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Two Oceans Film Company shoots bungy jump in New Zealand for Visa
Two Oceans Film Company of Singapore shot on location at the Kawarau Bungy Centre in Queenstown, New Zealand, with a specially rigged BlackMagic camera for a new Visa digital campaign. Kawarau is distinctive for being the world’s first commercial bungy…
BBC to film supernatural drama The Living And The Dead in English West Country
The BBC is set to film new period supernatural drama The Living And The Dead on location in England’s West Country next year. Set in Somerset in 1888, the drama will follow a farmer who investigates paranormal activity in a…
Meg Ryan creates California valley town in Virginia with Tom Hanks filming Ithaca
Meg Ryan is doubling Virginia for California’s San Joaquin Valley filming for her family drama Ithaca. Ryan is directing and also starring with Tom Hanks. The feature is the latest high-profile production to come to Virginia following the Revolutionary War…
Hollywood calls for expanded film studio facilities in South Africa as interest grows
Hollywood has called on South Africa to expand the filming infrastructure in cities like Cape Town as interest grows in the country. Pirate drama Black Sails is among the high-profile productions currently filming in South Africa, from a base at…
Clive Owen films period medical TV drama The Knick on location in New York
Clive Owen and filmmaker Steven Soderbergh recreated New York as it looked at the turn of the 20th Century for period medical drama The Knick. Set in 1900, the ten-part miniseries tells the story of the medical staff at Brooklyn’s…
Ron Howard films the Canary Islands for historical drama In the Heart of the Sea
Filmmaker Ron Howard shot partly on location on the Canary Islands off the coast of Morocco for his historical true-life survival tale In the Heart of the Sea. Location Manager Christian McWilliams talks to The Location Guide about doubling the…
RSA Films and Jude Law shoot for Johnnie Walker in British Virgin Islands
Jude Law has joined forces with Jake Scott of RSA Films for a stylish new spot for Johnnie Walker Blue Label. The Gentleman’s Wager shows Law on a yacht in the Caribbean pledging to win the vessel from Italian actor…
Film fixer Eric Brown: California very viable location for commercial producers
California is still a popular filming location for commercial shoots, despite steadily losing out on feature and TV drama production. Eric Brown runs Fixer Films and explains that commercials have not been as affected by California’s limited filming incentive as…
Partizan films BMW Driftmob stunt spot on location in Cape Town
Partizan filmed in Cape Town for a stunt spot promoting the BMW M235i coupe. The commercial features a group of identical BMWs demonstrating the vehicle's technical prowess in a tightly choreographed ‘Driftmob’ of skids and spins circling a Cape Town…
Ben Stiller sequel Night at the Museum Secret of the Tomb films London
Ben Stiller’s family comedy sequel Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb has promoted its London filming locations ahead of the movie’s December opening. The film follows Stiller’s night security guard and his adventures with museum exhibits that magically…