Peter Webber, the British-born director of features including Hannibal Rising and Girl with a Pearl Earring, has announced his next feature will be shot on location in New Zealand. The project, tentatively called Emperor, will be set in the days following Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II in 1945.
[slideshow id=187]International co-production The Three Musketeers, directed by Paul WS Anderson, has opened in cinemas around the world. Two thirds of the 3D adaptation, were shot on original locations in Bavaria: Bamberg, Würzburg, Pommersfelden, Burghausen, Herrenchiemsee, Schleißheim and Munich.
It’s been an eventful week in South America, with Tiger Beer and Johnnie Walker active in Chile and Brazil, respectively. Further north Spielberg’s been hard at work with his new feature Lincoln in Virginia. On the other side of the US Chevy dropped one of its new cars out of an aeroplane. We also spoke to location professionals in Sweden and Ethiopia.
Cramped and expensive, real aircraft don’t lend themselves as convenient filming locations. Richard Chan runs Aero Mock-Ups, a bi-coastal US company that provides realistic and fully-functional aircraft interiors for use in features, TV shows and commercials.
[slideshow id=186]The History Channel has filmed three new ads marking its India launch. Bollywood star Salman Khan appears talking to a samurai warrior in a Japanese bamboo enclave, chatting to a tired rock climber on a mountain peak and relaxing with a jungle explorer on a remote river bank.
[slideshow id=185]Scotch whiskey brand Johnnie Walker has launched its first Brazilian advertising campaign with a spot filmed in Rio de Janeiro. Keep Walking Brazil shows the city’s famous Pão de Açúcar mountain (also known as The Sugar Loaf) rising into the figure of a giant, as the city watches in wonder.
Chevrolet has taken to the skies over Arizona for a daring spot for its Sonic small car range. Skydive shows a Chevy being dropped out of the back of a C-130 aeroplane at 10,000 feet and drifting gracefully through the atmosphere while being filmed by a team of skydivers.
[slideshow id=184]With a background in tourism, Firew has been a location fixer for over ten years. He has worked extensively with foreign media, including the BBC and Lonely Planet, on a range of documentaries including Real Man, Psychology of War and Operation Moses.