Seeing is believing: WSJ tightens focus on Detroit movie lights, camera, action

Star power is seemingly all over town, all the time. Downtown, Midtown, Hamtramck, Highland Park and other neighborhoods have been turned into sets for movies and television shows starring or directed by Clint Eastwood, Drew Barrymore, David Byrne, Michael Imperioli, Val Kilmer, Richard Gere and -- the list goes on and on and on.

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Signs of activity are everywhere. Hip-looking film-school grads on bicycles run errands in an empty warehouse that once served as a Chrysler distribution center and is now a cavernous 166,000-square-foot production studio for "Detroit 1-8-7." Sets for the show, premiering on ABC Sept. 21, include a city morgue and a homicide unit with cluttered police desks and corkboards covered with mug shots.

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