Judge Dredd is to shoot at Cape Town Film Studios in South Africa, with the production due to wrap in March 2011. The studios will not be officially completed until October this year, but they will offer facilities including four sound stages, workshops and production offices.
Action sequel Mission: Impossible 4 is scheduled to start filming in the next few months and will shoot in cities including Vancouver, Prague and Dubai.
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Producer of Transformers 3, has praised Chicago as the production comes to the end of an extended shoot in the city.
Russian snack brand Kirieshki has filmed new commercials in Kuusamo, Finland, doubling the region for Siberia. River Fight shows two men playing a version of Battleships using small ice ships and dynamite. The series includes additional spots where the men play a giant game of billiards and use an ice lens to magnify what little sunlight there is.
Electronics giant Canon has filmed two new spots for its Eos camera in locations around Queenstown in New Zealand. Two locations were used to double for Alaska and a South American jungle. Eagle shows a photographer scaling an Alaskan rock face to capture a dramatic shot, while Frog shows a man taking a picture in a rainforest setting.
Angelina Jolie plans to spend the autumn in Eastern Europe directing a love story set during the Bosnian War of the mid-90s. The actress is a Goodwill Ambassador for the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and visits the Balkans regularly.
Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd will star in Dolphin Tale, which is to shoot in Florida in late September. Shooting will focus on the Clearwater Marine Aquarium and various locations throughout Pinellas County on Florida’s western coastline.
Beer brand Corona Light has filmed a new commercial in the Canaveral/Ecohabs beach area of Tayrona National Park in Colombia. The area is close to where Specsavers filmed