The City of Beacon confirmed to A Little Beacon Blog that Tuesday night's filming, which carried into early Wednesday morning, was for the feature film thriller, "One Night Out."

This is an Amazon MGM Studios’ Orion Pictures, according to Deadline. The film stars Aldis Hodge and Wunmi Mosaku with George Tillman Jr. directing. Deadline reports that "Nelson Greaves wrote the script with revisions by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo." It will be available on Prime Video.

In this video, the stopped cars you see are plants. The people standing still are "extras." The people walking are local residents or tourists trying to get to restaurants that remained open during the film shoot, or just trying to get to another block of town. Beacon Police closed the street from Teller Avenue (Yankee Clipper Diner) to East Main Street (by Melzengah), which was announced by the City of Beacon.

In Beacon, moments of movie action occurred in front of The Station Dispensary, The Piggy Bank (formerly The Vault), and Brother’s Trattoria. One little person crossing the street exclaimed: "Why is the street wet!?!" The scene was styled in a "wet down" where the ground was wet. Sometimes a romantic effect used in movie making to signify a rainfall.

Up the block, Carter's Restaurant remained open to people in real life. Guests inside could see the action from their front row tables. "But nothing is happening!" explained the little person. Correct. Often in filming like this, background extras and cars are put into position, and wait. And wait. And then when the director calls "ACTION!" the PAs (Production Assistants) call "ROLLING!" and everyone must be quiet while the actors and picture cars do their things.

The actors and pictures cars may repeat that scene 1-7 times.

Further down Main Street, Chocolate Studio told A Little Beacon Blog that shops were instructed by the production company to keep their lights on for the night shots. It is not confirmed which if any Main Street businesses were compensated by the film production for their cooperation or inconveniences during the film shoot.

This was good news for the east end of Main Street, in that they got exposure. But bad news if regular locals or visiting tourists avoided the area, thinking that the streets were closed. PAs were gracious to passing pedestrians, where some PAs insisted on escorting anyone across the street for safety within the creatively controlled environment.

Business owners and home/apartment residents should know that should they be inconvenienced by a film shoot, they can ask for compensation from the film production company. Especially if any film equipment is set up in their parking lot or establishment. Or if actors "accidentally" walk into their establishment in an unscripted moment captured on film that the production might use. The person to contact is the Location Manager, who can negotiate the rate. Receiving such compensation is not guaranteed.

Until the next film spotting! Send your tips and pics to A Little Beacon Blog. Always ask a person on set which production it is so that we can keep track of who is where when.

This project was joyous to participate in. Read about how Carter’s initiated their free Turkey Meal Giveaway after learning about the SNAP crisis. While people who signed up to receive these meals described this time period one of the roughest in their lives, this small moment of providing them with the foundation for a Thanksgiving Meal meant a lot. This video series covers the pre-planning that Carter’s owner and chef Jon Lombardi undertook for the distribution, the unboxing of what he hunted and gathered, and the bike delivery from the Beacon Bicycle Coalition.

Tuesday was Turkey Distribution Day at Carter’s Restaurant. On Monday, Katie met up with Chef Jon and his Carter’s Crew to unbox the food he purchased for this Thanksgiving Meal. In coordinating this, we learned so many things. Mainly, that many people cannot travel and live with disabilities. People had 2 and 3 jobs and were also caring for aging parents and children (adult children and young children) at home. They were tired. They could not get out, so the bike deliveries were crucial.

We also learned that feeding people is Jon’s love language, yes, but we learned that it’s also in his DNA that he help people by feeding them. Jon is a quiet but generous person. This is the largest project he and ALBB have worked on together. This was an incredible experience. Learning everyone’s stories. We are so glad to have reached you.

Thank you so much to those who donated at the end to help reach people.

In this video, Jon tells us how to cook a 22lb turkey (lots of butter), not to sneak the bird in during the pre-heat, and his genealogy of feeding those in need.

The Carter’s Thanksgiving Meal Distribution was so organically expansive. ALBB readers reached out to see how they could assist. One such reader, Kelly Holiday volunteered herself and the Beacon Bicycle Coalition to deliver meals by bike to those who needed them.

Delivery accounted for roughly half of our signups. People were either disabled, had newborns at home, worked more than one job, or just could not get out. While the forecast called for rain, ALBB had faith in the cyclists (Yvonne Caruthers, Meg, Mark and August) that they enjoyed the ingenuity of securing and protecting the meals from the elements. They offered car driving as backup should it begin pouring. But they made their deliveries before the rain came!

Special thanks also to car driver Sam Lashlee who made deliveries to Poughkeepsie and Beacon just over the I-84 bridge possible.