[slideshow id=282]Shanghai production company Black & Cameron has used a specialist 96-camera rig on location across China in a new commercial for Land Rover. Supplied by multi-camera array specialist Splice Boys, the rig had not been used before outside a studio setting.
Paris-based production company Henry de Czar has filmed a new insurance spot in Austria. The French AXA insurance piece shows a skier calling the company a little late - in the midst of a dramatic tumble down a slope - to see what his coverage options are.
Little Minx has staged a gritty shoot-out in eastern Czech Republic in a campaign for new video game Ghost Recon Alpha. In a 20-minute piece that’s both an action short and an extended commercial, soldiers come up against war criminals and automated attack drones in central Russia.
Tennis star Rafael Nadal loses his Kia Sportage in a new spot from Filmmaster. As Kia drivers rally in a European city, they stop at a roadside shop where Nadal happens to have pulled over too; the grand-slam winner can't find his own Kia in the crowd.
Richard Branson’s Virgin Produced production company is staking a claim for the first film to be produced at 35,000 feet. Departure Date is a 30-minute romance with Virgin branding that was filmed over 20 hours on flights between Los Angeles, Forth Worth, Dallas, Sydney and London.
HBO’s new TV feature Hemingway & Gellhorn filmed entirely in and around San Francisco, but the city doubles for locations around the world. It stars Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman and charts the true-life relationship between Ernest Hemingway and famous war correspondent Martha Gellhorn.
Lucy Mulloy’s Cuban drama Una Noche has found success at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival. The film was shot entirely on location in Cuba, focussing on the capital Havana. It tells the story of two young Cubans who dream of escaping to Miami.
Filming incentives and flexibility with shoot locations were the main reasons why Marvel’s Avengers Assemble doubled Cleveland, Ohio, for New York City in the summer of 2011. The film - which now boasts the biggest cinema opening in history - is a huge boost for Ohio.