Coordinating fast cars wasn’t the only challenge for Made in Sofia’s latest commercial for Toyota Yaris, as the production service company had to use over 20 tonnes of salt to offset the immense amount of snowfall that occurred prior to the shoot.
The fifth instalment of SyFy’s Sharknado series has now entered into production, filming on location in Bulgaria. After the Bulgarian shoot is complete, the project will travel to the UK, Australia and two other countries that have yet to be specified.
The BBC’s hit period gangster drama Peaky Blinders will once again double parts of Liverpool for 1920s Birmingham. Cillian Murphy stars as the head of a criminal gang in the Midlands city trying to expand his business empire in the aftermath of the First World War.
Gangster series Mafiya will be set in Russian capital Moscow and will start filming in early 2016. In recent years Hollywood productions like Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit have doubled cities as diverse as Liverpool for the Russian capital.
American cable channel AMC has commissioned docudrama series The Making of the Mob: Chicago as a follow-up to The Making of the Mob: New York. The channel is also backing The West, a separate docudrama tracing the history of America’s Old West from 1865 to 1890.
Veteran actor Patrick Stewart has started filming new comedy series Blunt Talk on location in Los Angeles. Executive produced by Family Guy guru Seth MacFarlane, the story will follow Stewart’s British broadcaster Walter Blunt as he transfers to a new job in US cable news.
Filmmaker Michael Mann shot his cybercrime movie Blackhat in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Los Angeles. Chris Hemsworth stars as a computer expert recruited to hunt an international gang of cyber criminals.
New James Bond movie Spectre is filming on location in Austria, continuing a shoot that’s scheduled to span seven months and at least five different countries. The new film’s title was announced at Pinewood Studios in December.