• The town: A great deal of shooting has been taking place around the Monroeville, PA area. This is a fairly big town around 10/15 minutes outside of Pittsburgh, best known for housing the mall where “Dawn of the Dead” was filmed. In fact, a day of shooting was spent inside the mall last week, where shoppers actually witnessed Seth Rogen doing a walk and talk with costar Craig Robinson. But it doesn’t end there - While the original draft of the script named Minnesota as the location, is it remaining as such? A local closed high school has been renamed “Monroeville High School”, convincing us that the town in our film will indeed hold that title. This makes sense, given all the free signage that they can now shoot (city signs, street signs, etc). Plus, Monroeville, Minnesota has a nice ring to it.
• So far, the film has been very location-based. No work on any sound stages, so far (from what we know). This means that we’ll see a lot of familiar locations from the Pittsburgh area in this one. As a new article confirms (in our next story), film crews have been spotted in the nearby town of Hazelwood, PA this week.
• Extras news - We hear some extras have been called to the set for filming of a high school related scene for the greater portion of this week. No word on exact dates. No word on how many extras are being used for this scene — While we know a few details of the nature of the scene, we are keeping it under wraps for now for fear of potential plot spoilage.
• Other extras news - Our friend and Clerks II banner contest winner, Paul, heads to town next week to film his onscreen appearance. Fans will be jealous when they hear what and where it is. Needless to say, it pays to enter Kevin’s contests and perform well.

That about sums it up, at least for the moment. Check out the most recent SModcast for a nice segment where Kevin and Jay discuss the first 3 days on set. We imagine that SModcast’s weekly episodes from Pittsburgh will continue to offer great film tidbits, which we’ll summarize as best we can. We’ll also be archiving all the best bits for the Zack & Miri production site. Stay tuned, the excitement’s just getting underway.