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Game of Thrones films frozen landscapes on location in Iceland for second season
HBO’s hit fantasy miniseries Game of Thrones has made the most of Iceland’s frozen landscapes filming scenes for its second season. Frozen and wintry climates characterise parts of the series’ mythical lands and so glacial regions of Iceland were used…
Atlanta Film Studios makes equipment deal with Paskal Lighting
Atlanta Film Studios Paulding County (AFSPC) in Atlanta, Georgia, has come to an equipment supply agreement with Paskal Lighting. The Los Angeles-based company will be the exclusive supplier of equipment such as lighting and grip to the new studio facility.…
Nelson Mandela TV miniseries to film on location in South Africa
A TV miniseries exploring the life of Nelson Mandela will be filmed in South Africa later this year. Dramatising 60 years of the former President’s life up to his release from prison in 1990, the series will be six hours…
Editor’s Weekly
This week we covered a creative new online advertising campaign from Honda. The UK is in the spotlight again with the release of Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, while the British Prime Minister has called for the UK film industry to…
Partizan travels from Mexico to Alaska for Honda and films with a 360-degree camera
Vehicle manufacturer Honda is looking to turn heads with a new online advertising campaign for the Civic that was filmed using a 360-degree camera. Off The Grid takes a visual approach similar to Google Street View and invites the viewer…
Filming in Kent in the UK with Gabrielle Lindemann
Gabrielle Lindemann set up the Kent Film Office for Kent County Council in 2006. Prior to that, she worked for the BBC as a as an Assistant Director and Location Manager before becoming a freelance Location Manager. Kent became her…
Filmmaker prepares for challenges of location shoot in West Bank town of Hebron
American filmmaker Nicole Ballivian is preparing for the challenge of filming in Hebron on the West Bank in the Palestinian Territories. Around 500 armed Jewish settlers live among 160,000 Palestinians in the town, so tensions are constantly high; making a…
Raleigh Studios considers Toulouse facility
Raleigh Studios may develop a facility in Toulouse in the south of France, depending on the results of an ongoing study. The site under consideration is a former military base spanning 111 acres outside the city. Raleigh has been engaged…
Thor director Kenneth Branagh scouts Guernsey for new feature project
Filmmaker Kenneth Branagh has scouted locations on the island of Guernsey for his new feature project, an adaptation of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Guernsey is a British Crown dependency and is part of the Channel Islands…
Editor’s Weekly
England is busily organising its new filming support structure, while traditional global filming hub California has revealed a general production increase for 2011, despite a massive fourth-quarter dip. Elsewhere, Peter Jackson’s hobbit films completed their first stage of location filming…