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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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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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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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Experience the glamour of film-making on location with premier celebrity photographer Greg Williams and follow the making of "Quantum of Solace". …
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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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It’s been a while since Tacoma has been used as a location for a major feature film. In the late 1980s and throughout the ’90s, pictures such as “Three Fugitives,” “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,” “I Love You To Death” and “10 Things I Hate About You” were all shot in the city. …
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