New action fantasy movie I, Frankenstein filmed on location in Melbourne, Australia. Based on a graphic novel, the film follows Frankenstein’s monster in a dystopian city 200 years after he was created in the events of Mary Shelley’s original book.
Canadian production company Sons and Daughters filmed on location in downtown Toronto for a new wintry spot for Nissan. Winter Warrior depicts a frozen business district where a Nissan driver bravely rescues a stranded family from an army of evil snowmen.
Peter Welter Soler is a producer with production service company Fresco Film, which covers Spain and Portugal. Locations and permitting flexibility are major factors drawing productions to Spain and Portugal, while the weather in places like Malaga are also an attractive prospect.
Screen Yorkshire in northern England has secured an extra GBP7.5 million in funding from the European Regional Development Fund. The money will help fund productions filming on location in the area, which recently have included the Birmingham-set period gangster series Peaky Blinders.
London-based visual effects company Cinesite VFX has announced it will open a new office in Montreal, Quebec. The company – whose credits include Tom Cruise’s upcoming sci-fi Edge of Tomorrow – will be spending CAD6.7 million with the help of an interest-free provincial government loan.
The 4th annual Ile de France Location Expo, run by the Ile de France Film Commission, will take place on 13 and 14 February 2014 in Paris at Les Docks, Cité de la Mode et du Design.
The BBC chose to film on location in the Czech Republic for its new ten-part adventure series The Musketeers. Based on Alexander Dumas’ classic novel The Three Musketeers, the country doubled for 17th Century Paris.
The snow came late this winter and everyone had been complaining about it. Soon they will wish for the winter to leave and warm sunshine to take over slowly only to deliver scorching heat waves in mid-summer.