A new studio just outside London has officially opened, offering another option for productions planning a UK shoot. Black Hangar Studios lies next to Lasham Airfield in Hampshire and offers a 30,000 square-foot stage, as well as a sizeable water tank, all within a 90-minute drive of central London.
Publicity for Sam Mendes’ new James Bond feature Skyfall has stepped up a notch, with the team sharing details of the Turkish leg of its shoot. Although the production is spending time in Istanbul, a full month of filming has already taken place in the city of Adana in the south of the country.
Annex Films and Plaza Films brought rugby to the streets of Hong Kong in a new co-production marking HSBC’s sponsorship of the recent Hong Kong Sevens rugby competition. Serious Play shows a group of people emulating fancy-dress fans roughing each other up in an improvised game.
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A new sound stage has been officially opened at Pinewood Studios near London. The Richard Attenborough Stage offers 30,000 square feet of floor space for both TV and film production. It’s now Pinewood’s second biggest stage and has increased the studio’s capacity by 7%.
New Bond thriller Skyfall has filmed on location in the Chinese city of Shanghai, quashing rumours that Turkey was to be the only international location outside the UK.
Lucila has a degree in Audiovisual Communication and worked as a freelance Producer and Location Scout on all manner of media for nine years until 2009. She then became head of the Uruguay Film Commission & Promotion Office, which was created in May 2009.
Creative England is arranging a series of networking events in production hubs across England. The sessions are intended to give filming professionals the opportunity to add to their list of contacts and to increase nationwide awareness of England’s filming infrastructure.