Hollywood Cameras Roll In Massapequa Park This Week

While strolling down Park Boulevard today, you might have noticed something was a little different. Perhaps it was all the power cables strewn about the sidewalk. Or the lighting equipment. Or even the giant orange crane.

Massapequa Park is home to a major Hollywood film production this week, with location shooting taking place at Woody's Tavern and other locations on Park Boulevard.

The film, titled "Young Adults," is the latest endeavor by director Jason Reitman, responsible for 2007's hit film "Juno."

The production stars Hollywood A-Listers Charlize Theron and Patrick Wilson.

Linda Colangelo, the film's unit publicist, said that Massapequa is just one of many places where their cameras have been rolling.

"We're filming all over the Tri-State area- Rockland, Westchester, and here in Massapequa for a couple of days," she said. "But we're not filming consecutively. We've been back and forth."

Massapequa Park is currently subbing for a small town in Minnesota, where "Young Adults" takes place.

Preliminary shooting at Woody's Tavern began last week, resumed today, and is scheduled to continue throughout Saturday, October 30.

The entire front of the bar was engulfed by large black tarps this afternoon, as filming of a night scene was taking place inside.

In addition to Woody's, filming is also slated to take place at June Nail Salon across the street later in the week.

Colangelo revealed some of the movie's plot, in which Woody's Tavern plays a major part.

"The film is about a young adult book writer, played by Charlize Theron, who's down on her luck," she said. "She's living in Minneapolis and returns to her hometown to re-connect with her high school sweetheart, who happens to be married with a child. And it all kind of happens from there in terms of the return home, and what it's like to go back when she's this big-city person who's made a successful book series and now she's back home and in her local bar, which is where we're at today."

Colangelo stressed that "Young Adults" is more than just your average comedy.

"It's not a traditional romantic comedy in the sense that everything works out for all parties in the end," she said. "It's actually very, very innovative with an interesting script, and it's not the typical predictable thing people are used to."

"Young Adults" will be released by Paramount Pictures. The film does not have an opening date yet.