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Location

Cottonwood Mall

10000 Coors Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87114

3 productions

Access notes

Open shopping centre. The food court is the filmed area.

Parking

Free surface parking.

Filmed Here

Sicario: Day of the Soldado poster

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Better Call Saul poster

Better Call Saul

Sicario poster

Sicario

What Was Filmed Here

Sicario: Day of the Soldado· 2018

Food court and mall exterior scenes

No approved image yetThen
Rio Puerco at the eastern edge of the Tohajiilee Indian Reservation, west of AlbuquerqueNow
Dicklyon · CC BY-SA 4.0

What happened here

Cottonwood Mall's food court and exterior were used to film food-court and mall scenes for Sicario: Day of the Soldado, per Visit Albuquerque's self-guided film tour and the Albuquerque Film Office.

Better Call Saul· 2015· Season 1, Episode 1

The Cinnabon in Omaha

Rio Puerco at the eastern edge of the Tohajiilee Indian Reservation, west of AlbuquerqueLocation
Dicklyon · CC BY-SA 4.0

What happened here

Gene Takavic's exile is shot here: the mall stands in for Omaha, and production brought in period-correct Cinnabon equipment for the counter.

Trivia

The show worked with Cinnabon to source period-specific equipment and service items for these segments.

Sicario· 2015

The food court

No approved image yetThen
The exterior of Cottonwood Mall in Albuquerque.Now
Cottonwood Mall.AllenS · Public domain

What happened here

A tense sequence filmed in the mall's food court, standing in for a border-town shopping centre.

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