Agency Spark44 and production company Black Label Productions has filmed a new Jaguar campaign for China with David Beckham. Filming took place in central London and at Goodwood Motor Circuit in southern England, and on Mallorca.
Jude Law has joined forces with Jake Scott of RSA Films for a stylish new spot for Johnnie Walker Blue Label. The Gentleman’s Wager shows Law on a yacht in the Caribbean pledging to win the vessel from Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini by way of a dance in a dusty London theatre.
The British Film Commission and the government have called for feedback from the production industry on new plans to make filming easier in London and England. Currently, the plans will smooth the process enabling productions to create adapted stage space in retrofitted buildings.
Ben Stiller’s family comedy sequel Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb has promoted its London filming locations ahead of the movie’s December opening. The film follows Stiller’s night security guard and his adventures with museum exhibits that magically come to life after dark.
A short location shoot for Star Wars: Episode VII reportedly starts today on the island of Skellig Michael off the coast of County Kerry in south-western Ireland. The island became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996 and is home to the ruins of a medieval monastery.
Crime miniseries The Killing Pool is set to film on location in Liverpool in north-west England. The drama was announced at the Dream Factory event as part of the International Festival for Business in Liverpool and adds to a list of the city’s production credits that include Foyle’s War.
Ben Kingsley is set to star in Spike TV’s 'event' series Tut, which will film on location in Morocco and Canada. Kingsley will in fact play the Grand Vizier to King Tutankhamen, among the most famous of the ancient Egyptian kings since the discovery of his tomb in the 1920s.
MOB Film played with the conventions of Hollywood action movies filming a series of new commercials for Volkswagen on location in South Africa. The spots show high-speed movie dramas being unintentionally sabotaged by VW’s safe distance technology.