Inqlings: Philly is hot spot for another film

Cameras will begin rolling in the area Monday for Future Weather, an independent film about a 13-year-old girl (Perla Haney-Jardine, of Kill Bill: Vol. 2) with deep-seated mother issues:

Her mom (Marin Ireland, a Tony nominee for reasons to be pretty) has abandoned her, and she is obsessed with protecting the environment (Mother Earth) as she is shuttled off to live with her grandmother (Amy Madigan, Field of Dreams, Carnivàle).

Lili Taylor (Mystic Pizza, Say Anything . . .) plays a science teacher.

The five-week shoot is the culmination of four years of work by Philly producer Kristin Fairweather and writer/director Jenny Deller.

Deller was inspired by a piece in the New Yorker (pre-Inconvenient Truth) about global warming, Fairweather said last week. She layered the mother-daughter story on top.

The science in the movie is not heavy-handed, says Fairweather, who says the production is working to minimize its carbon footprint by working with sustainable businesses. It's maintaining a blog at http://futureweathermovie.blogspot.com

Khyber stops the music

Last month, when word spread that no shows were booked for August, Simons said he had merely fired the booking agent and was looking for a replacement; as recently as last weekend, he said he was negotiating with another booker. But last week, Simons told City Paper that he had given up on that idea, that the punk-rock and alternative crowd now bypasses Old City.