The Biggest Box Office Hits Filmed in Each State

Pennsylvania: Rocky

What movie is more iconically relative to a city than Rocky? With the Philadelphia Museum of Art representing the film with its own statue of Rocky out front, this state’s got an easy choice.

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The More You Know

  • Orson Welles directed much of Citizen Kane from a wheelchair, after injuring himself on set.
  • Straight Outta Compton movie was never played in Compton because the city has no movie theaters.
  • Gone With the Wind’s fire scene is old sets being burned.
  • George Lucas wanted to make a Flash Gordon movie but could not obtain the rights so instead, he created Star Wars.
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