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A filming location is a place where some or all of a film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets
Set construction

Set construction is a process by which a scenic design works in collaboration with the theatre director of the production to create the set for a theatrical, film or television production....
 constructed on a studio backlot
Backlot

A backlot is an area behind or adjoining a movie studio with space to build or with permanent exterior Set construction for outdoor scenes in film and/or television productions....
 or soundstage. For example, the television series 24
24 (TV series)

24 is an United States serial action drama television series. Broadcast by Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States and syndicated worldwide, the show first aired on November 6, 2001, with an initial 13 episodes ....
 is filmed primarily on location except for some scenes which are always filmed on the same sets.

On location is a term used to describe the filming on such a real site.






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A filming location is a place where some or all of a film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets
Set construction

Set construction is a process by which a scenic design works in collaboration with the theatre director of the production to create the set for a theatrical, film or television production....
 constructed on a studio backlot
Backlot

A backlot is an area behind or adjoining a movie studio with space to build or with permanent exterior Set construction for outdoor scenes in film and/or television productions....
 or soundstage. For example, the television series 24
24 (TV series)

24 is an United States serial action drama television series. Broadcast by Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States and syndicated worldwide, the show first aired on November 6, 2001, with an initial 13 episodes ....
 is filmed primarily on location except for some scenes which are always filmed on the same sets.

On location is a term used to describe the filming on such a real site. The term is often mistakenly believed to mean that the production is being filmed on the actual location in which its story is set, but this is not necessarily the case.

Pros and cons

Location filming has several advantages over filming on a studio set:
  • It can be cheaper than constructing large sets
  • The illusion of reality can be stronger - it is hard to replicate real-world wear-and-tear, and architectural details
  • It sometimes allows the use of cheaper non-union labor or to bypass a work stoppage in the US. Canadian locations such as Vancouver
    Vancouver

    Vancouver is a coastal city and major seaport located in the Lower Mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest city in British Columbia and the second largest metropolitan area in the Pacific Northwest region....
     and Toronto
    Toronto

    Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
     are known for this.
  • It sometimes allows "frozen" currency to be used. The 1968 movie Kelly's Heroes
    Kelly's Heroes

    Kelly's Heroes is an offbeat 1970 war film about a group of World War II soldiers who go AWOL to rob a bank behind enemy lines. Directed by Brian G....
     was filmed in Yugoslavia
    Yugoslavia

    File:LocationYugoslavia2.pngYugoslavia is a term that describes three political entities that existed successively on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century....
     using profits that had been made on movie exhibitions in that country but couldn't be exported.


Its disadvantages include:
  • A lack of control over the environment - passing aircraft, traffic, pedestrians, bad weather, city regulations, etc.
  • Finding a real-world location which exactly matches the requirements of the script
  • Members of the audience may be familiar with a real-world location used to double as a fictional location (such as Rumble in the Bronx
    Rumble in the Bronx

    Rumble in the Bronx is a Hong Kong films of 1995 Hong Kong martial arts film-Hong Kong action cinema starring Jackie Chan and Anita Mui.Released in the US in 1996, Rumble in the Bronx had a successful theater run, and brought Chan into the United States mainstream....
     inexplicably showing the mountains outside Vancouver in the background of an urban Bronx-set scene)
  • Taking a whole film crew to film on location can be extremely expensive


Location filming can provide significant economic development benefit to an area, including local cast and crew and the use of facilities such as catering and accommodation.

Practicalities

Location filming usually requires a Location Manager
Location manager

The Location Department is an often forgotten yet integral department in the creation of a motion picture. Like the Production Coordinator, it is only when things go wrong that the Location Manager gets any recognition....
, and locations are usually chosen by a Location Scout. Many popular locations, such as New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, and the Isle of Man
Isle of Man

The Isle of Man , or Mann , is a self-governing Crown dependency, located in the Irish Sea at the geographical centre of the British Isles....
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, have dedicated film offices to encourage location filming, and to suggest appropriate locations to film-makers.

