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MJZ pairs model with talking horse in US Virgin Islands filming for DirecTV
MJZ filmed on location in the US Virgin Islands for a new campaign for the American satellite service provider DirecTV. The spots feature US model Hannah Davis on a tropical beach, while her New Zealand-accented talking horse ruminates on his…
New drama series Tatau films on Cook Islands and launches on BBC Three
New drama Tatau filmed on location on the Cook Islands and launched over the weekend on BBC3. The series follows two young Britons who find they have been given the power to see into the future by way of a…
Pinewood Studios to raise £30m to part fund London expansion plan
Pinewood Studios near London is set to raise nearly GBP 30 million to part-fund its major expansion plan. The company will place eight million shares and create new bank facilities to fund the first part of the three-phase Pinewood Studios…
Markenfilm Crossing shoots Chilean highway for new Mercedes Benz spot
Markenfilm Crossing’s new commercial shoot for the Mercedes Benz G500 has become the first to close Chile's central Portillo international trucking route. The spot showcases the G500’s handling as it speeds across a mountainous wilderness. “This was the first time…
Crowns & Owls capture Mediterranean feel filming for Ted Baker in Wales
Filmmaking collective Crowns & Owls sought the Mediterranean feel of Portmeirion in north Wales for a new campaign for Ted Baker’s SS15 fashion collection. Short film Pinch Me follows a well-dressed gentleman exploring an exotic but secluded coastal village. Crown…
From Dusk Til Dawn second series starts filming Texas with Robert Rodriguez
A second season of From Dusk Til Dawn: The Series, created by Robert Rodriguez, has started filming on location in Austin, Texas. The drama is based on the 1996 vampire movie of the same name that Rodriguez also directed, and…
Eeksaurus Productions films phone charger cable riff in Sri Lanka for Samsung
Eeksaurus Productions filmed on location in Sri Lanka for a new ad promoting the longer battery life of the Samsung Z1 mobile phone. The spot shows commuters having to use kilometre-long charger cables to cope with their phones’ inferior batteries.…
Filming for Rocky spinoff movie doubles Philadelphia for Liverpool and California
A new movie spinoff from Sylvester Stallone’s iconic Rocky franchise has filmed in Philadelphia, and also doubled the city for Liverpool and California. As a state, Pennsylvania has hosted movies like The Dark Knight Rises and Tom Cruise’s vigilante drama…
Mississippi has prolific 2014 with low-budget filming productions
Mississippi hosted a diverse production slate in 2014 but they were mostly low-budget shoots. James Brown biopic Get On Up was the highest-profile movie to film locally. Nineteen movies helped generate overall production spending of around USD 55 million. Producers…
Fifty Shades Of Grey filming helps boost production on Vancouver’s North Shore
Filming for the movie version of the wildly popular erotic novel Fifty Shades Of Grey helped boost production on Vancouver’s North Shore last year. The shoot included stage work at North Shore Studios, as well as location filming across the…