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  Man on the Inside is SF's biggest film shoot in years Here
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  are the locations. This article is being read
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  by an automated voice generated by Everlet. San Francisco's long been a
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  favorite location for Hollywood productions, but in recent years the filmmakers have
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  returned to the city in droves. Seduced by both the city's picturesque
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  locales and a newly unveiled rebate program, film crews have scattered across
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  the city over the past few weeks, with sightings of everything from
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  classic nineteen thirties cars to A list actor Ted Danson. Although San
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  Francisco scored some screen time during summer standout The Invite and was
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  the principal location for highly anticipated Josephine, the most extensive production in
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  recent years is the forthcoming third season of Netflix's a Man on
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  the Inside. It may have even eclipsed 2021's The Matrix Resurrections, which
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  saw serious stunt work like low flying helicopters and rooftop jumps. To
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  our knowledge, Ted Danson isn't doing any stunts, but he's certainly traversing
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  a good deal of the city in twenty eight days of shooting.
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  Usually we come up here for a week and make it look
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  like where filming in San Francisco Not this year. We are here
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  all the time, all of the streets, Danson said in an Instagram
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  video with Mayor Daniel Lurie. Danson went on to invite his wife
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  and co star Mary Steenbergen on camera, where she revealed that she
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  fell in love with Danson in San Francisco, and she met her
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  previous husband here as well. True to his word, Danson has been
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  all over. Plus the production spent a few days in San Carlos.
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  Film SF provided SF Gate with once twenty nine pages of documents
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  outlining where the production has filmed through october twenty second. The shoot
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  runs until november sixth. Eagle-eyed Redditors noticed a few of the locales,
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  most notably Danson walking up to the Ferry Building, the site of
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  the Lurie video, and City Hall, where they filmed on september twenty
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  eighth. The San Francisco Armory, once known as the headquarters of pornography
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  producer Kink.com, has gotten a new life hosting large-scale events like Netflix's
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  Stranger Things experiences and served as a site for interior scenes. Another
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  major landmark featured will be the Legion of Honor, which Hoestewed a
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  nighttime shoot. Shortly after hosting Dolly Day, Union Square Plaza served as
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  another filming location in late September, and of course any San Francisco
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  production wouldn't be complete without a cable car shot, which the crew
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  pulled off at the intersection of California and Jones. Other notable exteriors
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  were filmed in Chinatown on the six hundred block of Jackson Street,
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  the seven hundred block of Grant Avenue, and Saint Louis Alley. Danson's
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  likely to spend most of his time in the series solving a
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  mystery, but it appears that he's taking some time out to eat
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  and drink as well, visiting several prominent San Francisco businesses. David's Delicatessen,
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  which has been operating on Geary since nineteen fifty two, hosted the
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  crew on october ninth. It appears Danson may have had himself a
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  power lunch, stopping at noted political stomping ground Sam's Grill on october
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  fourteenth. He also made his way into Cathedral Hill to Tommy's Joint,
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  an old stomping ground for Metallica's band members, shout out to the
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  Thursday night Beef Bourguignon special. And Danson and Company also hit Comstock
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  Saloon, a favorite of Anthony Bourdain on his twenty twelve visit to
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  the city. The plot of this season revolves around a grand dame
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  of San Francisco Society, played by Bernadette Peters, so a few locations
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  offer a more sophisticated view of the city. Historic members only Knob
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  Hill Landmark The University Club was featured for both interior and exterior
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  shots earlier this week. The cast also visited the Curran Theater, which
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  opened in nineteen twenty two. And although it's now a music venue
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  hosting everything from punk rockers to EDM DJs, we're guessing that the
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  Regency Ballroom was chosen more for its ornate interiors than its musical
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  bookings. And while it's probably not Danson's spry Charles Neuendick character, it
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  looks like at least one character in the series may have a
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  health scare, as the crew shot both interiors and exteriors at the
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  Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. A release date for season three has
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  not yet been set, but the first two seasons are streaming on
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  Netflix, and if his experiences in the past are any indication, Danson's
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  likely enjoying himself greatly while he's in town. I went to Stanford
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  for two years, didn't accomplish much, Danson told S. F. Gate in
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  twenty twenty four. But I did get to the city a lot.
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  I won't say anything about Carol Doda. But it's just gorgeous, it's
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  beautiful, the food's amazing. I still get a thrill jumping on a
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  cable car.