The brick building located at 635 Mateo St. in downtown's Arts District was built in 1929 and designed by the architecture firm of Allison and Allison, brothers who also built Royce Hall. “That’s what you have at the Los Angeles,” he says.The Good Luck Bar in Los Feliz; Credit: Jared Cowan At a couple of points in the film, Mannix meets with an acquaintance who works for a major corporation that would like to hire him for a job that would take him away from the circus of Hollywood. in Hollywood. A scene where Hobie picks up Carmen at her house is actually split into two different locations. The pair are accosted by the Thacker sisters, but Doyle spots the briefcase of ransom money, carried by Doyle follows Gurney to The Future's beach house but finds only Whitlock inside. A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line. decisions were easily made. During the filming of "Hail, Caesar! They have no hesitancy whatsoever to cheating reverses, and we did it time and time again.” Going into the project, one location the Coens had in mind was the top of Whitley Avenue at Whitley Terrace. Today the building is owned by the Southwestern Bag Co., a wholesale distribution firm that’s been family-operated for four generations. Mannix is seen a couple of times walking briskly through the main courtyard at Union Station while his assistant reads off his agenda for the day.

The Coens first pitched the story to George Clooney in 1999 during the shooting of O Brother, Where Art Thou? With Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes. If everybody in the neighborhood likes that person, then it usually goes very smoothly. “They wanted him out in the street. Rather, one period-appropriate hallway on the building’s second floor was used when Mannix steps out of the conference room filmed at the Cravens Estate. “I think [Joel and Ethan] wanted as much of an old-timey, authentic period studio look as they could get, and Warner Bros. clearly, heads, hands and feet, had it above everything else,” Panzarella says. “Before we had Carlotta’s house, we had Whitley Terrace.” Hobie displays his  talent for rope tricks while standing in the street waiting for Carlotta. Hail, Caesar is 30 hours in the life of Eddie Mannix in 1951. If that person has recently done a renovation and has pissed off everyone in the neighborhood, then it doesn’t go so well,” Panzarella says, laughing. When he started walking around and realizing the similarity of architecture between Warner Bros. and Union Station, that kind of sparked him to think about using it in addition to Warner Bros.,” Panzarella says. ; Credit: Universal Pictures When discussing the film’s locations with Panzarella, a location professional for more than 30 years, one of the most striking things about For most of the studio lot exteriors, though, Warner Bros. was the natural choice. When the first official trailer for Joel and Ethan Coen’s Hail, Caesar! shot at Warner Bros' studio in Burbank. Yet the Coens are no strangers to telling L.A. stories, and their newest film, which speaks to their genuine affinity for movies, could be their most personal next to 2009’s Finding golden-era locations in L.A. is no easy task, as we’re told by So grab your Roman gladius, put on your tap shoes and saddle up your horses — here’s your guide to the L.A. filming locations of the Coens’ newest romp, Josh Brolin and Heather Goldenhersh walk through the Warner Bros.

There’s a restaurant out in Reseda [the Great Wall] that we looked at.” The dimly lit, Chinese-inspired bar in Los Feliz, with its red color palette, was just one of the places in the mix, Panzarella says.

Additionally, Bronson Caves are unmistakable as part of a sprawling wide shot as the “Well of Jehosophat” in the studios’ Roman epic. The filmmakers decided to use the Los Angeles Theatre. It can be seen as the Detroit police station in 635 Mateo St. at the Southwestern Bag Co.; Credit: Jared CowanThe cathedral of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles; Credit: Jared Cowan In the first scene of the film, we quickly learn that one of the only sanctuaries Eddie Mannix has from his hectic days at the studio is the confessional at church.

lot. Four-time Oscar (R)-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, True Grit, Fargo) write and direct Hail, Caesar!, an all-star comedy set … “The way [Fred Harvey] was situated with the booths that are built in there, it just didn’t quite work. While the exterior design certainly stands out in the neighborhood, it’s the interior that may be more familiar to movie fans. Whitley Terrace was perfect for that, with the view of Hollywood in the background,” says Panzarella. The Harvey Apartments in Hollywood; Credit: Jared CowanThe lobby of the Los Angeles Theatre; Credit: Jared Cowan “We looked at every single theater on Broadway,” says Panzarella when discussing the movie palace premiering Capitol’s new Western picture starring Hobie Doyle.

“When Jess [Gonchor, the production designer] and I went to scout Union Station, we went to look at the Fred Harvey restaurant for the nightclub [which was not used in the film]. One of the opening scenes finds Mannix at night in the rain, pulling up to a quaint Spanish-style house off Silver Lake Boulevard. The resulting scene, in which both characters are outside Carlotta’s house, is actually comprised of each actor delivering his lines from two completely different locations.