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Filming on location in Greenland with Mads Pihl of Destination Arctic Circle
Mads moved to Greenland from Denmark with his wife six years ago, leaving behind an academic career and profession as a social anthropologist. He now works for Destination Arctic Circle, which is one of five regional Destination Management Organisations in…
Major futuristic TV drama Defiance films on location in Ontario
New big-budget science-fiction TV drama Defiance filmed on location in Ontario, doubling it for the American mid-West. Set 40 years in the future, the story focuses on a lawman running a dystopian St Louis – renamed 'Defiance' – against a…
BBC builds train for The Lady Vanishes filming on location in Hungary
Hungary doubled for Croatia, Italy and England in the BBC’s TV movie adaptation of classic Hitchcock drama The Lady Vanishes. The story focuses on a young socialite struggling with a mysterious disappearance on board a train during a trip in…
Welcome to the Punch shoots in sleek Canary Wharf filming locations
Crime feature Welcome to the Punch spent weeks filming on location throughout London and shot action sequences around Canary Wharf in the Square Mile. Eran Creevy’s movie pitches cop against criminal in the Isle of Dogs region of East London.…
Skunk films runaway train rescue on location in Romania for Jameson Whiskey
Skunk doubled Romania and the Bulgarian coast for 19th Century Northern Ireland in a new spot for Jameson Whiskey. Iron Horse features John Jameson rescuing a cargo of whiskey barrels and women from a runaway train before it plunges over…
Bleu Arc chases cheaper European production costs filming in Budapest
Hong Kong-based production company Bleu Arc chose a Budapest location shoot for Chinese clothing brand Youngor when the city offered cheaper production costs. The original plan to film around Oxford University in England proved too expensive. One day of filming…
Atlantic Pictures chooses Texas filming locations for Defiance alien invasion
Atlantic Pictures chose dusty filming locations in Texas to shoot the live-action trailer for videogame Defiance. Delivering Mad Max-style visuals, the spot shows a team of drifters fleeing a brawl in a remote bar before facing off against an alien…
Irene rallies Roman army filming on location in Morocco for Orange
Paris-based production house Irene rallied Roman soldiers in Morocco for a new spot promoting the Livebox Play TV decoder from Orange. Director Xavier Giannoli’s ad features a TV viewer interrupting a Roman leader’s battle cry in a remote desert. Irene…
British Columbia location filming threatened by returning sales tax
Location filming in British Columbia in western Canada could take a hit when the Provincial Sales Tax (PST) returns in April 2013. Producers will likely have to pay tax on filming facilities ranging from set rentals to building materials at…
RSA Films and Jake Scott use scenic Iceland filming locations for Hewlett Packard
RSA Films and director Jake Scott headed to northern Iceland to film a campaign for software company Hewlett Packard. The spot shows a family in a picturesque fishing village using a new HP printer to promote their charter fishing boat…