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.
Quentin Tarantino’s new feature, spaghetti Western Django Unchained, has been filming on location at a movie ranch in California. The Melody Ranch in Santa Clarita is a historic permanent set purpose-built for TV and film productions, and most recently hosted HBO Western series Deadwood.
[slideshow id=238]Masato studied photography in Santa Barbara, California. After graduating he worked for several photographers in New York before setting up his own studio with a friend. Things began to slow in New York after 1986's notorious Black Monday so Masato expanded his photography business to cover Japan as well.
Major shoots for Brad Pitt’s World War Z and Cloud Atlas helped feed more than GBP20 million into Glasgow’s economy throughout 2011, according to figures from the city’s film office. World War Z delivered nearly GBP3.5 million when it turned the city centre into Philadelphia for nearly 20 days.
Filming the iconic US Capitol building in Washington, DC, could get harder. Anything other than news footage at the Capitol is generally forbidden and so crews usually shoot from a nearby pavement. Now control over this spot has shifted to an agency not known for its film-friendly attitude.
[slideshow id=237]In the turbulent 1990s Sergei left Latvia and headed to London to experience western living and seek out his fortune. He ended up serving cocktails to celebrities and media professionals at Teatro, a club popular with the industry, which in turn led him to Pinewood Studios.
German production company Weareflink and Chinese production house CONTRA have filmed in Beijing to mark Chinese New Year for vehicle manufacturer VW. The spot shows a dragon with VW wheels creeping through a busy Beijing street to mark the event.
In probably the most eye-catching language school commercial in the history of the genre, In & Out has filmed on location in California with Megan Fox and Mike Tyson. The spot shows two twenty-something Brazilian men washed up on a desert island populated by multiple clones of Megan Fox.