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Tool of North America takes MINI for a spin filming on a Californian dry lake bed
MINI has blended comedy with action for its latest viral piece. Best Test Drive Ever. Period features a fan tearing through the streets of LA in a MINI before a stunt ramp launches him onto a dry lake bed. From…
Shooting in the Czech Republic with Film Commissioner Ludmila Claussova
Ludmila has been working with the Czech Film Commission since it was established in 2004. From the beginning it was clear that the Czech Republic needed to offer some kind of incentive to filmmakers to remain competitive. Rebates and tax…
BBC’s Ripper Street to double Dublin for period London with Irish Film Board help
New BBC TV dramas will be part-funded by the Irish Film Board (IFB) and will shoot on location in Ireland this year. Period drama Ripper Street will be the largest. It’ll be based in Dublin and is set in 1889…
PCP faces model challenges on Volvo shoot with Stink in Malta
“We want to bring an existing 70-foot racing yacht from Spain to Malta and shoot it in the water tank.” This was the first phone call from the UK. But this proved too costly, which prompted the producers to opt…
Iceland offers dramatic winter visuals as Stink films on location for Honda
Stink has taken advantage of dramatic winter lighting in Iceland for a new Honda spot. Spark visualises the initial impulse that leads to great ideas, as a spark is born in an industrial warehouse and takes flight across a shadowy…
Editor’s Weekly
This week we’ve covered eye-catching new commercials from Garmin, VW China and a Brazilian language school, with filming locations found in Austria, Beijing and California respectively. New figures from Britain revealed that the UK had a good 2011, while Columbia…
Liam Neeson’s The Grey braves sub-zero conditions on location in British Columbia
British Columbia stands in for the wilds of Alaska in new survival thriller The Grey. The film stars Liam Neeson as the head of a group of oil workers stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash. It charts their…
On location with Line Producer Mags Lightbody
Mags Lightbody is a freelance Associate Producer specialising in science and wildlife documentaries and specialist factual dramas. She started out as a Biology graduate and field scientist researching chimpanzees and monkeys in Uganda and South Africa before breaking into Natural…
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…
Likely filming restrictions at US Capitol could reduce District of Columbia appeal
Filming the iconic US Capitol building in Washington, DC, could get harder. Anything other than news footage at the Capitol is generally forbidden and so crews usually shoot from a nearby pavement. Now control over this spot has shifted to…