Computer game developer Ubisoft has filmed a new commercial for game Shaun White Skateboarding in Downtown Los Angeles. Transformation shows skateboarders performing trick shots through the city, with ramps, steps and other obstacles springing up around them.
A strike being threatened by Los Angeles transportation workers could affect location filming scheduled for the Californian city and even further afield. Teamsters are currently calling for a 3% annual pay rise, rather than the 2% offered by producers.
Los Angeles has seen a 16% increase in general filming production activity during the second quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2009, reports the Los Angeles Daily News.
American vehicle manufacturer Dodge has doubled two California ranches for New England in a new commercial for its Challenger car. Freedom shows a unit of 18th Century British troops with muskets being charged by American colonialists driving Challenger vehicles.
Mobile phone provider Phones4U has filmed two new spots in India. Wrestlers was shot on location in a traditional wrestling arena - known as an Akhara - in the city of Pune in
Before Julia Roberts’ hotly-anticipated Eat, Love, Pray was filmed earlier this year, nobody had ever managed to pull off a large studio shoot on the Indonesian island of Bali. But
Major vehicle manufacturer VW has filmed on location in India for a photo shoot advertising its Polo car. The campaign will run alongside its television commercials that doubled South Africa for India. The photo shoot production shot in several locations throughout the country, including Rajasthan, Jim Corbett National Park, Pune and Lonavala, both in western India.
American house-moving firm Mayflower has shot its latest commercial on location in Los Angeles using a 20-foot-tall marionette called Audrey. Big Move shows Audrey walking slowly across an American landscape, openly operated by a team of puppeteers. She is followed by a removals bus and eventually settles on a recliner outside her new suburban home.