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Filming in Tokyo with Location Co-ordinator Masato Yamada
Masato studied photography in Santa Barbara, California. After graduating he worked for several photographers in New York before setting up his own studio with a friend. Things began to slow in New York after 1986's notorious Black Monday so Masato…
World War Z and Cloud Atlas location filming deliver millions for Glasgow in 2011
Major shoots for Brad Pitt’s World War Z and Cloud Atlas helped feed more than GBP20 million into Glasgow’s economy throughout 2011, according to figures from the city’s film office. World War Z delivered nearly GBP3.5 million when it turned…
Filming on location in Latvia with Producer Sergei Serpuhov
In the turbulent 1990s Sergei left Latvia and headed to London to experience western living and seek out his fortune. He ended up serving cocktails to celebrities and media professionals at Teatro, a club popular with the industry, which in…
Editor’s Weekly
We’ve covered two doubling projects from the commercials industry this week, with the French Dairy Council doubling Buenos Aires for France and Dr Pepper turning Barcelona into an unidentified US metropolis. Elsewhere there was bad news for Pinewood Studios in…
Henry De Czar unleashes a monster as Buenos Aires doubles for France
A monster has been unleashed on the Buenos Aires waterfront in a new ad for the French Dairy Council. The spot shows a woman enjoying a cheese snack, only to be interrupted by a monster that leaps from the water…
Filming on location in Colombia with the Colombian Film Commission
The Colombian Film Commission was launched in 2008 and introduces producers and directors working in film, television and advertising to Colombia. Its purpose is to make other countries, and especially audiovisual producers and directors, aware of all the things Colombia…
Athens lowers prices for location filming at historic Greek sites
Greece has launched a new pricing structure to encourage filming at historic sites in Athens. Base costs for feature filming in places like the Acropolis have been cut by more than half, while educational projects that directly promote the locations…
CFP-E and APA heading to Intercontinental Advertising Cup in Istanbul
The Commercial Film Producers of Europe (CFP-E) and the UK’s Advertising Producers Association (APA) will be in Istanbul tomorrow and Friday (26th and 27th January 2012) for the Intercontinental Advertising Cup (ICAC). It’s the third year in a row that…
Smith and Jones Films doubles Barcelona for the US in new Dr Pepper spot
Barcelona has stood in for the US in a new commercial for Dr Pepper. Always One of a Kind shows a crowd of people surging through a picturesque but anonymous American city as they assert their individuality with T-shirts summing…
Producers praise Manila during Bourne Legacy location filming
Up to 25% of new spy sequel The Bourne Legacy is filming on location in Manila in the Philippines and the producers are full of praise for the city. Producer Frank Marshall says that the existing filming infrastructure was a…