bautista, of "Guardians of the Galaxy."
The Carey Christmas project is the fourth film production that's come to Greater Cincinnati this year.
James Franco, Vince Jolivette and Jay Davis shot "The Long Home," the film adaptation of the novel by William Gay, in Hamilton, Butler County and Cincinnati this spring.
In early summer, actors Nick Jonas and Ben Schnetzer came to the region and filmed "Goat," an adaptation of a memoir about a 19-year-old who experiences ritualistic hazing after he and his brother join a college fraternity.
Cincinnati-shot films are also making their big screen debuts this year. "Carol," shot in the area last year, debuted at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Two other 2014 projects filmed in Cincinnati – "The Blunderer" and "Miles Ahead" – have not yet been released. "Miles Ahead," the Don Cheadle/Miles Davis project, will close the 53rd New York Film Festival Sunday.
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