Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

Due to its location near Hollywood, the Coliseum has been used in hundreds of commercials, TV program and films over the years. Some examples:

Films

• 1976: The films Gus and Two-Minute Warning were set at the Coliseum.
• 1978: In the film Heaven Can Wait, the Los Angeles Rams use the Coliseum as their home ground; it is also used to play the Super Bowl
• 1979: The football scenes of North Dallas Forty were shot in the Coliseum. The scenes were filmed at night, with very low light, both for effect and to downplay the fact that the stands were empty.
• 1991: The finale of the action film The Last Boy Scout was set in the Coliseum.
• 1994: In the film D2: The Mighty Ducks, Team USA holds a practice at the Coliseum after an embarrassing loss to Team Iceland in the Junior Goodwill Games.
• 1996: The basketball scene in the film Escape from L.A. was set in the Coliseum.
• 1996: A scene in Jerry Maguire taking place after a football game is shot in the outdoor concourse of the stadium
• 1997: The final scene of the film Money Talks was shot in the Coliseum
• 2002: In the film S1m0ne virtual actress and singer Simone performs a concert and passes it around the world.
• 2006: A computer-generated version of the stadium is used in the Pixar movie Cars as the setting for the final "Piston Cup" race

Television

• 1972: The Coliseum was used in the Columbo episode "The Most Crucial Game"
• 1972: The Coliseum was used in the Banacek episode "Let's Hear It for a Living Legend"
• 1973: The Coliseum was the setting for an extended pursuit of a former football star in the Adam-12 episode "Southwest Division"
• late 1970s: The original Charlie's Angels TV series shot three episodes at the Coliseum.
• 1976: The Coliseum was seen in the first episode of the sixth season of Emergency!
• 1978: Hosting the fictional football team, the Los Angeles Cougars, the Coliseum was the setting for the episode "Killer Instinct" of the second season of The Incredible Hulk
• 1980: An episode of Quincy, M.E. from March used the stadium as the centre of a botulism plot. It was purported to be hosting the 1980 "World cup soccer championships"
• 2001: The third episode of Alias used the Coliseum as a Berlin location
• 2003: The Coliseum was used in the filming of the last episode of the second season of the television show 24.
• 2005: In the fourth season of America's Next Top Model, the season's remaining contestants where to taught the runway walk
• 2006: The opening credits for BET's television series The Game was filmed in the Coliseum
• 2008: The Coliseum served as the starting line for the 13th installment of CBS's The Amazing Race

Animated

• 1986: Anime Film Captain Tsubasa: Sekai Daikessen! Jr. World Cup! Japan's team play the World Cup Soccer in the United States faces the hosts and South America combined Europeans defeated by a landslide
• 2005: In The Simpsons in the episode 343 of season 16, Homer looks at the halftime show of Super Bowl, the first Super Bowl is one person playing a Bombardon

Commercials

• 2006: A computer-generated version of the Coliseum was used for Budweiser beer TV commercials during the 2006 FIFA World Cup and then the 2006 NFL playoffs, the only change being that football players were on the field in the NFL playoffs version, whereas soccer players were on the field in the World Cup version. The stadium was shown filled to capacity, with each spectator participating in a classic card stunt. The imagery turned out to be a gigantic beer bottle on one sideline, pouring into a gigantic beer mug on the other sideline, whose contents were then shown being drained by an invisible consumer.

Video games

• 2009: In Midnight Club: Los Angeles the Coliseum appears in South Central LA in the complete edition of the game.
• 2011: In the video game Duke Nukem Forever, it is the first level where the player must battle a Cycloid Emperor
• 2011: In DiRT 3 there are rallycross races around and in the Coliseum.