In many cases a second unit
Second unit

In film, the second unit is a team that shoots footage which is of lesser importance for the final motion picture, as opposed to the first unit, which shoots all scenes involving actors, or at least the stars of the film....
 is despatched to film location scenes, with a second unit director and sometimes with stand-in
Stand-in

A stand-in in film and television is a person who substitutes for the actor before filming, for technical purposes such as lighting.Stand-ins are helpful in the initial processes of production....
 actors. These locations shots can then be edited into the final film or TV program alongside studio-shot sequences, to give an authentic flavour, without the expense or trouble of a full-scale location shoot. NYPD Blue
NYPD Blue

NYPD Blue is an United States TV show police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan.....
, for example, was filmed primarily in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, but used second unit footage of New York City for colour, as well as featuring a small number of episodes filmed on location with the cast.

Substitute locations

It is common for films to be set in one place, but filmed in another, usually for reasons of economy or convenience, but sometimes because the substitute location looks more historically appropriate.

Some substitute filming locations, and the corresponding film setting, include:
  • Almerķa
    Almerķa (province)

    Almer?a is a Provinces of Spain of southern Spain. It is bordered by the provinces of Granada , Region of Murcia, and the Mediterranean Sea. Its capital is Almer?a....
    , Spain
    Spain

    Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
     - Southwest USA (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 in film Cinema of Italy epic Western spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in the title roles....
    , as well as numerous other Spaghetti Western
    Spaghetti Western

    Spaghetti Western, also known in some countries in mainland Europe as the Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad Genre of Western film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most were produced and directed by Cinema of Italy, usually in coproduction with a Cinema of Spain....
    s)
  • Augusta, Georgia - Boston, Massachusetts
    Boston, Massachusetts

    Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
     (That Darn Cat (1997))
  • Bath, UK - Boston, Massachusetts
    Boston, Massachusetts

    Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
     (Sleepy Hollow
    Sleepy Hollow (film)

    Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 in film period piece horror film directed by Tim Burton, interpreting the legend of The Headless Horseman and based upon the Washington Irving story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow....
     (1999)
  • Bristol
    Bristol

    Bristol is a City status in the United Kingdom, unitary authority area and Ceremonial counties of England in South West England, west of London, and east of Cardiff....
    , UK - Peckham
    Peckham

    Peckham is an area of London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark, located 3.5 miles south-east of Charing Cross, about one mile east of Camberwell and one mile west of New Cross....
    , London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
     (Only Fools and Horses
    Only Fools and Horses

    Only Fools and Horses is a United Kingdom television situation comedy, created and written by John Sullivan , and made and broadcast by the BBC....
    )
  • Berlin
    Berlin

    Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
    , Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
     - Paris
    Paris

    Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
    , London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
     (Around the World in 80 Days
    Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film)

    Around the World in 80 Days is a 2004 in film comedy/adventure film based on Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days . It stars Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan and C?cile de France....
     (2004)), Moscow
    Moscow

    Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
    , Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
     (The Bourne Ultimatum
    The Bourne Ultimatum (film)

    The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 spy film directed by Paul Greengrass and loosely based on the Robert Ludlum The Bourne Ultimatum. The film is a sequel to The Bourne Supremacy and the third film of the Bourne ....
     (2007))
  • Birmingham
    Birmingham

    Birmingham is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham is the most populous of England's English Core Cities Group, and is the List of United Kingdom cities by population British city after London, with a population of 1,010,200 ....
    , UK - New York City (Velvet Goldmine
    Velvet Goldmine

    Velvet Goldmine is a 1998 in film film directed and co-written by Todd Haynes. The film tells the story of a pop star based mainly on David Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust' character and is set in Britain during the days of glam rock in the early 1970s....
    )
  • Brent Cross
    Brent Cross

    Brent Cross in London is best known as the first shopping mall of its kind to be built in the United Kingdom. Situated on the A406 road between the southern terminus of the M1 motorway and the A41 road in the London Borough of Barnet and taking its name from the River Brent which runs through the site....
    , London, UK - Hamburg
    Hamburg

    Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
     (Tomorrow Never Dies
    Tomorrow Never Dies

    Tomorrow Never Dies is the eighteenth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
    )
  • Budapest
    Budapest

    Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
    , Hungary
    Hungary

    Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
     - Berlin (Spy Game
    Spy Game

    Spy Game is a 2001 drama film, directed by Tony Scott, and starring Robert Redford and Brad Pitt. The film grossed $62,362,785 in the United States and United States dollar143,049,560 worldwide....
    ), Paris
    Paris

    Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
     (Maigret
    Maigret

    Jules Maigret, known as Maigret to most people, including his wife, is a fictional police detective, created by writer Georges Simenon....
     - UK TV series (1993))
  • Chicago, Illinois elevated railway
    Chicago 'L'

    The 'L' is a rapid transit system that serves the city of Chicago in the United States. It is operated by the Chicago Transit Authority and is the third-busiest rail mass transit system in the United States, behind New York City's New York City Subway and Washington, D.C.'s Washington Metro....
     - New York elevated railway (Spider-Man 2
    Spider-Man 2

    Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 in film Cinema of the United States superhero film directed by Sam Raimi, written by Alvin Sargent and developed by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, and Michael Chabon....
    )
  • City Chambers, Glasgow
    Glasgow

    Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and List of largest United Kingdom settlements by population in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's Scottish Lowlands....
    , Scotland
    Scotland

    conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
     - The Vatican
    Apostolic Palace

    The Apostolic Palace, also called the Sacred Palace, the Papal Palace or the Palace of the Vatican, is the official residence of the Pope in the Vatican City....
     (Heavenly Pursuits
    Heavenly Pursuits

    Heavenly Pursuits is a British film directed by Charles Gormley and was released in 1985. It stars Tom Conti and Helen Mirren, as well as future Trainspotting star Ewen Bremner in a minor role....
    )
  • Fort Hunter Liggett, California
    California

    California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
     - Vietnam
    Vietnam

    Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
     (We Were Soldiers
    We Were Soldiers

    We Were Soldiers is a 2002 in film Cinema of the United States war film that dramatized the Battle of Ia Drang in November 1965, the first major engagement of United States United States Armed Forces in the Vietnam War....
    )
  • Glasgow, Scotland - Moscow, Russia (Gorky Park
    Gorky Park (film)

    Gorky Park, the 1983 film based on the novel Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith, was directed by Michael Apted from the screenplay by Dennis Potter ....
    ), New York City (    The House of Mirth
    The House of Mirth

    The House of Mirth , by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society....
    )
  • Hamilton, Ontario
    Hamilton, Ontario

    Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the James Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe....
     - American blue-collar towns & inner cities. Detroit (    Exit Wounds
    Exit Wounds

    Exit Wounds is a 2001 action film based on the book of the same name by John Westermann. The film, aside from the title and some of the character's names has no resemblance to the novel....
     (2002)), the Bronx (Finding Forrester
    Finding Forrester

    Finding Forrester is a 2000 in film film, screenplay by Mike Rich and film director by Gus Van Sant, about a teenager, Jamal Wallace, played by Rob Brown , who is accepted into a prestigious private high school....
     (2000))
  • Hawaii
    Hawaii

    File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
     - West Africa
    West Africa

    West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:...
     (    Tears of the Sun
    Tears of the Sun

    Tears of the Sun is a 2003 in film war film directed by Antoine Fuqua depicting a rescue mission by United States Navy SEALs in the midst of a fictional civil war in the West African country of Nigeria....
    ), Brazil
    Brazil

    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
    ian Amazon
    Amazon River

    The Amazon River of South America is the list of rivers by length in the world by volume, with a total river flow greater than the next top eight largest rivers combined....
     (    The Rundown
    The Rundown

    The Rundown is a 2003 in film action comedy film starring Dwayne Johnson and Sean William Scott about a bounty hunter who must head for the Amazon Rainforest to retrieve his employer's renegade son....
    )
  • Helsinki
    Helsinki

    Helsinki is the Capital and largest List of cities and towns in Finland of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea....
    , Finland
    Finland

    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
     - Moscow, Russia (    Gorky Park)
  • Hedsor House
    Hedsor House

    Hedsor House is a Georgian architecture mansion in England in the southern most point of Buckinghamshire in the village of Hedsor. Perched overlooking the River Thames, a Manor house at Hedsor can be dated back to 1166 when the estate was owned by the de Hedsor Family....
    , England
    England

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
     - A beautiful English film location (    Most Mysterious Murders)
  • Isle of Man
    Isle of Man

    The Isle of Man , or Mann , is a self-governing Crown dependency, located in the Irish Sea at the geographical centre of the British Isles....
    , UK - Ireland
    Ireland

    Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
     (    Waking Ned
    Waking Ned

