{"id":2440282,"date":"2026-06-01T14:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2440282"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:52:35","slug":"filming-starts-june-1-in-warwick-for-movie-about-condom-hut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/filming-starts-june-1-in-warwick-for-movie-about-condom-hut\/","title":{"rendered":"Filming starts June 1 in Warwick for movie about ‘Condom Hut’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 1992, responding to the AIDS crisis, former Pan Am flight attendant Emanuella DelVecchio converted a former film development drop-off booth in Cranston into a pink-and-white drive-thru condom store called the Condom Hut.<\/p>\n

The business drew media attention from around the world \u2013 one reporter called DelVecchio from Paris \u2013 and condemnation from the very Catholic Rhode Island community, before closing a year later when business wasn’t brisk enough.<\/p>\n

Now, director Hanna Gray Organschi<\/a> is making a movie about DelVecchio’s venture, with filming set to begin Monday, June 1, in a Warwick parking lot, as crews have installed a replica of the booth and transported the Alice’s Restaurant plaza back to the 1990s, complete with public payphones.<\/p>\n

The film, called “Rubber Hut<\/a>,” is starring Grace Van Patten<\/a>, known for the television miniseries “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.”<\/p>\n

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A movie crew built this replica of a late 20-century film-developing booth in the parking lot of Alice’s Restaurant, West Shore Road, Warwick, as a set for the movie “Rubber Hut,” set to start filming Monday, June 1. Photographed Sunday, May 31, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Organschi, a Connecticut native based in New York City, also wrote “Rubber Hut.”<\/p>\n

Filming in Rhode Island is expected to last two weeks.<\/p>\n

DelVecchio, who was 32 when she launched Condom Hut, also owned Emanuella’s nail salon, in the same shopping plaza as the photo booth turned condom store.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: Movie about Rhode Island ‘Condom Hut’ starts filming<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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