'Point Blank' to be filmed in Cincinnati featuring 'Captain America,' 'The Purge' alums

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Film Cincinnati announced on Tuesday that the action-thriller movie "Point Blank" will be filmed in Cincinnati this August.

The Netflix original will feature actors Frank Grillo and Anthony Mackie who both starred in Marvel movie's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" and "Captain America: Civil War."

Independent film studios Gaumont and WarParty will produce the movie in Cincinnati.

Ohio is providing nearly $2 million in tax incentives, said Kristen Schlotman, Film Cincinnati executive director. The organization recruits movies to film in Cincinnati.

The movie has a crew of over 100 and 490 extras.

"Films this size can spend up to $250,000 a day when filming," Schlotman said.

"Point Blank" is a remake of the 2010 French film directed and written by Fred Cavayé.

Netflix's "Point Blank" tells a similar story of an unlikely pairing of an emergency room nurse, Paul, and wrongly accused crime suspect, Abe, against gangsters and corrupt police, according to a Film Cincinnati release.

The movie will feature a deadly race through Cincinnati to save the lives of Paul's kidnapped wife and unborn son, according to the release.

Six weeks of filming around Cincinnati will start Aug. 6.

Skyline Chili will be among Cincinnati favorites featured in "Point Blank"

Cincinnati-based human resource and risk management provider Sheakley Group and realty company Sibcy Cline will both be featured in "Point Blank."

One of the producers, Johanna Byer, is coming home for the first time in 10 years to film "Point Blank."

"Point Blank" considered filming in Atlanta and other cities. The original plan was to fake the city of Los Angeles as the movie's setting, she said.

Setting the movie in L.A. was dropped when Cincinnati offered a tax credit.

"We knew that we would shoot Cincinnati as Cincinnati," Byer said. "And we would do a love song to Cincinnati and feature local businesses and ArtWorks murals and everything we love about my hometown as genuine and not shoot Cincinnati as L.A."

Producers have already been in Cincinnati for six weeks scouting filming sites prior to Tuesday's announcement. There will be an additional four weeks of post-production after the six weeks of filming ends.

"It's so special for us to scout a city that we are going to feature in all its glory," Byer said.

Cincinnati ice cream will not necessarily be part of the movie.

"We had a scene with Ben and Jerry’s, but that’s obviously not Graeter’s," Byer said.

The 31-year-old Byer was a teen when she got to watch the movie "Traffic" filmed in her Indian Hill home. She will stay at her childhood home during filming.

Producers Joe Carnahan, Frank Grillo and Byer will film "Point Blank" at locations including around the James Brown ArtWorks mural.

How to be an extra

Send a short biography and current selfie photo to casting for "Point Blank" to pointblankextras@gmail.com.

The story was corrected to reflect the "Point Blank" movie that is being remade.