A new Coca-Cola advert has used locations around Los Angeles to double for the plains of Africa. Sleepwalker follows a young man camping on the plains as he wakes in the night and sleepwalks to a distant village to a fridge filled with Coca-Cola bottles, having close encounters with elephants, leopards and hippos along the way.
The Australian state of Victoria is a place that is proud of its film-friendly reputation. In the last four years, four large international productions have made it, and its capital Melbourne, their home wooed by a heady mix of production pluses.
James Cameron’s hotly anticipated USD250 million sci-fi blockbuster Avatar has opened worldwide, with a record-breaking USD232.2 million dollar opening weekend, globally - putting it on course for a USD1.2 billion dollar gross.
Ease Entertainment Services, the first major payroll company to launch in the states in 20 years, has opened it doors for business in Beverley Hills, California, and other key incentive states.
FilmLA has announced that on-location filming across all filming categories declined by 24.5% in the first half of 2009 compared to the same six-month period in 2008. The
Los Angeles-based entertainment property developer Creative Kingdom Inc. is to build a film studio and residential complex near Chiang Mai in northern Thailand.
Film L.A., the organisation that coordinates permits for filmed entertainment shot on-location in the City of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, has announced that on-location feature film and commercial production experienced drastic first quarter declines in 2009.
Filmmakers have long been attracted to Italy and the country has hosted some of the industry’s most renowned features as well as memorable commercials. But it has often proved a challenging region for cash-strapped or lower budget productions, due to a lack of accessible financial incentives.