{"id":61865,"date":"2014-02-10T10:51:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T08:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61865"},"modified":"2014-02-10T10:59:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T08:59:40","slug":"avengers-2-joburg-filming-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61865-avengers-2-joburg-filming-postponed","title":{"rendered":"Avengers 2 Joburg filming postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Road closures in the Johannesburg CBD will come to effect on Tuesday after the filming company of the sequel to the superhero movie &#8220;The Avengers&#8221; postponed filming, metro police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The filming company informed us they have cancelled filming on Monday,&#8221; spokesman Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said.<\/p>\n<p>Albetina Sisulu street (previously Market) would no longer be blocked off between Harrison and Rissik streets from 7am until 7pm as said earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Minnaar said filming in the street would begin on Tuesday at 6pm until Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Other streets affected from February 14 to 23 would be President street between Rissik and Eloff streets and Joubert street between Harrison and Rissik streets, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of Commissioner, Sauer, and Albetina Sisulu streets would also be closed.<\/p>\n<p>Motorist were urged to use Jeppe, Bree, Pritchard, Marshall, and Anderson streets as alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Minnaar said Kingsley Sithole road and Basil Zuma street in Orlando East would be closed to traffic on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The public is requested to exercise patience and use alternative roads in the meantime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sequel, titled &#8220;Avengers: Age of Ultron&#8221;, will feature well-known actors Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, and Chris Hemsworth as popular superheroes.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61862-developer-earns-r550000-per-day-game-ruined-his-life.html\">Developer earns R550,000 per day, game ruined his life<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61759-survival-rpg-to-use-virtual-recreation-of-earth.html\">Survival RPG to use virtual recreation of Earth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61854-drakengard-3-announced-and-dated.html\">Drakengard 3 announced and dated<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road closures in the Joburg CBD will come to effect on Tuesday says the company filming the sequel to &#8220;The Avengers&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":61866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4074,21],"class_list":["post-61865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-avengers","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}