Lights! Camera! Allen! Allegany County town hosts Paramount Pictures movie shoot

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Lights! Camera! Allen! Allegany County town hosts Paramount Pictures movie shoot

Paramount Pictures is shooting a full-length feature film in the sparsely populated Town of Allen in northern Allegany County

Madonna Figura Simon
Published 8:45 a.m. ET Apr. 8, 2021 | Updated 6:25 p.m. ET Apr. 8, 2021

Lights! Camera! Allen!

Allen? Yes. Right now, Paramount Pictures is shooting a full-length feature film in the sparsely populated Town of Allen in northern Allegany County. Cast and crew are on location at an Amish farm on a dirt road. The production company is using the Short Tract fire hall as its base camp.

The movie, which could be released next year, is set in a fictional Amish community, which is why Paramount location scouts chose the white, two-story Amish-built farmhouse. The property had been vacant.



Location scouts for Paramount Pictures chose this house in the town of Allen as the location for a movie being shot there this spring. (MADONNA FIGURA SIMON PHOTO)

A nearby barn now houses all of the accoutrements of filmmaking: lights, cameras and sound equipment. Signs above the barn stalls denote spaces for wardrobe and props. A COVID-19 screening area occupies a large space. The set is closed to visitors as part of the movie industry’s pandemic protocols.

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[BigmanPigman]

1. Who would just abandon a huge house like that?

[murielm99]

2. There are a lot of abandoned houses in rural areas.

In some places, family farms are bought up by larger owners. If the farmhouse is decent enough, the new owners may rent it out to a tenant. If the house is in need of modernization or repair, it can just sit and rot as far as the new owners are concerned.