{"id":2572,"date":"2015-02-10T16:02:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T16:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2015-02-10T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T16:02:12","slug":"writerdirector-marc-lawrence-81-calls-his-new-film-a-love-letter-to-binghamton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2015\/02\/10\/writerdirector-marc-lawrence-81-calls-his-new-film-a-love-letter-to-binghamton\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer\/Director Marc Lawrence \u201981 calls his new film a \u201clove letter to Binghamton\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2573\" style=\"width: 496px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2015\/02\/20150208_rewrite001_jwc_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2573 \" alt=\"Marc Lawrence '81, left, and Hugh Grant answer questions from the audience following a special screening of the movie &quot;The Rewrite.&quot; Photo by Jonathan Cohen.\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2015\/02\/20150208_rewrite001_jwc_1.jpg\" width=\"496\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marc Lawrence &#8217;81, left, and Hugh Grant answer questions from the audience following a special screening of the movie &#8220;The Rewrite.&#8221;<br \/>Photo by Jonathan Cohen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Binghamton pride was out in force Sunday afternoon as 1,200 people viewed a special screening of \u201cThe Rewrite,\u201d starring Hugh Grant and what writer\/director Marc Lawrence \u201981 calls his \u201clove letter to Binghamton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you were to ask anyone in the audience, you\u2019d hear that the movie is a hit and Lawrence and Grant are a match made in heaven, but Binghamton was the star of the film. That became apparent every time a scene from the campus filled the screen and applause filled the Osterhout Concert Theater.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to the pair\u2019s self-deprecating responses to audience questions following the screening gave a clear message that Lawrence and Grant are close friends who work well together \u2013 and like to laugh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How was this movie different than the other three you\u2019ve done together?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lawrence:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cWe had no money. There are film hubs around the country, and Binghamton is not one of them, so if we were to shoot up here we would have to bring the entire crew \u2013 150 people for about six weeks and that costs more than shooting the film around New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grant:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s sad we couldn\u2019t have filmed more of it here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/inside\/index.php\/inside\/story\/10724\/a-love-letter-to-binghamton\/\">Read more here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Binghamton pride was out in force Sunday afternoon as 1,200 people viewed a special screening of \u201cThe Rewrite,\u201d starring Hugh Grant and what writer\/director Marc Lawrence \u201981 calls his \u201clove letter to Binghamton.\u201d If you were to ask anyone in the audience, you\u2019d hear that the movie is a hit and Lawrence and Grant are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-alumni","7":"category-binghamton-university-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}