Smuggler filmed in and around London for a celebration of British movie villains in a new Jaguar campaign. Oscar-winning filmmaker Tom Hooper directed British actors Ben Kingsley, Mark Strong and Tom Hiddleston, all of whom have experience playing suave villains on the big screen.
Park Pictures in London created a Prohibition-era US city in Johannesburg, South Africa, for a new spot for Dulux. Colour Love Story presents a period city where colour is banned, but when a truckload of paint crashes in the street, couples throughout the city bond over a bit of home decorating.
The director of Tom Cruise’s upcoming sci-fi movie Edge of Tomorrow has praised the UK’s production industry and London filming locations. For the project formerly known as All You Need Is Kill, Doug Liman directs Cruise as a soldier forced to repeatedly re-live his death in an alien war.
Period political drama Suffragette is to become the first film to shoot commercially on location in the Palace of Westminster in central London. The scenes will reportedly feature Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst, a key figure in the suffragette movement of the early 20th Century.
James Walker is a freelance Location Manager and local fixer who has been living and operating in Italy since the mid-70s. He has extensive experience in television documentary filmmaking and he is also a producer, researcher, Location Manager and fixer on other forms of factual programming.
Sky Atlantic’s miniseries based on the life of James Bond author Ian Fleming filmed on location largely in Budapest, doubling the Hungarian capital for locations throughout Europe. The drama focuses on Fleming’s World War II experiences working in Naval Intelligence.
A third series of period crime drama Ripper Street will return to film in Dublin, using the city as a double for Victorian London. Flagging ratings had prompted the BBC to cancel the drama, but the show has been resurrected for streaming service Amazon Prime Instant Video.
A film version of video game franchise Angry Birds will follow British Columbia’s digital animation incentive to film in Vancouver with Sony Pictures Imageworks. The game was first launched as a smart-phone app in 2009 and has since been downloaded more than two billion times.