Maps of Movies

Shazam! (2019)

Where Shazam! says it takes place, and where it was really shot.

The Philadelphia of Shazam! is mostly Toronto, and the Rock of Eternity is a soundstage.

Scenes and places

The Rock of Eternity (2019)

In 1974 a boy named Thaddeus Sivana is pulled out of a snowbound car and into a mystic temple. The wizard Shazam tests whether he is pure of heart, and his answer sets the whole story in motion.

Set in Rock of Eternity — A mystic temple in another dimension, home of the ancient wizard Shazam.

A temple carved inside a mountain, in another dimension. It appears again when Billy is chosen as champion.

Filmed at Pinewood Toronto Studios (Port Lands, Toronto, Canada) — The film's main production base; the temple is a studio set, not a place on Earth. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The police locked in the store (2019)

Fourteen-year-old Billy Batson keeps running away from foster homes to find the mother he lost at a carnival. He locks police officers in a store to use their computer, and still comes up empty.

Set in A store in Fawcett City, Philadelphia — The film's Philadelphia; Fawcett City is the in-story name.

Set in Philadelphia, shot mostly in Toronto and Hamilton.

The Vásquez group home (2019)

A social worker places Billy with Víctor and Rosa Vásquez and five other foster children. Billy keeps his distance, while Freddy, the superhero fan down the hall, sizes him up.

Set in The Vásquez group home, Philadelphia — A foster home run by Víctor and Rosa Vásquez.

A house shared by six foster kids and two former foster kids turned parents.

Billy defends Freddy at school (2019)

Billy steps in when bullies go after Freddy, then runs from them and is pulled out of a subway car into another world. When he says one word, he comes back as an adult superhero.

Set in Billy and Freddy's school, Philadelphia — The high school where Billy first sticks up for Freddy.

An ordinary high school, which becomes Billy's hideout once he finds his powers.

Filmed at Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute (Danforth, Toronto, Canada) — A location blog names this Toronto school as the school exterior; Wikidata gives the coordinates. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Testing the powers (2019)

Freddy helps Billy find out what his adult body can do: strength, speed, lightning. The two boys treat it as a game, which is the problem.

Set in An industrial building in Philadelphia — A big empty industrial space where the boys try the powers out.

A disused power station on Toronto's Port Lands, long a favorite film location.

Filmed at Hearn Generating Station (Port Lands, Toronto, Canada) — The disused power station is one of the public locations the Wikipedia article lists as a film location; a blog also names it. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The bus (2019)

Billy accidentally sends a bus full of people out of control, then catches it. Freddy tells him it was his fault, and the two fall out.

Set in A street in Philadelphia — A busy road where a bus gets out of control.

The Gardiner Expressway overpass and Fort York lie side by side in downtown Toronto.

Filmed at Fort York and The Bentway, Toronto (Fort York, Toronto, Canada) — Fort York is named in Wikipedia's filming section; a blog places the bus scene under the Gardiner overpass at the Bentway nearby. The link to this scene is a guess. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Outside the museum (2019)

Late in the film the story returns to the Philadelphia that the film is set in. The sources give no single scene here, only that museum-set scenes were shot on site.

Set in Philadelphia — The real Philadelphia: skyline and museum scenes.

An art museum at the end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, famous for its front steps.

Filmed at Philadelphia Museum of Art (Fairmount, Philadelphia, United States) — Scenes set at the museum were filmed on location in December 2018. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Filmed at Woodbine Centre, Etobicoke, Toronto (Etobicoke, Toronto, Canada) — Mall scene (not matched to the plot) Google Maps · Apple Maps

Characters

• Billy Batson — A 14-year-old foster kid who keeps running away to look for his birth mother.
• Freddy Freeman — A superhero-obsessed foster brother who becomes Billy's guide.
• Thaddeus Sivana — A man who was judged unworthy as a boy and has hunted the Rock of Eternity ever since.