Top 20 Movies Filmed in Austin

As a result of Austin’s long history of advantages for filmmakers, it’s home to a number of high quality studios. It also has a wealth of crew, creative,and talent professionals local to the area. Both these local professionals and the Austin Film Commission make filming in Austin easy and cost-effective. The local government entities also understand the value of filming in Austin and offer their support to make filming as streamlined as possible.

Austin’s location is also convenient to reach, no matter from where people or equipment is coming. Its international airport has nonstop flights all over the United States, Mexico, and Canada, including between Austin and Los Angeles.

Best of all, Austin is just one of the coolest cities in the world. Your entire team will love spending time living in Austin, enjoying its live music and laid back atmosphere.

Here’s a list of the top 20 movies, so far, that have been filmed at least partially in Austin:

1. Lonesome Dove (1989)
2. Sin City (2005)
3. Spy Kids (2001), (2002), (2003), and (2011)
4. Wire in the Blood (2002)
5. Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (2003)
6. Route 66 (1960)
7. Office Space (1999)
8. Mortal Kombat (1995)
9. Miss Congeniality (2000)
10. Grindhouse (2007)
11. Blood Simple (1984)
12. 25th Hour (2002)
13. True Grit (2010)
14. Murderball (2005)
15. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993)
16. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
17. Friday the 13th (2009)
18. Dazed and Confused (1993)
19. Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
20. Hope Floats (1998)
21. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), (2003), and (2006)

Alright, that’s 21 on the list, but “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is too great a classic to leave off the list.

The variety of genres represented on the list shows how versatile Austin can be. Austin is a great place to film a western, but the list also has its fair share of chick flicks, slasher films, stylized stories of the Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino, and moving dramas. It’s also worth noting how often filmmakers returned to Austin to film more movies in the same series. Between “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Spy Kids” alone, seven great films have been made in Austin, Texas.

This range of films also shows how Austin can support the filming needs of both major motion pictures as well as the smaller, quieter pictures. A number of movies filmed in Austin have gone on to gross well over $100 million.

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For simplicity’s sake, the FS700 uses interchangeable E-mount lenses, the same lenses that Sony uses on its NEX line of digital single-lens reflex cameras. This ensures a wide range of lenses and guaranteed replacement inventory since E-mount lenses come standard with so many Sony cameras.

The FS700 has not just one but two built-in neutral density filters, a 2-stop and a 4-stop. The ND filter allows the camera operator to standardize color over a variety of different situations, improving color intensity. Speaking of color, this new Sony camera comes with a Super 35 complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, or CMOS, sensor. Admittedly not as high end as a charge-coupled device, or CCD sensor, the CMOS still allows for 11.6 million pixel sensitivity.

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