The Location Guide delves into the unique challenges 1917 presented the location department from scout to strike with Supervising Location Manager Emma Pill who says “I have never worked on anything like this before”.
Action thriller SAAHO is the most recent Bollywood flick to shoot in Austria’s landscapes, following on from Tiger Zinda Hai which shot in the region in 2017.
Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson and director Cary Joji Fukunaga have announced that on location shoots will take place in Norway, Jamaica, London and Italy for the as yet untitled Bond 25.
Principal photography has begun on an adaptation of Ruben Östlund’s 2014 Golden Globe nominee Force Majeure. Entitled Downhill, the film has begun filming in the Austrian alps.
Netflix announced production on its new anthology series In True Events, Historia De Un Crimen is underway in Mexico City. The eight-episode season is being produced by Dynamo for Netflix.
The 24th Bond film Spectre (2015) shot key snowscape scenes in Austria’s Sölden mountain range. The Hoffler Klinik whose striking glass cubed exterior actually belongs to Das Central Hotel’s Ice Q restaurant. The exhilarating chase sequence also utilised the Gaislachkogl cable car and Gletscherstraße Road which leads down the mountainside.
From high-end TV dramas such as The Night Manager, The Crown and Game of Thrones to big budget movies such as Star Wars: The Last Jedi or Justice League, there has been a well-documented boom in international production in recent years.
There was a strong contingent representing the UK at this year’s FOCUS show, the meeting place for international production. Local and national screen agencies through to production services companies, location providers and production technology firms were among the UK exhibitors, many of them based in a dedicated UK Focus zone at the Business Design Centre in Islington.