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North-West London offers 1940s backdrop for Brad Pitt’s Allied
Christchurch Hill in North-West London features as a major location in Robert Zemeckis’s war-time drama Allied, starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard. The production took over the London street in March 2016 before visiting Hampstead Heath and Blythe House in…
New Luther miniseries announced among BBC TV drama commissions
A host of new drama commissions has been announced by the BBC, many of which will be planning to film on location in the UK. The commissions include a new miniseries of the hit crime drama Luther, which will shoot…
London boroughs using cloud-based software to ease location filming plans
Cloud-based software is helping ease the process of location filming in the majority of London’s boroughs. FilmApp is designed to streamline location filming applications and connect Location Managers and Producers with the relevant organisations and resources. First launched in 2007,…
Ra One and Iron Lady among projects boosting London’s Wandsworth borough
Wandsworth in south-west London had a strong 2011, hosting scenes for projects including Oscar-winning feature The Iron Lady and big-budget Bollywood thriller Ra One. With high-profile commercials including Nintendo and Microsoft, the borough made nearly GBP200,000 from filming projects. The…
Editor’s Weekly
It’s been a busy week for ads and we’ve covered spots filmed in Iceland, Buenos Aires and California. A popular TV story has been news that the BBC will be filming a new period drama in Dublin, doubling the city…
World War Z filming location in London to prioritise more optimistic projects
Zombies recently terrorised the Heygate Estate in South London for Brad Pitt’s thriller World War Z, but local authorities now want different projects. Southwark Council is worried that Heygate and the neighbouring Aylesbury Estate are being portrayed as gloomy crime…
From the Editor: Week in Review
It’s been a production week of spies in Istanbul and light shows in Buenos Aires. In addition, we were the Gold Sponsor at the AFCI Cineposium near Paris, meeting lots of old friends and making new ones. We spent an…
Brad Pitt’s World War Z to film on location in London borough of Southwark
Brad Pitt’s pan-European shoot for Marc Forster’s zombie thriller World War Z will arrive in the south London borough of Southwark in the next few weeks. Shooting will take place on the Heygate Estate, although it’s not been confirmed whether…