We stuck it in Day Around The Bay already, but thought we would let you hash it out here in its own pad, readers. It seems that, according to the preciousness that is Dan Noyes, "the Silent Drill Platoon of the U.S. Marine Corps wasn't allowed to be filmed Sept. 11 on California Street in San Francisco for a segment of its new advertising campaign." Stefanie Coyote, executive director of the San Francisco Film......

The SF Int'l Film Festival isn't just about great national and international movies -- they've got music events, gala events, talks about the state of cinema, an online presence through SF360.com, and -- what we stopped by to see this afternoon -- a series of panels about the state of cinema today. Today's panel was about the state of the film scene in San Francisco, and included basically every single movie-related constituency group in......

Grampa Simpson last year, Gavin appears to be channeling another person at the start of 2007, that of an attendance officer. After complaints were made about attendance problems with various city commissions and problems tracking them, the whip is now going to be cracked whip to make it so City Hall can know who is a flake and who is not. ...

On Wednesday we relished reading Matier and Ross's column about a brouhaha involving the San Francisco Film Commission. Seems that while shooting days in The City are up, all is not well between the commissioners and the executive director, Stefanie Coyote -- whom loyal SFist readers will remember from her previous brouhaha with deposed Treasure Island impresario Tony Hall over the Rent production. So Stefanie gets in a fight with former deputy director Michael Billington......

Holy Cow, has San Francisco actually been able to get something done? A few months ago, everyone was hemming and hawwing about how nobody shoots films here anymore and that the city really oughta make it easier for film companies to come in and do their dirty sinful business. There were new appointments made at the city's Film Commission, and some SF-endorsements from celebrity filmmakers, but back then we doubted that anything would really......

First we had to deal with the drama of New Yorkers whining over Rent interiors being filmed on Treasure Island, prompting Revolution Studios to assure Gothamist that exteriors would be shot in NYC. Now we have to deal with former Supervisor and current Treasure Island Development Association director Tony Hall whining over Rent interiors being filmed on Treasure Island. No, Tony isn't nostalgic for the East Village of the early nineties -- he's more......

Filming has started for the upcoming Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo romantic comedy "If Only It Were True," based on an adaptation of local novelist Marc Levy's 2000 novel of the same name. If you don't recognize the location, it's 16th and Valencia - photoblogger Bill of Mermaniac tells us the bookstore location has been renamed is "Abandoned Planet". It seems there's already been a sighting of Ms. Witherspoon at Dolores Park over the......