Filming has begun on a biopic of producer and Virginia native Pharrell Williams, with a shoot happening at Henrico’s Seven Gables Apartments recently. The film, a musical featuring Halle Bailey and Oscar winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph, is reportedly set in the summer of 1977 in Virginia Beach. The producers estimate they will spend around $42 million in the state while they’re here.

We welcome the crew, actors and actresses who are making this happen in our area. And Pharrell, if you’re looking for a place to put “something” in our water, you should know that a nice, 7,500- seat amphitheater is being constructed along the James River.