Robert De Niro is making a movie in Queens, Sydney Pollack is filming at the United Nations and Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pretending to be mayor - at City Hall - for an episode of NBC's Law & Order.

Those are some of the film and TV scenes shot this month in New York, where the movie industry spends about $10 billion each year, said film commissioner Katherine Oliver.

Pollack is shooting The Interpreter, starring Nicole Kidman, inside the United Nations, and De Niro is filming Hide and Seek at the Silvercup Studios in Queens, also the set for HBO's Sex and the City and The Sopranos.

Oliver has helped the mayor bring more productions to New York, especially in the wake of the 9-11 attacks, which put a damper on business.

In 2002, feature film producers shot in New York for 2,525 days. With TV series, commercials and music videos added, the production days totaled 14,858, according to the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting.

In 2003, feature film production on location in New York increased by 27 percent, to 3,216 days, for a total of 19,309 days.