    Waking Ned, titled Waking Ned Devine in North America, is a 1998 in film comedy film starring Ian Bannen, David Kelly and Fionnula Flanagan....
    )
  • Iceland
    Iceland

    Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....
     - Himalayas
    Himalayas

    The Himalaya Range or Himalayas for short , meaning "abode of snow" ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau....
     (    Batman Begins
    Batman Begins

    Batman Begins is a 2005 superhero film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Christian Bale as Batman, along with Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Ken Watanabe, Tom Wilkinson, and Rutger Hauer....
    ), and Iwo Jima
    Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima is an island of the Japanese Volcano Islands chain, which makes up the southern end of the Ogasawara Islands. The island is located 1,200 kilometers south of mainland Tokyo and administered as part of Bonin Islands, one of eight villages of Tokyo....
      (    Flags of Our Fathers
    Flags of Our Fathers (film)

    Flags of Our Fathers is a 2006 in film Cinema of the United States war film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles, Jr....
    )
  • Lincoln Cathedral
    Lincoln Cathedral

    Lincoln Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Lincoln, Lincolnshire in England and seat of the Diocese of Lincoln in the Church of England....
    , UK - Westminster Abbey
    Westminster Abbey

    The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to popularly and informally as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic architecture Church , in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster....
     (    The Da Vinci Code
    The Da Vinci Code (film)

    The Da Vinci Code is a 2006 in film feature film, which is based on the bestselling 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. It was one of the most anticipated films of 2006, and was previewed at the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2006....
    )
  • Liverpool
    Liverpool

    Liverpool [] is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a History of borough status in England and Wales in 1207 and was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1880....
    , UK - Moscow, Russia (    Yentl
    Yentl

    Yentl is a play by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer.Based on Singer's short story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy," it centers on a young girl who defies tradition by discussing and debating Jewish law and theology with her rabbi father....
    , The Hunt for Red October)
  • Long Beach, California
    Los Cerritos, Long Beach, California

    Los Cerritos is a neighborhood of approximately 700 homes and 2,000 residents located in Long Beach, California, United States. Established in 1906, Los Cerritos Neighborhood has long served the Cinema of the United States of Los Angeles and was one of three finalists in the 2007 Neighborhood of the Year national competition....
     - Various movies
  • Madrid
    Madrid

    Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
    , Spain - Moscow, Russia (    Doctor Zhivago
    Doctor Zhivago (1965 film)

    Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 in film Cinema of the United States epic film or drama film-romance film-war film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak....
    )
  • Malta
    Malta

    Malta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed country European microstates microstate in the European Union....
     - Ancient Sparta
    Sparta

    Sparta was a city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the Eurotas River in the southern part of the Peloponnese. From circa 650 BC it rose to become the dominant military power in the region and as such was recognized as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during the Greco-Persian Wars....
     (    Troy
    Troy (film)

    Troy is an epic film released on May 14, 2004, concerning the Trojan War. It is loosely based on Homer's Iliad, but includes material from Virgil's Aeneid and other sources, and frequently diverges from myth....
    ); Ancient Rome
    Rome

    Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
     (    Gladiator); Rome
    Rome

    Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
    , Beirut
    Beirut

    Beirut is the Capital and largest city of Lebanon with a population of over 2.1 million as of 2007. Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's coastline with the Mediterranean sea, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport and also forms the Beirut District area, which consists of the city and its suburbs....
    , Cyprus
    Cyprus

    Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, south of Turkey and north of Egypt....
    , Tel Aviv
    Tel Aviv

    Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
    , Athens
    Athens

    Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
     (    Munich
    Munich (film)

    Munich is a 2005 in film fictional film about the Israeli government's secret retaliation after the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes by Black September gunmen....
    ); Sweethaven (    Popeye
    Popeye (film)

    Popeye is a 1980 in film live-action film directed by Robert Altman and adapted from E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre comic strip. The screenplay by Jules Feiffer was based directly on Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye the Sailor, a hardcover reprint collection of 1936-37 Segar strips published in 1971 by Woody Gelman's Nostalgia Press...
    )
  • Manchester
    Manchester

    Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
    , UK - New York (    Alfie
    Alfie

    Alfie is a 1966 in film British film starring Michael Caine. It is an adaptation by Bill Naughton of his own novel and Play of the same name....
     (2004))
  • Melbourne
    Melbourne

    Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
    , Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
     - London, New York City (    Queen of the Damned
    Queen of the Damned (film)

    Queen of the Damned is a 2002 in film film adaptation of the third novel of Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles series, The Queen of the Damned, although the film contained many plot elements from that novel's predecessor, The Vampire Lestat....
    )
  • New Zealand
    New Zealand

    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
     - Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
     (    The Last Samurai
    The Last Samurai

    The Last Samurai is a 2003 drama film/war film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay based on a story by John Logan ....
    )
  • Oxford
    Oxford

    Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
    , UK - The Republic of China
    China

    China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
     (    Spy Game)
  • Prague
    Prague

    Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....
    , Czech Republic
    Czech Republic

    The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
     - Vienna
    Vienna

    Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
    , Austria
    Austria

    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
     (    Amadeus
    Amadeus (film)

    Amadeus is a 1984 in film drama film directed by Milo? Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Based on Shaffer's stage play Amadeus, the film is based loosely on the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers who lived in Vienna, Austria, during the later half of the 18th century....
     (1984)), Zürich
    Zürich

    Z?rich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Z?rich. The city is Switzerland's main commercial and cultural centre and sometimes called the Cultural Capital of Switzerland, the political capital of Switzerland being Berne....
    , Switzerland
    Switzerland

    Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
     (    The Bourne Identity (2002))
  • Romania
    Romania

    Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
     - Los Angeles (    Seed of Chucky
    Seed of Chucky

    Seed of Chucky is a 2004 in film Comedy-horror which is the fifth entry in the popular Child's Play . Seed of Chucky follows the events of Bride of Chucky and stars Jennifer Tilly , Billy Boyd , and Brad Dourif ....
    )
  • Roslyn
    Roslyn, Washington

    Roslyn is a city in Kittitas County, Washington, Washington, United States. The population was 1,017 at the 2000 United States Census....
    , USA - Cicely, Alaska
    Alaska

    Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
     (    Northern Exposure
    Northern Exposure

    Northern Exposure is a dramedy Television series. It was created by Joshua Brand-John Falsey Productions, which was recognized with a rare pair of consecutive Peabody Awards in 1991?92 for the show's "depict[ion] in a comedic and often poetic way, [of] the cultural clash between a transplanted New York doctor and the townspeople of fictio...
    )
  • Royal Horticultural Hall, London, UK - interior Berlin Tempelhof Airport (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas....
    )
  • Seville
    Seville

    ||-||}Seville is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of Andalusia and of the province of Seville ....
    , Spain - Havana
    Havana

    Havana is the capital city, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city is one of the 14 Provinces of Cuba. The city/province has 2.1 million inhabitants, and the urban area over 3.5 million, making Havana the largest city in both Cuba and the Caribbean....
    , Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
     (    Die Another Day
    Die Another Day

    Die Another Day is the twentieth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the fourth and last to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
    )
  • Slovakia
    Slovakia

    Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....
     - California (    Ravenous
    Ravenous

    Ravenous is a 1999 horror/drama film directed by Antonia Bird and starring Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle and Jeffrey Jones. The film revolves around cannibalism in 1840s California and some elements bear similarities to the story of the Donner Party and that of Alferd Packer....
    )
  • Wales
    Wales

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     - North Korea
    North Korea

    North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , is a state in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula....
     (    Die Another Day
    Die Another Day

    Die Another Day is the twentieth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the fourth and last to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
    )
  • St Pancras
    St Pancras

    St Pancras, St. Pancras or Saint Pancras may refer to:...
     Hotel, London - Arkham Asylum
    Arkham Asylum

    |image = Arkham asylum.jpg|imagesize =|caption = Arkham Asylum as it appeared on ...
    , Gotham City
    Gotham City

    Gotham City is a fictional city appearing in DC Comics, and is best known as the home of Batman. Batman's place of residence was first identified as Gotham City in Batman #4 ....
     (    Batman Begins
    Batman Begins

    Batman Begins is a 2005 superhero film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Christian Bale as Batman, along with Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Ken Watanabe, Tom Wilkinson, and Rutger Hauer....
    )
  • Saint Petersburg
    Saint Petersburg

    Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
    , Russia - Berlin, Germany (    Der Untergang (Downfall))
  • Sydney
    Sydney

    Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
    , Australia - Metropolis
    Metropolis (comics)

