The Only Thing Worse Than A Film Shoot That Shuts Down Your Neighborhood For Several Days Is A Film Shoot For A Scene That Doesn’t Actually Make It Into The Film

The producers of Men in Black 3 spent several days shooting in Carroll Gardens for scenes that were eventually cut from the film:

[A man], 20, who works at Cobble Hill Cinemas at Court and Butler Streets, said that when he told moviegoers the film was shot right in front of the theater, they called him a liar.

A few moments of footage shot at the north end of Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn, near Borough Hall, flash by in the film, but nothing, apparently, from Carroll Gardens itself.

The studio, Sony Pictures, would not answer questions about what was and was not in the movie.

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A physical therapist groused that while the movie was being filmed, his patients could not park near his office and had to walk an extra block.

And [a local blogger] was among the disappointed. One of the reasons she went to the movie, she said, was to see how it justified shutting four or five blocks of Court Street to traffic two or three nights in a row.