December 14, 2008 – Wanted, the Universal Pictures action film with scenes shot near Marina City last year, has been released on DVD. Sales charts quoted by The Hollywood Reporter showed the DVD in the #2 spot nationwide when it debuted on December 2, and the Blu-ray disc in the #1 spot. During its first week, it was also the most-rented video.

When it was in theaters, the film earned $341.7 million worldwide over 12 weeks.

Marina City shows up in the film’s opening scene and in a chase scene shot on Wabash Avenue. For the late-night filming on Wabash, the residential towers at Marina City were lit by flood lights from the plaza at 330 North Wabash.

The film stars James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, and Angelina Jolie. It has received generally positive reviews. According to the web site Rotten Tomatoes, 73 percent of Wanted reviews have been positive. Roger Ebert gave it three out of four stars but called it “mindless, heartless, preposterous.”