Is the yards a true story?
The film was based on a real-life corruption scandal in the mid 1980s that involved the father of co-writer and director James Gray. For Leo’s and Willie’s fight, Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix agreed to actually fight each other. The filmmakers decided to film at an old abandoned freight yard and a studio set.
Where was the movie The Yards filmed?
The film was shot in Maspeth and Elmhurst, Queens, Roosevelt Island, the Bronx, and New Jersey. The railyard scenes were shot at the 207th Street shop on the New York City Transit system and at an abandoned freight yard in Brooklyn.
What’s the movie The Yards about?
After serving time in prison for taking the fall for a group of his friends, Leo just wants to get his life back on track. So he goes to the one place he thinks will be safe — home. There he takes a new job with his highly connected and influential uncle. But in the yards, where his uncle now pulls the strings, safe is not how they do business. Unwittingly, he’s drawn into a world of sabotage, high stakes payoffs and even murder.
The Yards/Film synopsis
Did Chris Brown Act stomp the yard?
Stomp the Yard is a 2007 American dance drama film produced by Rainforest Films and released through Sony Pictures’ Screen Gems division on January 12, 2007….
| Stomp the Yard | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Columbus Short Meagan Good Ne-Yo Darrin Henson Brian White Laz Alonso Valarie Pettiford Harry Lennix Chris Brown |
| Cinematography | Scott Kevan |
When was Wahlberg born?
June 5, 1971 (age 50 years)
Mark Wahlberg/Date of birth
Actor and former rapper Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg was born on June 5, 1971, in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
What year was the movie The Yards made?
October 20, 2000 (USA)
The Yards/Release date
What does Stomp the Yard mean?
It involves synchronized dramatic movement, singing and chanting. Stepping in a yard show or formal probate is a coming-out for black fraternities and sororities to represent their respective fraternity or sorority and to show off their new members. It’s also the subject of the recently released film, “Stomp the Yard.”