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Philips dodges angry drivers on location lighting up Buenos Aires
Electronics giant Philips has taken to the streets of Buenos Aires for its new commercial, See what light can do. The spot shows an endless row of lights zipping across gardens, quiet roads, pools and through homes before reaching the…
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…
BBDO Proximity targets green commercial filming with Carbon Film Quote
Advertising agency BBDO Proximity in Dusseldorf is being pro-active in the quest for commercial production practices that generate less carbon dioxide. The agency’s new Carbon Film Quote has been spearheaded by Steffen Gentis and is being tested by German production…
From the Editor: Week in Review
One of our popular stories this week has been news that the second series of Game of Thrones will be filmed partly in Croatia, which is great for the eastern European country. In other news production has started at Fox…
5% organic revenue growth for advertising giant Havas in first half of 2011
Paris-based Havas has announced organic revenue growth of 5.6% for the first half of 2011 over the same period in 2010. Overall there are mixed results. Organic growth slipped by 1.3% between Q1 and Q2 of this year, but North…
Chevrolet gets dramatic mountain backdrop filming on location in Mojave Desert
Chevrolet has travelled to the Mojave Desert in California to shoot mountain landscapes for its new ad. The Warehouse shows a man touring a storage facility where all the missed opportunities of life are kept and catalogued, before he heads…
Thailand as a location for filming
Nobody who saw the eye-popping skylines of Bangkok, coupled with the astonishing beach paradises of The Hangover Part 2 is likely to leave Thailand off their location shortlist. The exposure of Weerasethakul's Palme d'Or-winning Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His…
French health body creates foggy ambience filming on location near Barcelona
Scantily-clad young people spent a day frolicking on a Spanish hillside for a commercial from French organisation INPES, which promotes sexual health. The Chase uses a voiceover to describe who's attracted to whom, before they’re chased by a collection of…
New Conan the Barbarian film brings swords and sorcery to Bulgaria
Marcus Nispel’s remake of Schwarzenegger fantasy classic Conan the Barbarian has filmed across Bulgaria. Namibia and Croatia were both considered as filming locations for a few scenes, but practicality meant that Bulgaria ended up hosting the full shoot. The filming…
Sylvester Stallone’s Expendables sequel to film on location in Bulgaria
Bulgaria’s Nu Boyana Film Studios has announced that Sylvester Stallone will be heading to Bulgaria to film the sequel to The Expendables. It marks a change from the first film, which was shot largely in New Orleans and Brazil, with…