Only Hollywood could make Long Beach’s CityPlace look crowded. With the loss of two of its anchors, Wal-Mart and Fresh & Easy, the place has been like a grown-up kid just taking up space on the couch. Now Mom comes in saying, “If you think you’re just going to lay around here all day doing nothing, you’ve got another think coming, Buster.”

So it goes out and gets a job, renting out the underutilized space for a film shoot this week by crews from the Netflix series “Arrested Development.” The crews transformed the space Tuesday into a setting for a crowded political rally featuring a cast of scores of extras urging people to “Vote for Sitwell,” so evidently the show’s Stan Sitwell (Ed Begley Jr.), owner of Sitwell Industries, will be throwing his hat into one ring or another.

The stars and crew will be filming through Friday from Third to Fifth Street and at 433 Pine Ave. – and it will be an extravaganza featuring a parade scene with a marching band, seven floats, 10 picture cars and a cement truck spilling cement (food-graded slush) at the corner of Fifth Street and The Promenade.

The filming is for the resuscitated comedy series that languished on Fox for three seasons where it suffered from epic mishandling and poor promotion. The show was a critical favorite, bagging more awards than viewers, until it was canceled in 2006.

The show’s devoted fans, however, kept the thing alive just by rumors and social media. It was supposed to be picked up by Showtime (it wasn’t). Finally, in 2012, filming began for a revived fourth season and 15 episodes were released at once on Netflix in 2013.

Then came rumors of a Ron Howard-directed full-length feature film (as brought up in the final episode of Fox’s season 3, which maybe you didn’t see because Fox put it up against the opening ceremonies of the Olympics just to fill dead air), but that’s largely fallen through.

Starting in August, however, production began on the fifth season, which Netflix will release next year. The 17-episode season will feature the show’s full cast, including star Jason Bateman, fresh off the Netflix crime drama “Ozark,” which he produced, directed and starred in.

In other filming news, “Bumblebee,” the sixth movie in the “Transformer” franchise, will be filming at an undisclosed location in Long Beach on Oct. 13. Should be a pretty big deal and we’d tell you where it is, but we’ve already said too much. We already have a price on our head.

“Bumblebee” is notable because it’s the first in the curiously successful series not to be directed by Michael Bay, which probably explains the relatively skimpy budget of $92 million (this year’s “Transformers: The Last Knight” had a budget of $217 million, which it quickly recouped with a box office of more than $600 million).

Instead, animator Travis Knight (“Kubo and the Two Strings”) will make his live-action directorial debut with “Bumblebee,” based on the Hasbro VW Beetle toy boy the same name. The film is a prequel, taking place several years before the first “Transformers.” It’s set for a Christmas release.

“Major Crimes” is paying a few of the city’s bills by filming tonight and Thursday in Naples; “American Crime Story” has been filming at the Silver Fox bar on Redondo; and “The Fosters” are back to shoot at the family’s home in Bluff Park on Monday.