Filming for Sylvester Stallone’s film, “Alarum,” continued this past week and weekend in Oxford.
Scenes included a person falling from a building, explosions, a sign in Polish over a local bar, a phalanx of Black SUVs and, on Feb. 28, a confirmed sighting of Sylvester Stallone.
“Alarum” is expected to continue filming this weekend on March 1 and 2 in the interior of Lee & Rosemary Innovation College on Elm Street.
The crew has been in the area since at least early last week, filming scenes at Hueston Woods.
Around 2 p.m. on Feb. 27, the Oxford Police Department blocked off streets near LCNB Bank, Left Field Tavern and O’ Pub with yellow tape. At 4:00 p.m., trailers, film trucks carrying motorbikes, as well as four Jeep Wranglers arrived at the scene.
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Signs in Polish were put up by O’Pub and in the windows of Left Field Tavern. A Polish flag flew on a flagpole outside Blue Mango.
There was a heavy police presence on site as cast and crew began to file in. Bystanders recorded videos of Scott Eastwood and Sylvester Stallone on SnapChat and other social media platforms.
“Once they start filming nobody can come in and we can’t do any business, so we are losing business potentially because they have to go somewhere else when they need a vape,” said Joe Huntington, manager at Blue Mango. “We signed off on this, everybody on the block signed off on this and gave [the film crew] consent to do this and they’re compensating us for it.”
Around 8 p.m., smoke machines were billowing fog over Oxford Park. Onlookers watched throughout the afternoon and evening as scenes were filmed with what looked to be military personnel holding prop guns.
Between 11 p.m. and 12 a.m. the crew set off multiple explosions near the entrance of O’Pub.
From 4 p.m. Feb. 24 to 5 a.m Feb 25, a crew was filming in a house at 103 W. Walnut St.
A posted notice read: “The scenes being filmed involve stunts, so there will be loud noises and bright lights.”
The notice also mentioned that neighbors adjacent to the house could be provided with blackout shades from the crew to cover windows if lighting became a disruption.
Miami University senior Jordan Dubyak was one of many who observed the filming on Walnut Street this past Saturday.
“We saw some of the security and maybe some extras inside the house doing stuff, but the main thing that they were filming was a window scene,” she said.
Dubyak was also able to speak with some of the members of the crew.
“They told me that they were getting ready for a scene for someone to fall out of a window,” she said.
She said she was told that Scott Eastwood has been in the Oxford area since early last week.
That night, the producers of the film were catered by local Oxford establishment, Mimian. A restaurant employee posted a picture of himself with the film director Micheal Polish.
“Alarum” received $5.9 million in tax credits for filming in Ohio, according to a press release from The Ohio Department of Development.
