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Detroit

city in and county seat of Wayne County, and largest city in State of Michigan, United States

United States · 42.3317, -83.0475

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Detroit is recorded as a filming location for 21 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level: somewhere in Detroit, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 52 more. 6 video games are also set here.

1 production was filmed at 15 places inside Detroit rather than at Detroit itself: listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“The crew spent over $10 million while shooting the film in Detroit.”
Gran Torino (2008) · Wikipedia

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Detroit
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Movies and TV series filmed in Detroit

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Detroit as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list, each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

And 18 more, per Wikipedia:

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Detroit

1 production shot at 15 places inside Detroit, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Detroit itself.

Set here

Video games that take place here. A game is filmed nowhere, so this is where the story is set rather than where a camera stood: a different claim from everything above, and kept under its own heading for that reason. The rows marked per its source work are placed by the book they adapt rather than by a statement of their own.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Detroit, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement: two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.

And 2 more, per Wikipedia:

Drawn from this place

Video games whose Japanese Wikipedia article names Detroit as a real place their setting was modelled on. Nothing was filmed here and no story happens here: somebody drew it from here. That is the weakest claim this atlas makes about a place, which is why it sits under its own heading, and each production’s page links the article the claim came from.

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Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Detroit?

92 productions are recorded as filmed in Detroit, 1 of them at places inside it, including Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Gran Torino (2008) and Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014). 70 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Detroit?

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), covered by 65 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Detroit?

Detroit is in the United States. Its coordinates are 42.3317, -83.0475.

What other filming locations are near Detroit?

Philip A. Hart Plaza (under 1 km), Detroit International Riverfront (under 1 km), Michigan Building (under 1 km), Huntington Place (under 1 km) and 2 more, all within 40 km and listed on this page with photographs.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by TheWxResearcher, CC0.