Our custom line of purses, DākōpäZH, and jewelry has made it into the big screen! The movie just finished tapping here in sunny Florida and we are so excited. Century Jewelers is featured in “The Plus One” being shot in Clearwater Beach. It stars Ashanti and Cedric the Entertainer. It’s a wedding themed romantic comedy where Ashanti plays the bride, and Cedric the Entertainer plays her dad.
Executive producer David Yates said the Pinellas film incentive program was the reason he decided to shoot two movies, with some big name actors, simultaneously over the past couple of weeks in the county.
“They incentivized us to do these films because they show off the area,” said Yates. “They recognize, ‘Hey, this drives tourism.’ These are postcard movies for our area and they play forever.”
“It’s a straightforward comedy. Kind of a nod back to the late 90s, early 2000s comedies, where you have people doing crazy things,” said actor Austin Highsmith Garces. “We are having an absolute blast. I play one of the bridesmaids in that movie.”
Garces first met Yates while starring in the “Dolphin Tale” movies. Yates was the CEO of the Clearwater Marine Aquarium at the time and left in 2020, after 14 years. Garces said she polished the “Pet Detective” script and wrote “The Plus One,” which she’s also producing and pushed to have the movies made in Pinellas County.
Read the entire article from Bay News 9 here Watch out for when the movies are on the big screen and if you want to get the purse just stop in our store! 6801 Gulfport Blvd, South Pasadena FL.
