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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy films Cold War Europe in London, Budapest and Istanbul
A new version of John le Carré’s Cold War spy thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has been filmed on location in London, Budapest and Istanbul. Set in the early 1970s, the film uses the cities as functional meeting places, in…
Game of Thrones comes to Croatia for location filming on second season
Game of Thrones, HBO’s hit fantasy drama, will film partly in Croatia for its second season. The first series was based in Northern Ireland and also filmed in Morocco and Malta. For season two it’s keeping Northern Ireland as its…
Axe doubles Buenos Aires for US suburbs and builds ark for supermodels
Deodorant brand Axe has put a modern slant on a biblical classic and built an ark in Buenos Aires. The spot shows a local preparing for a storm by building an ark with a gym, a dance floor and some…
X-Men and Sherlock Holmes stars film on location around Canary Wharf
James McAvoy and Mark Strong, stars of X-Men: First Class and Sherlock Holmes respectively, are filming on location around Canary Wharf for heist thriller Welcome to the Punch. Despite being one of the more iconic features of the City of…
Doritos films on location in Mexico for Dip Desperado commercial
Tortilla chip brand Doritos has embraced the image of the Western gunslinger and filmed its new commercial on location in Mexico. Dip Desperado charts the fictional life of Esteban Ortega, a Mexican peasant who finds fame and glory flicking Doritos…
TLG talks to Exec Producer Nigel Wooll about Ridley Scott, Roman Polanski and Madonna
If you want to hear about why Ridley Scott is the most talented director ever, where to find ‘royal palace’-calibre stately homes, the new Millennium Film Finance Corporation and Egyptian camel-wrangling, then you’d enjoy a chat with feature film Executive…
Busy Jordan offers picturesque filming locations and reduced-rate resources
Rave reviews abound for the newest Arab country to make a dent in global high-end feature film production. But how has Jordan been so successful so quickly? Simple: develop an infrastructure and then give international producers access to an array…
Philadelphia: TLG visits the home of Rocky and The Sixth Sense
Sharon Pinkenson has been Executive Director of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office (GPFO) for 19 years and has transformed Philly into a regular movie maker’s destination. Sharon markets her city and its surrounding area, while co-ordinating all things production-related. Today…
King's Speech's Tom Hooper films Captain Morgan pirate ads on location in Spain
King’s Speech Oscar-winner Tom Hooper has headed to Spain to helm a new advertising campaign called To Life, Love and Loot for rum brand Captain Morgan. In the first spot, Dive, Captain Morgan diffuses an attack on his pirate ship…
Location Flanders launches annual location grant at Cannes
Production companies offering Flanders the international spotlight will be able to apply for a location grant of EUR25,000, which will be awarded each year to one TV series or foreign film. Prospective productions will have to pass a cultural test…