When was coming to america filmed

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Coming to America South 5th Street and Hooper Street, Brooklyn. Nine-acre waterfront park located between the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge. Akeem, hoping to choose his own bride, takes a day break from the suffocating royal indulgence to visit New York , which is where most of the film is set. When the question of where prince is going to find a potential bride in New York arises, the obvious answer is Queens. As you can see, they arrive at the junction of South 5th Street and Hooper Street , at the time a fairly unprepossessing area, though not in Queens at all but Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The whole block has been replaced by a huge apartment complex. When her father John Amos , without even consulting her, announces her engagement to Darryl, Lisa slopes off with Akeem to take a walk. Landis indulges a little in-joke here as the two down-and-outs to whom Akeem gives money turn out to be Randolph and Mortimer Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche , the wealthy businessmen from Trading Places.

Akeem and Lisa end up in a smart riverside restaurant where, after a slow dance, they realise they have a serious connection. Mowat deserves credit for enhancing Ross real-life rooms. Elsewhere, Sage built the ballroom and throne room on external soundstages, but the architecture of the mansion served as the basis for the design. The Ross mansion had a white interior with a gold ceiling trim throughout, so when it came to those external sets, Sage accented and embellished gold-leafing throughout.

He relied on visual effects to enhance the silhouette of the film. During one sequence, a campanile bell rings, and while the actual set was small, Brewer and Sage inserted the shot into a swooping vista of the Zamundan palace and residence. He sought out all the information on the original set created by Richard Macdonald.