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Independent Films recreates Normandy on location near Prague for Sony PlayStation
World War II has come to a Prague quarry in Independent’s new commercial for the PlayStation Vita. The World is in Play shows gamers being absorbed in their preferred genres, but the stand-out scenes involve a beach landing that recalls…
Kenneth Branagh feature plans autumn 2012 location filming on Guernsey
Kenneth Branagh’s next feature as director plans to shoot on location on Guernsey, but filming has been delayed until autumn 2012. It will be based on best-selling novel The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, but will be called…
Alaska filming incentives cover third of costs on whale drama Big Miracle
Alaska paid out nearly USD10 million - about 30% of the Alaska spend - in filming incentives to the Big Miracle production team, reports the Anchorage Daily News. The film tells the true story of efforts to rescue grey whales…
Filming on the Isle of Man with Hilary Dugdale
Hilary manages Isle of Man Film, a regional Government agency. She is tasked with encouraging film production, training and promotion of the industry on the Island in partnership with leading UK producer and distributor CinemaNX. Local film production is financed…
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…
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…
British Film Commission data reveals rise in UK filming production spend
The UK benefitted from combined production spending of more than GBP1 billion in 2011, according to figures from the British Film Commission. Spending increased from the GBP979 million recorded in 2010, despite the number of feature films falling for the…
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…
Tom Hanks Somali piracy feature scouts filming locations in Malta and Morocco
A new feature telling the true story of a US sea captain’s 2009 encounter with Somali pirates is scouting filming locations in Malta and Morocco. Captain Phillips will star Tom Hanks as the captain who offered himself as a prisoner…