Filmmakers strew money along Seargent S. Prentiss Drive, but it is fake. Don’t stop to pick it up

Published 6:50 pm Monday, July 1, 2019

NATCHEZ — If you’re driving along Seargeant S. Prentiss Drive and happen to see what appear to be $100 bills, more than likely they are fake.

Producers of the movie “Breaking News in Yuba County” were filming a scene Monday on the stretch between the former Ruby Tuesday location and Walmart in which actors threw the fake $100 bills out of a car window.

Passersby later stopped to pick up the bills.

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“We lost about 50 to 100 bills,” said Robin Fisichella, a producer on the film that stars Allison Janney, Mila Kunis and Julliette Lewis among others. “We tried to pick up what we could see.”

Fisichella said producers wanted to make people aware of the fake money not only so people would not mistake it for real money if it were passed off at a store.

“The concern was, too, that they could cause an accident trying to stop the car to pick it up,” Fisichella said. “If they did get some, they would have to know it is fake.”