Arts & Entertainment

Newly Updated Gallery: Grown Ups 2 Sound Stage Going Up

Photos from a neighbor near the movie set shows it taking shape over three weeks.

 

It’s the Taj Majal of tents this sound stage.

In three weeks a Phillips Park corner has gone from a cleared field to a foundation of shipping containers to a high-rise, steel-frame tented building.

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When complete the sound stage will be 45,000 square feet and 80 feet tall. It will allow the movie crew to film a night "wild party" scene during the day. 

The tent will have black drapes to block out the sun and will include a pool and a facade of a house inside the tent, location manager Charlie Harrington told zoning board members.

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The sound stage, which may be the first of its kind in the state, is targeted for completion in about three weeks.


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