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Canal Digital ad uses US aircraft carrier
Aircraft carrier the USS Hornet in San Francisco has been used as the filming location for a new spot from Canal Digital. The ad was made by Swedish production company FlodellFilm and shows two pilots walking across the deck of…
Sherlock Holmes stays true to its London roots
Guy Ritchie’s global smash-hit, Sherlock Holmes, filmed principally in London. Robert Downey-Junior’s job was to reinvent Holmes for the 21st Century, but Production Manager Giles Edleston’s challenge was to bring Victorian London to the screen in a “bigger, louder and…
The Book of Eli shoots in New Mexico
New Mexico in the American south-west offers distinctive desert landscapes that have been used recently to striking effect in films such as No Country for Old Men, Terminator: Salvation and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. A 25% tax rebate and…
Clash of the Titans shoots in Tenerife
The remake of 1981 classic Clash of the Titans, due to be released in 2010, has used the Island of Tenerife to film nearly 20% of its scenes. Turismo de Tenerife invited the film's location manager, Robin Higgs, to the…
UK Film Council three year plan
The UK Film Council has launched a three month public consultation into its most significant revision plans since it was created in 2000. The revisions, known as UK Film: Digital innovation and creative excellence, set out the council's policy and…
Latvian locations for new Drambuie ad
When creative agency Nitro Group and production company Academy Films wanted a Scottish location for their latest Drambuie spot, they chose Latvia because of its low costs and good overall production values. They turned to local production service company Baltic…
Cadbury shoot in Ghana
An innovative brief from Cadbury’s left London creative agency Fallon, and production company Rattling Stick with a huge filming challenge in rural Ghana earlier this year, which relied on a combination of slick UK pre-production, and the on-the-ground assistance of…
Toyota film latest spot on location in Dubai
Last month Central Films, based at the Dubai Media City, and 1st Avenue Inc from Japan co-produced a new 60 second spot for the Middle East region for Toyota Prado. The four day shoot used locations in and around Dubai…
HSBC braves Chile's winter for the perfect shoot
Sometimes everything falls into place on a commercial shoot: An exciting script with a heartfelt message, a director inspired to bring the story to life, and the right casting and location as a palette from which to work. So it…
A year in Belize
Nigel Miguel, Belize’s dynamo of a Film Commissioner, is on a mission: to make Belize into the film capital of the Caribbean. And with terrain made famous by The Dogs of War, Heart of Darkness and The Mission at his…