New York City Film Trivia Facts

• “Saturday Night Live” has been broadcast from New York City since 1975. The show, which is shot at Studio 8H in NBC Studios, is the longest-running late night show in television history.
• On August 20, 2004, Regis Philbin broke the record for logging the most hours on U.S. television of any person in history.
• In 2002, three of the Top Ten US box office champions came from New York: Spider-Man, Men in Black II, and Ice Age. The total domestic box office for these three films was $770.5 million.
• The first projected motion pictures ever seen in the United States were shown on April 23rd, 1906 at Koster and Bial's vaudeville house, on the site of today's Macy's department store. Thomas Edison helped run the projector.
• In 1920, Paramount Pictures opened its East Coast studio in Astoria, Queens. Known as the "big house," the 14-acre complex contained one of the largest stages ever built, a fifty seat screening room, and a publicity department equipped to handle 10,000 stills a day. Used by the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II, it was refurbished in the 1970s and 80s, and is known today as Kaufman Astoria Studios.
• NBC's “Law & Order” is the longest running drama series on primetime television. The series is entirely in New York.
• The Big Apple is a hit for Bollywood. The Bollywood film “Kal Ho Naa Ho” was shot in New York City in 2003, and has became one of the top-grossing Indian film of all time.

Trivia facts from: NYC.gov