    Metropolis is a fictional city that appears in comic books published by DC Comics, and is the home of Superman. Metropolis first appeared by name in Action Comics #16, in 1939....
     (    Superman Returns
    Superman Returns

    Superman Returns is a 2006 superhero film based on the DC Comics character Superman. Directed by Bryan Singer, the film stars Brandon Routh as Superman, as well as Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, James Marsden and Parker Posey....
     (2006))
  • Thailand
    Thailand

    The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....
     - Various locations around Thailand
    List of films that use Thailand as a location

    Dozens of foreign films been shot in Thailand, with the kingdom either playing itself or standing in for a neighboring country, such as Vietnam or Cambodia....
     have been used for many films depicting the Vietnam War
    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina Wars, the Vietnam Conflict, or often in Vietnam the American War occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1959 to April 30, 1975....
     era, including     The Deer Hunter
    The Deer Hunter

    The Deer Hunter is a War film drama film about a trio of Russian American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War....
    , The Killing Fields
    The Killing Fields (film)

    The Killing Fields is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom feature film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.It is based on the experiences of three journalists: Dith Pran, a Cambodian, Sydney Schanberg, an American, and Jon Swain, a journalist from the UK....
    , Casualties of War
    Casualties of War

    Casualties of War is a 1989 war movie drama movie about the Vietnam War, starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn. It was directed by Brian De Palma, with a screenplay by David Rabe based on actual events that took place in 1966....
    , Air America
    Air America (film)

    Air America is a 1990 film starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. as Air America aviator, during the Vietnam War, flying missions in Laos....
     and Operation Dumbo Drop
    Operation Dumbo Drop

    Operation Dumbo Drop is a 1995 live-action Film. It is loosely based on true events, as related by MAJ Jim Morris which involved the U.S. Special Forces in 1968, in the tiny South Vietnamese village of Dak Nhe....
    .
  • Tilbury Docks
    Port of Tilbury

    The Port of Tilbury is located on the River Thames at Tilbury in Essex, England. It is the principal port for London; as well as being the main United Kingdom port for the handling the importation of paper....
    , Essex
    Essex

    Essex is a counties of England in the East of England England. The county town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common near the village of Langley, Essex, close to the Hertfordshire border, which reaches ....
    , UK - Gotham Harbour (    Batman Begins)
  • Toronto
    Toronto

    Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
    , Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
     - are depicted, but Chicago
    Chicago

    Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
     and New York City
    New York City

    The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
     are most often represented.
  • Valles Caldera, New Mexico
    New Mexico

    New Mexico is a U. S. State located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. Inhabited by Native Americans in the United States populations for many centuries, it has also has been part of the Spanish Empire viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S....
     - various
  • Vancouver, Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
     - depicting various places but often Washington
    Washington

    Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute....
     state, especially Seattle
    Seattle, Washington

    Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
  • Vienna
    Vienna

    Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
    , Austria
    Austria

    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
     - Bratislava
    Bratislava

    Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 427,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River....
    , Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia

    Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 until 1992 . On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia....
     (    The Living Daylights
    The Living Daylights

    The Living Daylights is the fifteenth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the first to star Timothy Dalton as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
    )
  • Winnetka, Illinois
    Winnetka, Illinois

    Winnetka is a very affluent village located approximately 19 mi north of downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, Illinois. It has a population of 12,419....
     - Chicago, Illinois (    Home Alone
    Home Alone

    Home Alone is a 1990 in film List of Christmas films written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus . The film features Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for their Christmas vacation....
    )


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See also

  • Location Manager
    Location manager

    The Location Department is an often forgotten yet integral department in the creation of a motion picture. Like the Production Coordinator, it is only when things go wrong that the Location Manager gets any recognition....
    , the person responsible for the locations department
  • Location scouting
    Location scouting

    Location scouting is a vital process in the pre-production stage of filmmaking and commercial photography. Once scriptwriters, Film_producer or Film_director have decided what general kind of scenery they require for the various parts of their work that is shot outside of the studio, a search is begun for a suitable place or "Filming locatio...
    , filming location
  • Location library
    Location library

    A location library or location archive is a collection of visual and reference information, usually organized by a serial numbering system, descriptive keywords, geographic location of Filming location, or places that might be used for filmmaking or photography....
    , location library
  • Film production, film production


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