This is what happens when your city becomes a mini-Hollywood hub.

Earlier this week, a girl posted on boringpittsburgh.com that Taylor Lautner would be shooting close to Federal Street on the North Side. But another poster corrected her -- the movie filming near the old Garden Theater is Katherine Heigl's "One for the Money" and not "Abduction."

So, do not lug the "Twilight" posters or copies of GQ with cover boy Lautner to the North Side.

Different movie. Way different but with a built-in appeal, audience and crowd of onlookers all its own, thanks to the wildly successful series of Janet Evanovich books about Stephanie Plum.

Ms. Heigl is playing the woman from blue-collar Trenton, N.J., who falls into the bail bonding business because she's jobless, broke, desperate and cousin to the guy who runs the Vincent Plum Bail Bonding Co. Her slice of Jersey includes the Stark Street Gym.

In "One for the Money," Ms. Evanovich writes: "Stark Street started down by the river, just north of the statehouse, and ran in a northeasterly direction. Crammed with small inner-city businesses, bars, crack houses and cheerless three-story row houses, the street stretched close to a mile."

Part of the neighborhood near the old Garden Theater has been turned into Stark Street, including the exterior location for the gym where Plum goes seeking information and finds a very hostile heavyweight boxer. To conceal the park on the opposite street, a makeshift wall covered with graffiti and posters has been erected.

Cries of "Lock up traffic" yesterday echoed down North Avenue, and the occasional real-life ambulance siren interrupted proceedings. The production is keeping a fire lane open, although one ambulance swung around the location on the way to nearby Allegheny General Hospital.

The Crazy Mocha coffee shop on East North Avenue assures patrons that it's open for business during filming, even if it appears to have been transformed into a tobacco outlet -- at least on one side. Across Federal Street, there's Trenton Tattoo, a hoagie shop and an adult book-video store plus a couple of Trenton police cars, all for the movie.

Yesterday, a couple of familiar faces in unfamiliar hair styles and colors and fashions were stationed in front of the adult store and tattoo parlor. They belonged to Ms. Heigl, clad in a green top and jeans with long dark hair hanging loose, and Sherri Shepherd and Ryan Michelle Bathe, who play hookers Lula and Jackie.

Stephanie was questioning the pair about a possible witness to a shooting who's gone missing. Ms. Shepherd, in a short wig, was closer to Ms. Evanovich's description of the women's wear of stretchy tank tops and tight-fitting knit shorts while Ms. Bathe's slender form was balanced on high heels in the 86-degree heat. "Bye bye," Ms. Shepherd called out, ending the encounter as the trio drifted toward some bottles of water and a tent providing cover for the filmmakers.

"One for the Money," being directed by Julie Anne Robinson, also plans to shoot in Braddock, Shadyside and Ambridge through early September. Its cast includes Jason O'Mara, Daniel Sunjata and John Leguizamo with a tentative release date of summer 2011.

"Rappin'," the 1985 movie shot in Pittsburgh and starring Mario Van Peebles, will be shown at 7 p.m. Monday at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in East Liberty.

It's part of a Celebrate East Liberty Summer Series featuring retro movies and prices, just $2 for admission. Mr. Van Peebles plays a rapper and former convict trying to fight local hoodlums and big-time developers. The cast includes Eriq La Salle and, in a small role, Ice-T.

Go to www.Kelly-Strayhorn.org for directions and other information.

Pittsburgh Filmmakers continues its "Summer Vacation Movies" series this weekend with "Kiss Me Deadly," a hard-boiled detective story based on Mickey Spillane's pulp novel. It will screen at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Regent Square Theater.

The series showcases movies that offer a vacation from reality, measured in minutes. The picks are from staffers of Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, who will introduce their selections.

Also booked: Aug. 1, "Oklahoma!," the musical that launched Shirley Jones' Hollywood career; Aug. 8, "Harvey," the 1950 comedy-fantasy starring an Oscar-nominated Jimmy Stewart as the inebriated Elwood P. Dowd, who encounters a 6-foot invisible white rabbit; Aug. 15, "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension," a 1980s cult comedy; Aug. 22, "Repulsion," Roman Polanski's first English-language film, a psychological thriller featuring a young Catherine Deneuve; and Aug. 29, "Riot on Sunset Strip," an ultra-low budget look at 1960s Hollywood clubs, long-gone teen scenes and cops clashing with kids.

Daniel Radcliffe will star in "The Woman in Black," an adaptation of Susan Hill's best-selling novel. James Watkins ("Eden Lake") and Jane Goldman ("Kick-Ass") will adapt the ghost story, already turned into a long-running stage play.

The "Harry Potter" star will play a young lawyer ordered to travel to a remote corner of the United Kingdom to sort out a recently deceased client's papers. As he works alone in an old and isolated house, he begins to uncover its tragic secrets, and his unease grows when he discovers that the local village is held hostage by the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance.

Production is expected to begin this fall.

• Carl Kurlander writes: "So, perhaps there is a lesson here about a man who made a movie about his hometown of Pittsburgh and how much he enjoyed coming home -- and then spent all his time traveling around the country talking about this Pittsburgh comeback story."

But he isn't complaining, given the response to that movie. Mr. Kurlander's "My Tale of Two Cities" will play the Boston Museum of Fine Arts July 29-Aug. 1 plus Aug. 5 and the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, Aug. 7-8. See www.mytaleoftwocities.com for details.

• "Winter's Bone" has been bumped a week. It now is expected to open Aug. 6 at the Manor Theater in Squirrel Hill and Destinta in Chartiers Valley Shopping Center right outside Bridgeville.

• George Clooney will be recognized for his humanitarian efforts at the Emmy Awards. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will present the 49-year-old actor with its Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the ceremony next month, the Associated Press reports.

He is being honored for the Emmy-nominated "Hope for Haiti" along with his efforts to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina and heighten awareness about genocide in Darfur.

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