Welcome to the silver screen Bay News 9!

For the second time Alcon Entertainment has called on Bay News 9 to tell the story of Winter and now Hope at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium!

The movie makers released exclusive, never-seen-before video in advance of the movie’s September 12 nationwide release.

And Bay News 9 shines.

The movie scenes show Bay News 9 on televisions in people’s homes, offices and even at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.

And of course – it all germinated in our studios!

We were there when the movies came to Bay News 9!

The movie crews gave the studios a silver screen makeover, installing a brand new green screen.

Then “news anchor” actors sat in front of the new green screen talking about the “news video” projected onto the screen.

While the anchors may have been actors, the news production crew members running everything from the cameras to the TelePrompTer were all bona fide Bay News 9 employees!

And our on-air news and weather people did get their own Hollywood treatment on several different on-location movie sets.

Bay News 9 Morning Anchor Erica Riggins and Bay News 9 Meteorologist Juli Marquez were on movie sets starting before the sun came up. Before they stood for hours as “reporter” extras, hair and make-up specialists gave them the Hollywood treatment.

Juli and Erica appear during the movie in a scrum of news crews in front of the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.

You can also see Bay News 9 engineer Bob Walker as a still photographer, and Bay News 9 Photographer Jonathan Haas—as a news photographer!

These Bay News 9’ers are inches away from stars Ashley Judd, Austin Stowell and Nathan Gamble, as the trio works their way through the crowd and into the Clearwater Marine Aquarium for a climactic movie scene.

And Jonathan even got his own stunt double for a special animal scene on Clearwater Beach when Rufus the pelican jumps at the camera!

Finally, our Bay News 9 news trucks also make an appearance. Look for our trucks in front of the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, along with our news crews!