Host of “America's Got Talent” Nick Cannon films at the end of the Santa Monica Pier on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Cannon was being filmed from a helicopter above the pier. 

Actors Rob Lowe, 46, and Shane Roney, 6, film a scene for an independent movie entitled "I Melt With You" at the Santa Monica Pier on Friday, September 3, 2010. The movie is a  thriller about middle-aged guys dealing with their problems. Lowe plays a doctor struggling with deep personal loss and a growing drug addiction.

An Italian cast films a scene for the romantic comedy "Christmas in Beverly Hills"  at Santa Monica Beach on Tuesday, October 6, 2009.  "Christmas in Beverly Hills"  is the latest in a series of holiday movies produced for the Italian market by Luigi De Laurentiis which will be  released in Italy in December 2009.

(TOP) Sara Manzanares, 21 (left) Taylor Lyon, 18, listen with free headphones to sound-clips at the Venice Board Walk on Friday, January 16, 2008, during a HBO marketing promotion for the TV Show "Big Love" now in its third season. Big Love is a drama about a Mormon fundamentalist family in Utah that practices polygamy and centres around a polygamist (Bill Paxton) and his relationship with the three wives, all whom he is married to. Big Love stars Bill Paxton, Chloë Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Harry Dean Stanton, and Amanda Seyfried. It premiered in the United States on March 12, 2006 The show was cocreated by Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, who also serve as executive producers.

Make-up artist, Christian Waltze gives a touchup to actor John Ennis as he portrays a Walrus, during a filming of Fuel TV's "Stupidface" at the Santa Monica Boardwalk on Thursday, November 6, 2008. “Stupidface” is a fast-paced, action-packed, comedy and FUEL TV’s answer to the late-night TV wasteland of infomercials and reruns. Featuring sketch comedy, animation, and hidden-camera hi-jinx, “Stupidface” segments are produced by independent, underground comedy teams, several of whom have found online fame via YouTube.com. “Stupidface” takes late-night comedy to a whole new level—with hilarious results. all brought to you by the producers of American Misfits. There’s no way you’ll be able to wipe that smile off your Stupidface.

(ABOVE) Actress, singer, and songwriter Miley Cyrus, AKA Hannah Montana, is interviewed at the Santa Monica Pier on Wednesday, July 19, 2008, while filming an episode for Disney Channel's hit television series. (TOP)  A Hannah Montana double stands in for a scene.  Hannah Montana is an Emmy Award-nominated American television series, which debuted on March 24, 2006, on Disney Channel. The series focuses on a girl who lives a double life as an average teenage school girl named Miley Stewart (played by Miley Cyrus) by day and a famous pop singer named Hannah Montana by night. Concealing her real identity from the public, other than her close friends and family.

Actress Emily Osment, 16, who plays Lilly Truscotton  on Disney Channel's hit television series, 'Hannah Montana,' signs autographs, takes photos with her fans and poses for a portrait at the Santa Monica Pier  while filming an episode  on Tuesday, July 15, 2008.