fires him from his job. (1994). The Renaissance Center is featured in the film Grosse Pointe Blank (1997). In the Steven Soderbergh film adaptation of Out of Sight, the main characters meet in the revolving restaurant atop the Renaissance Center. The scene was filmed on location (1998). The Renaissance Center was featured in the Kevin Costner and Joan Allen film The Upside of Anger. Costner's character plays a DJ for WRIF 101 FM, a real Detroit FM rock station, whose studio (in the film) is housed in the Renaissance Center (2004). For the 2005 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which was played at Comerica Park in Detroit, the center tower of the Renaissance Center was wrapped with an image of a large baseball smashing into the tower, with "4,612 FT" written below it to indicate the distance from home plate at Comerica Park. For Super Bowl XL, held at Detroit's Ford Field on February 5, 2006, a large National Football League logo was wrapped around the main tower just beneath the GM logo. The Renaissance Center also hosted the major media for Super Bowl XL. GM offered the Wintergarden a venue for the annual Fash Bash, a fashion event and fundraiser coordinated by the Detroit Institute of Arts. The History Channel's Life After People: The Series "Roads to Nowhere" episode featured the Renaissance Center. It was used as a primary filming location for the film Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman (2011). In a book by Adrian Humphreys titled The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mob, the former driver of Jimmy Hoffa and a mob associate Marvin "The Weasel" Elkind stated that Hoffa is buried in the foundations of the Renaissance Center (2011). The series finale of Motor City Masters was filmed in the GM World exhibit in the lower level of the Renaissance Center in 2014. The Renaissance Center was prominently featured in a scene from the movie Need for Speed (2014). The alternate cover of the Eminem album Recovery features the Renaissance Center in the background. Eminem's greatest hits album Curtain Call 2 (2022) album cover also features the Renaissance Center. See also Architecture of metropolitan Detroit List of tallest buildings in Detroit List of tallest buildings in Michigan List of tallest buildings in the United States List of largest buildings in the world References Further reading External links Virtual visit of the Renaissance Center Building the Detroit