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Sand, sea and Black Gold - Qatar as a filming location
Producers looking for innovative new sources of film funding could do a lot worse than look eastwards to Doha in Qatar. That’s exactly what veteran director Jean-Jacques Annaud did for the USD55 million movie Black Gold.Located on the Persian Gulf,…
TLG talks to James Bond location filming veteran Callum McDougall
Callum McDougall, veteran of many James Bond movies and Executive Producer on both Quantum of Solace and Casino Royale, flatly refused to give me any heads up about locations for the new Bond 23. But he did shine a light…
Palm-fringed beauty: Filming Mauritius
Mauritius is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful paradise isle locations the world has to offer. It’s 2,040 sq km with a coastline of 177km and has a population of 1.2 million. It gained independence from the British in 1968…
Yukon promotes location filming with webisode trailer in New York’s Times Square
Yukon has launched a new promotional web series for regional location filming, with a trailer screening in Times Square until the end of March 2011. In a fictional dramatic story available on the Yukonic website, two filmmakers travel across Yukon…
Guinness films Dark Life spot on location in New York, Hong Kong and Bogota
Guinness has always known how to make an impact in the advertising world. For its new spot, Dark Life, the brand travelled to New York, Hong Kong and Bogota to capture kinetic images of night-life in three of the world’s…
Mercedes-Benz and Mitsubishi film separate ad spots on location on frozen Canadian lakes
Wilderness landscapes grab the eye, but ice seems to have a particular appeal for car manufacturers. Sleek, beautiful and dramatic, ice reflects many of the natural qualities that car companies are keen to be associated with. In recent years frozen…
Tenerife doubles for Latvia in new beer commercial
The forests of Tenerife have doubled for Latvia in a new spot for Latvian beer brand Lāčplēsis. The spot shows two bears working together to steal beer crates from a distracted van driver travelling down a forest road. Latvian production…
Costa Rica as a location for filming
It's important to remain objective as a journalist, but after researching this article I want to write ‘COME TO COSTA RICA!’ in block capitals and leave it at that. What’s not to like? There is no army, 96% literacy and…
Baz Luhrmann and Leonardo DiCaprio to film Great Gatsby on location in Australia
New York will be re-created at Fox Studios in Sydney and on location throughout New South Wales for Baz Luhrmann’s big-budget version of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan. It’s clearly great news for New…
Malta - a small island with a big film industry
Back in 1999 a CNN journalist coined the phrase “A Hollywood in the Mediterranean” in describing Malta as it simultaneously hosted two big budget films - Gladiator and U-571. Back then even I (I'm pictured on the right in Slovakia…