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How to bring Hollywood to Philadelphia

Philadelphia is a city that's been used as a backdrop for a number of hugely successful movies. So how does it convince Hollywood directors to choose it as a set location, over any other US city? The woman who brings Hollywood to town is Sharon Pinkenson of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office. At the end of this interview with Fegus Nicoll, she gives us her top five films shot in Philadelphia - see if you can recognise them from their theme tunes.

(Picture: (L-R) Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Johnson and Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures', Warner Bros. Pictures' and New Line Cinema's drama "CREED," a Warner Bros. Pictures release.)

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