Zombies recently terrorised the Heygate Estate in South London for Brad Pitt’s thriller World War Z, but local authorities now want different projects. Southwark Council is worried that Heygate and the neighbouring Aylesbury Estate are being portrayed as gloomy crime hotspots.
“We want to bring an existing 70-foot racing yacht from Spain to Malta and shoot it in the water tank.” This was the first phone call from the UK. But this proved too costly, which prompted the producers to opt for a more creative solution;
[slideshow id=242]Stink has taken advantage of dramatic winter lighting in Iceland for a new Honda spot. Spark visualises the initial impulse that leads to great ideas, as a spark is born in an industrial warehouse and takes flight across a shadowy valley and beach before morphing into the new Honda Civic.
The Location Guide’s Publishing Director, Jean-Frédéric Garcia, will be moderating an AFCI seminar at Berlinale on the importance of co-operative film production. Taking place on 11th February 2012, the seminar will focus on global filming incentives, filming locations and co-production treaties.
This week we’ve covered eye-catching new commercials from Garmin, VW China and a Brazilian language school, with filming locations found in Austria, Beijing and California respectively. New figures from Britain revealed that the UK had a good 2011, while Columbia Pictures is scouting Malta and North Africa for its new Tom Hanks project Captain Phillips.
[slideshow id=241]British Columbia stands in for the wilds of Alaska in new survival thriller The Grey. The film stars Liam Neeson as the head of a group of oil workers stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash. It charts their struggles to survive against both the savage weather and a marauding pack of wolves.
Mags Lightbody is a freelance Associate Producer specialising in science and wildlife documentaries and specialist factual dramas. She started out as a Biology graduate and field scientist researching chimpanzees and
The Île de France Location Expo is taking place at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris on 10th and 11th February, and The Location Guide will be there to support them.