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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…
Boston as a location for filming
I took a look around one of the oldest cities in the United States, known for its key role in the USA’s history, to see what makes Boston stand out from other American cities as a filming location. I can’t…
Alberta Culture Minister due in Los Angeles to promote location filming
The Culture Minister for Alberta, Canada, will be spending most of next week in Los Angeles promoting Alberta as a filming location. Lindsay Blackett will be meeting with independent Producers and some of the major Hollywood studios between January 17th…
First ‘Hollywood-benchmarked’ studios launched in Mumbai
Mumbai is already a thriving filmmaking centre, but the city is gaining the first studios built to the Hollywood ‘benchmark’, meaning they’ve been constructed in line with “strict Hollywood compliant design specifications.” Reliance MediaWorks, DreamWorks’ partner, is behind the new…
Tom Cruise praises Dubai after Mission: Impossible shoot
The Dubai leg of the shoot for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol has finished and Tom Cruise has written a thank you letter to the country and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed. Writing on his official website, Cruise said: “We were…
Location Manager Christian McWilliams talks to TLG
This month I talked to Christian McWilliams, the English Location Manager who has reinvented himself as the undisputed go-to guy for Morocco. We discussed Tony Scott, Peter Weir’s The Way Back, and the most beguiling, history-steeped studio in Africa: Atlas…
Charter flights: Taking control the Hollywood way
When you charter an aircraft, whether it’s a helicopter, private jet or large commercial airliner, you call the shots. You can decide when you want to fly, where you want to fly to and you have the whole aircraft so…
New alliance formed to smooth Australia-China co-productions
The Australia China Screen Alliance has been created to smooth the way for more co-productions between the two countries. The nations have had a co-production treaty in place for three years now. The new alliance is intended to take advantage…
BFI to take over most UK Film Council duties
It’s been confirmed that the BFI will take over most of the duties formerly carried out by the UK Film Council in the British film industry. There’ll also be a 60% increase in its Lottery funding, with GBP43 million being…
Location manager Laura Sode-Matteson talks to The Location Guide
A twenty year Hollywood specialist now firmly in the location managing elite, Laura Sode-Matteson was born and raised in Hawaii. In the late 70s Laura scared up a job working on the original Hawaii 5-0. Then she was noticed by…