Mobile operator Sprint has filmed a new commercial on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Called Firsts, the spot shows a wooden wheel rolling into a penny farthing bicycle on the Salt Flats and prompting a chain reaction of falling objects and gadgets, with each more advanced than the one before it.
Highly experienced Executive Producer Alexandra Roussel has established a new agency and executive producer partner company in Paris. Chocolat Rouge works within both France and the international market. It represents directors and other crew from all over the world, while also acting as a production service company.
New Zealand and China have formed a Memorandum of Understanding. This means more Chinese film productions will be made in Auckland. The agreement was reached after meetings between a delegation of Auckland filmmakers and the China Film Association.
A meeting is scheduled for Wednesday this week in New Jersey that could lead to the state’s Film and Digital Media Tax Credit Program being halted for the next fiscal year.
A series of filming incentives are expected to be put forward to the Thai government by the Thailand Film Office sometime next week, reports the Bangkok Post. The proposition is expected to include an income tax exemption for foreign actors, a production VAT refund and a tax credit of up to 25% for foreign film productions.
The government in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, is to announce a AUSD25 million funding boost for existing filming incentives to encourage more production in the state.
American cable service provider Comcast has filmed its latest commercial in New Zealand after a severe snowstorm struck Prague, where it originally intended to shoot. Field shows an army of Comcast employees carrying high-definition TVs on a grassy field. They face off against the opposing army of an anonymous satellite provider.
A new Italian-language film about the life of Mary Magdalene has doubled Tunisia for Palestine. Io Sono Con Te (The English title will be Let It Be) considered filming in Morocco but eventually settled on Tunisia. This was due to cost concerns and the proximity to the Italian mainland. Also, Tunisia offers very similar landscapes to Palestine and the wider Middle East and regularly doubles for countries such as Iraq and Syria.