The Sopranos will film the final scene of the series in Bloomfield after all
I guess there is nothing like a whole lot of negative publicity to get a town to change its mind… that and the fact they never legally had the power to deny The Sopranos from filming their final scene in the city after all.
Township attorney Brian Aloia has decided, however, that the town clerk is required to issue a filming permit and the council doesn’t have a say unless the permit requires a waiver. A waiver wasn’t needed for “The Sopranos” shoot because producers would be filming in a commercial area instead of a residential one after 8 p.m., he said.
HBO was to shoot the scene at an ice cream shop in Bloomfield. The town borders Newark, where fictional mob boss Tony Soprano grew up.
Aloia said the clerk must issue a permit after determining that a shoot fulfills certain legal requirements, such as having adequate insurance.
“She must look at the application in an objective manner,” he said. “She cannot consider, for instance, what’s being filmed or in this case if she likes the show or doesn’t like the show.”
Will be nice for the owners of Holsten’s Brookdale Confectionary, who were more than a little upset about the city’s actions, to get their place in the Soprano’s history. I bet the council had no idea all the negative publicity their little stunt would generate!
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