Movie begins filming in Boutte

A production crew was filming in Boutte, including scenes shot outside of Majoria’s Supermarket Monday – though the name of the project has not yet been revealed.

Staff members on set kept that information secret, telling the Herald-Guide they were not permitted to share any information about the production.

“They just wrapped up over here … they were filming a part of a movie,” said Shea Majoria, Majoria’s co-owners. “They’re going to be around the parish until Saturday, I believe, doing different shots for different things.  It was nice, they hired some local deputies to keep everything situated. It went really smooth.”

Majoria also noted the crew was tight-lipped as to the movie’s title.

There are four film projects noted to be filming or in pre-production to be filmed this month in the greater New Orleans area.

Home Movies is the title of a feature film that was slated to begin filming Monday, according to the website FilmNewOrleans.org. That film’s production is slated to run through May 12. A clue toward that being what was filmed at Majoria’s Monday might have been nearby parking signs for crew under the initials “HM.” Very little has been written about the project online.

Faces of Death is a remake of a 1978 horror film that was a hit at the box office, grossing $35 million worldwide. The remake stars Barbie Ferrara of Euphoria fame and Dacre Montgomery of Stranger Things. The film will serve as a total reboot of the controversial movie series that consisted of several sequels. Reports have been that the project began filming in the past week and LouisianaEntertainment.gov notes it as one that was to begin filming this month in the New Orleans area.

In the original Faces of Death film, a narrator presents the viewer with a variety of footage showing different gruesome ways of dying from a variety of sources. Some of the most iconic scenes were faked for the film, while most of the film is pre-existing video footage of real deaths or the aftermath of death.

Five Nights at Freddy’s reportedly began filming last month and is to film through April in the area according to LouisianaEntertainment.gov. That is a supernatural horror film directed by Emma Tammi and the plot is adapted from the video game of the same name. The plot of the film surrounds Mike Schmidt, a troubled security guard who starts a night-time job at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, a family entertainment center, where he discovers its four animatronic mascots move and kill anyone that is still there after midnight.

Finally, Cash Out 2 was scheduled to begin filming in the New Orleans area Monday, like Home Movies, according to FilmNewOrleans.org. The first Cash Out was a project that starred John Travolta and was directed by Randall Emmitt, though it has yet to be officially released.