The Invasion

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Nicole Kidman's new film, The Visiting, concerns an alien invasion in the Baltimore-Washington area, and perhaps the rest of the world (like we care about anyone else!). In the course of the movie, residents start behaving a little strangely, no doubt because - if this Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake resembles its predecessors - they have been replaced by cunning extraterrestrial clones.

On The Set

Daniel Craig, a blond Bond?

Now we know we're hitting the big time: James Bond has been seen on the streets of Baltimore and will be stationed here for at least another few weeks.

Sightings of 'Visiting' Kidman are rare

Word that Nicole Kidman was in the house swept through the 13 floors of the B&O Railroad Building yesterday, but actual sightings of the star -- in town to film The Visiting -- were rare.

'Invasion,' downgraded to a 'Visiting,' will hit city

Finally, a movie where Baltimore gets to play Baltimore - and starring Nicole Kidman, no less.

Film Column

Starting tomorrow, 'Invasion' will be casting 3,000 extras

All you frustrated actors, here's your chance for fame and glory ... or at least for the chance to have your face show up briefly in a crowd scene in a major Hollywood film.

More lights, camera, action in Md.

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker spotted in Annapolis. Actor Rutger Hauer lying in a coffin on Liberty Road. A street in North Baltimore transformed in mid-August into a colorful autumn landscape.

A Nicole Kidman itinerary, just in case

In terms of sheer movie queen glam, the likes of Nicole Kidman haven't been seen in Charm City in decades. So it's all the more notable that the statuesque Australian beauty will star in Invasion, which is scheduled to shoot here this fall.

Film crews set to invade Baltimore

We do D.C. well," says Jack Gerbes, director of the Maryland Film Office, and that's why Baltimore will host Nicole Kidman when she heads the cast of the Warner Bros. sci-fi thriller Invasion this fall. The star, who won an Oscar for portraying a suicidal writer in The Hours (2002), plays a Washington psychiatrist who uncovers the unearthly secret to a behavior-altering epidemic - and must fight to protect her son, who she thinks may be the crucial person standing between Earth and an extraterrestrial invasion.

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