Dubai made around USD40 million from filming productions throughout 2011, a slight decline from the previous year. The fall is mainly due to the absence of a big-budget film production. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol visited the city for a month in 2010 and spent more than USD30 million.
[slideshow id=243]Ludmila has been working with the Czech Film Commission since it was established in 2004. From the beginning it was clear that the Czech Republic needed to offer some kind of incentive to filmmakers to remain competitive.
New BBC TV dramas will be part-funded by the Irish Film Board (IFB) and will shoot on location in Ireland this year. Period drama Ripper Street will be the largest. It’ll be based in Dublin and is set in 1889 in the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murder cases.
The UK benefitted from combined production spending of more than GBP1 billion in 2011, according to figures from the British Film Commission. Spending increased from the GBP979 million recorded in 2010, despite the number of feature films falling for the third year in a row.
A new production company has been set up in Warsaw, Poland, by a pair of producing veterans. Film Delikatesy has been launched by Pawel Kochanowski, formerly of Propeller Film, and Kasia Targonska, formerly of Tandem Taren-To. The company’s main office is in Warsaw, but the firm will operate throughout Poland.
Producers from nearly a dozen Ontario production companies have visited India to encourage more co-productions between the two regions. The Canadians visited Mumbai and Goa, and took part in a programme at the International Film Festival of India focussing on Canadian filming.
[slideshow id=221]Florence is the Fiji Audio Visual Commission's Chief Executive Officer, the Government agency responsible for the development and promotion of the audio visual industry in Fiji.
Bollywood has turned to Sweden in a bid to give its audiences something new. Romantic horror sequel 1920: Evil Returns filmed partly in Skåne in the south of the country for two weeks in November. It marks a change from the first film, 1920, which filmed extensively in north Yorkshire in the UK.