Diving dollar has gold lining for silver screen
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THE plunging Australian dollar promises to be a bonanza for big-spending American film and TV productions shooting in Australia. The Melbourne Film Office …
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By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles | The film business is synonymous with Los Angeles. So much so, that the name most associated with the industry is visible in bold white letters to anyone within a few miles of the hills that separate the city from the San Fernando Valley. …
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… Male Gigolo" and "Saturday Night Live" ) will be on location in Detroit starting Monday to begin shooting the feature film comedy "Virgin on Bourbon …
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One proposal has a little bump for films shot here and deemed family-friendly, says Bob Hudgins, head of the Texas Film Commission. …
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“This awards gala honors our hard-working location managers whose main motto is ‘keep filming in California,’ ” said Sheri Davis, director of the Inland Empire Film Commission and awards co-chair along with Janice Arrington of the Orange County Film Commission and Pauline East of the Antelope Valley Film Office. …
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Jill Watt, a 25-year-old Cebuana, is the location scout that Bigfoot Entertainment has turned to for its latest feature, Tears From Afar. The film follows the story of a young Vietnamese woman who weds an American man with the expectation that he …
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Hollywood Reporter | Location managers honored at COLAs – Hollywood Reporter | By Borys Kit | Oct 20, 2008, 04:52 PM ET
The location managers behind Stage 6/Screen Gem’s “Fired Up” and Universal/Imagine’s “Frost/Nixon” tied for location manager of the year while the location team behind DreamWorks’ “Eagle Eye” took location team of the year, two of the top prizes at Sunday’s 14th annual California On Location Awards.
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They block off streets, create explosions, make fake rain, close playgrounds, take over buildings and take up parking. But when it comes to visiting filmmakers, the city of Seattle, its neighborhoods and the state of Washington have this to say …
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A film crew set up at Lisa’s Coffee Shop on San Bernardino Road in Covina on Monday to shoot a promotional commercial for the TNT cable network’s shows including `The Closer’, `Saving Grace’, and `Raising the Bar’. Location manager Albert M. Epps …
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The first ever (officially recorded) foreign film shot on location in Ceylon (as Sri Lanka was then known) was Carol Reed’s “Outcast of the Islands” (1951). Six years later, Sir David Lean chose Sri Lanka to shoot his 1957 Oscar winning movie ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ with Sir Alec Guinness in the lead more films and tele-series down the line …. John Derek shot “Tarzan the Ape Man” (1981) in Sri Lanka with his wife Bo Derek in the lead. …
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Nashwa al Ruwaini, the festival’s director, said its success was “beyond our imaginations”.
“We have a film fund, a film commission, a research circle and a film institute – and that’s not to mention all the other private investments that are going on. This is truly history in the making.” …
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"More than just location," says Johnny Griffin of the Wilmington Regional Film Commission, "these productions took advantage of production facilities, …
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The Association for the Future of Film & Television will meet from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Playhouse on the Square, 51 S. Cooper. The event is hosted by two influential local supporters: Linn Sitler, commissioner of the Memphis & Shelby County Film Commission, and Dean Deyo, president of the Memphis Music Foundation.
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