St. Pete Beach is getting the full Hollywood treatment this week, as Oscar‑winning director Tom McCarthy turns the iconic Don CeSar into a 1980s hotel for his new feature, currently titled The Statement. Crews are scattered along Gulf Boulevard wrangling wardrobe racks, period cars and background actors, and local casting calls are already buzzing through the community.
Project And Cast
The film adapts Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth, focusing on a pivotal 1980 conference where scientists, activists and policymakers tried to hammer out early consensus on the emerging climate crisis. Sony Pictures Classics is backing the project, with an ensemble that includes Paul Rudd, Evan Peters, Amy Ryan, Paul Giamatti, John Turturro, Tatiana Maslany…..