British filmmaker Joe Wright will soon be shooting Anna Karenina on location near Oxford with Jude Law and Keira Knightley. The project will film on a heritage railway centre near Didcot Parkway station, doubling for a Russian location. Film crew will be on-location until early December.
The Abu Dhabi Film Festival is in full swing at the moment and the city is eager to sell itself as a viable filming location. The festival’s first panel discussion was called Making Movies in Abu Dhabi and looked at how the city is trying to establish itself as a production hub, reports The National.
Admiralty House in Mount Wise, Plymouth, on the UK’s south coast has doubled for 10 Downing Street for a new TV show. Comic Strip used the building for a one-off film noir spoof that sees former Prime Minister Tony Blair accused of murder and on the run.
A new period miniseries charting the construction of the Titanic has filmed scenes in Dublin, doubling the city for Belfast, according to the Belfast Telegraph. Titanic: Blood & Steel takes place over the 15-year time period it took to build the famous ship at Belfast’s Harland and Wolff shipyards.
Zombie thriller World War Z has had some problems importing guns into Budapest, its latest filming location, according to US Weekly. The production imported nearly 90 assault rifles, presumably for planned action scenes, but it turned out the weapons were capable of firing live ammunition.
A new studio facility in New Mexico is just a few weeks from opening, according to the Associated Press. Santa Fe Studios will offer two 60-foot sound stages, as well as terraced dressing rooms and production offices. There’s capacity for at least nine more sound stages, should there be enough demand.
It’s been a good few weeks for the Florida film industry, with feature Dolphin Tale proving a big box-office success in the US. The film shot on location in the state and tells the true story of an injured dolphin that was given a prosthetic tail and nursed back to health at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.
A 12th Century castle in western Scotland will be an exterior shoot location for Sam Mendes’ new Bond film. Duntrune Castle near Lochgilphead in Argyll will be shot in February 2012. The region has a rich history and the castle itself was originally built to guard Kilmartin and Kilmichael glens.