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Quashing controversy, officials relent on plan to shoot Adam Sandler movie scene on Marblehead High football field

By Steven A. Rosenberg

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 04, 2012

MARBLEHEAD -- Columbia Pictures, which is planning to film most of the Adam Sandler movie “Grown Ups 2” in Marblehead, quelled a brewing controversy by declaring it will not use the town’s high school football field to film a scene for the movie. “I think maybe the wisest thing is to gracefully withdraw our request,” Barry Bernardi, the film’s producer, said Thursday at the Marblehead School Committee.

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