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.
Product placement has been considered by some as the black-sheep of advertising and yet the industry is bigger than it has ever been.
Ali Abbas Zafar’s upcoming action film, Tiger Zinda Hai, is being shot in Innsbruck, Praxmar, Lüsens, Obsteig, Kühtai, and Kaunertal Valley.
The upcoming adaptation of Julian Barnes’s novel, The Sense of an Ending, shot several crucial scenes in the London borough of Lambeth, with principal photography lasting for seven weeks.