Did they close the COSTCO to shoot this?

For a Movie budget? That's nothing.

As far as I know, that's not a lie. I live in Albuquerque and was at the Cotsco while they were filming parts of it once. And I also heard from relatives in Santa Fe that parts were going to be shot there. So hipster is no lying bastard. That's the actual truth.


"I don't think they'd let someone like me carry a gun." ~Memento

Oh yea....They spent quite a long time setting up that area in the steel. Being a night forklift driver myself I was also asked to "set up" some of the isles for shooting....Remember in the film when Dax was showing off his cashiering techniques to the ladies and came to the bag of dog food that had the UPC scan missing and then shot his laser scanner to that Pedigree dogfood pallet in the steel??? Well it was yours truly who put it there. Also my big scene was when I got to be a stand in with Dane and Harland.....Back on the dock when they were playing "paper covers rock" for some snacks....I'm the guy standing next to Harland with the yellow head gear on.

Pretty cool eh????

Actually Harland was funnier than Dane off camera and much more approachable.

If anyone still cares...I was the boom guy on this. We shot at the Costco in Albuquerque at night. We all arrived and waited outside as the last customer left, then they had to "secure" the store for about thirty minutes to be sure customers were out and money and such was put away. We then moved in and shot as fast as we could all night until we were booted out about an hour or so before opening so they could open as normal. This restricted shooting to about 9 hours sometimes, as opposed to a normal 12, and was very difficult. Stocking went on as usual while we shot. The only adjustment was they stocked in one area while we shot in another. Forklifts beeped most of the time, but they were able to isolate that frequency and remove it to an inaudible level in post. The other noise we had to live with...airconditioners, exhaust fans, refrigerators could be shut off for a few minutes but never long enough. This was pretty tough for the actors to perform through. But all the dialogue, gratefully, was what we recorded on the day. The roof was the actual roof, as was the parking lot. We shot the day stuff very early as to not inconvenience customers. Costco makes WAY more money each day than production could afford to pay. This movie shot for about $12m I think.

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According to an article in the Seattle post each Costco averages more than 100 million dollars a year in sales. Which comes out to a little less than 275k a day. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/166680_costco29.html

Touche


and either way, how much a company makes a month in gross, is not how much it gets to keep there is expenses

also companies can rip people off if Wal-Mart makes 1-Billion a year and costco makes $5.00 i would rather shop at costco because that means that what i've bought cost the store just as much so there not ripping me off