Olive View Offer : After Roadblock, Stallone Filming Finds Hospital-ity
The makers of a new Sylvester Stallone movie may have run into a roadblock in their efforts to use the Simi Valley Freeway for filming, but a healing gesture has come their way with an offer to use the county’s yet-to-open Olive View Medical Center.
Hospital Administrator Douglas Bagley said Los Angeles-based Cannon Films has inquired about shooting scenes in the lobby and one of the patient rooms at the Sylmar hospital, and that he is amenable.
The company would be required to pay $400 a day to use the hospital, in addition to a $110 filming permit and $25 fire fee, according to Pat Nativo, film permit coordinator for Los Angeles County.
Cannon has been filming road scenes for the “action love story” titled “Over the Top” near Castaic, Nativo said.
But a proposal to close the Simi Valley freeway for five consecutive days of filming between July 14 and Aug. 2 has run into opposition from the Simi Valley and Moorpark city councils.
Council members said that closing a three-mile stretch of the freeway to film precision truck stunts would unfairly burden commuters living in the Ventura County cities.
The California Film Office is trying to arrange a compromise that would allow some filming on the freeway.
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