Armageddon (1998)

Armageddon (1998)

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Country: USA
Language: English, Russian, Indonesian
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: Michael Bay
Screenplay: Jonathan Hensleigh, J. J. Abrams, Robert Roy Pool
Stars: Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Owen Wilson, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, William Fichtner, Michael Clarke Duncan, Keith David, Steve Buscemi
Filming dates: 27 August 1997 – 29 January 1998
Premiere: 30 June 1998

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Filming locations:

China

• (establishing shots)
• Shanghai (establishing shots)

France

• (establishing shots)
• Paris
  • Saint Michel, Paris 5 (establishing shots)
• Dinan, Côtes-d’Armor
• Ille-et-Vilaine
  • Saint-Coulomb
• Manche
  • Baie du Mont Saint Michel

India

• (establishing shots)
• Delhi
  • Red Fort
• Uttar Pradesh (establishing shots)
  • Agra (establishing shots)
    • Taj Mahal (establishing shots)

Mexico

• Gulf of Mexico (oil rig)

Turkey

• (establishing shots)
• Istanbul (establishing shots)
  • Blue Mosque (establishing shots)
  • Ortaköy (establishing shots)

United States of America

• California
  • Los Angeles
    • Main Street, Downtown (New York street scenes)
    • 4th Street, Downtown  (New York street scenes)
    • Barclay Hotel – 103 W. 4th Street, Downtown (53rd Street Station, New York)
    • Los Angeles Theatre – 615 S. Broadway, Downtown (lavish strip club)
    • Shrine Auditorium – 665 W. Jefferson Boulevard (exterior; FBI cars pull up outside a New Orleans bar where Rockhound is hanging out)
    • St. Brendan’s Catholic Church – 310 S. Van Ness Avenue, Hancock Park
  • Burbank
    • Walt Disney Studios, 500 South Buena Vista Street (studio, asteroid set)
  • Carson
    • Fletcher Oil Refinery – 24721 Main Street
  • Culver City
    • Culver Studios – 9336 W. Washington Blvd.
  • Pasadena
  • Edwards Air Force Base
  • Torrance
    • Sunrider International 1625 Abalone Ave. (NASA scene)
• District of Columbia
  • Washington (establishing shots)
• Florida
  • Cape Canaveral
  • Merritt Island
  • Titusville
    • Kennedy Space Center
      • Launch Complex 34 (Apollo 1 Memorial)
      • Launch Complex 39A
• New Mexico
  • Socorro
  • Very Large Array (second unit)
• New York
  • New York City (establishing shots)
    • Flatiron Building – 175 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan (establishing shots)
    • Queensboro Bridge, Manhattan (establishing shots)
    • Grand Central Station, Manhattan (establishing shots)
• South Dakota
  • Badlands National Park (asteroid surface)
  • Interior
• Texas
  • Houston
    • Johnson Space Center – 2101 NASA Rd. (Johnson Space Center, Neutral Buoyancy Lab, Historical Apollo era Flight Control Room)
    • Ellington Air Force Base (T-38 jet training scenes)
  • Aubrey (establishing shots)
  • Denton County
    • Denton (establishing shots)
  • Pilot Point (establishing shots)
  • Sanger (street scenes)

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Istanbul, Turkey

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Armageddon (1998) trailer on IMDb

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