Tagline: Safety never takes a holiday.
In Columbia Pictures’ comedy “Paul Blart: Mall Cop”, Kevin James stars as the title character, a single, suburban dad, trying to make ends meet as a security officer at a New Jersey mall. Though no one else takes his job seriously, Paul considers himself on the front lines of safety. When a heist shuts down the megaplex, Jersey’s most formidable mall cop will have to become a real cop to save the day.
The film began shooting in late February 2008 in Boston.] Principal shooting took place at the Burlington Mall in Burlington, Massachusetts after being denied a permit from Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, New Jersey.
From late February until mid-April, the mall and its stores were decorated with Christmas decorations, and there was a large prop ball-pit in the main foyer of the mall near the Sears branch, and a Santa’s Village at the opposite end near the Macy’s branch in the same place that the mall usually puts its own Santa’s Village. Interior filming took place mostly at night.
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Starring: Kevin James, Jayma Mays, Shirley Knight, Raini Rodriguez, Stephen Rannazzisi, Adam Ferrara
Directed by: Steve Carr
Screenplay by: Kevin James, Nick Bakay, Steve Pink
Release Date: January 16, 2009
MPAA Rating: PG for some violence, mild crude and suggestive humor, and language.
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $146,336,178 (81.1%)
Foreign: $34,109,235 (18.9%)
Total: $180,445,413 (Worldwide)