Tag: Filming

Chris Hemsworth flexes muscular form as sword-wielding Barbarian filming Clash of Clans commercial in LA with Christina Ricci, Ken Jeong, and more

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On Monday, Chris Hemsworth ditched his elegant, ornate-looking Thor costume in favor of a more cartoon-ish Barbarian get-up while on the Los Angeles set of a commercial for Clash of Clans.

The popular mobile app game was created by Finnish game developer Supercell back in 2012, and features a vast array of colorful characters like Barbarian.

The Australian 40-year-old flexed his Adonis-like, 6ft3in muscular physique while clad in a spikey shoulder sash, brown spiked wrist cuffs, a belted brown leather

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Irish Hollywood producer reveals the star-studded places he visited while filming in Ireland, from a property where Tiger Woods ‘caught a fish’ to a hotel beloved by George Clooney and Kim Kardashian

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Film producer Hal Roach once mischievously quipped that ‘you know it’s summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer’.

The capricious weather was a constant subject when I was making ‘Quintessentially Irish’ with Navan-born Pierce Brosnan, a film that is a lush valentine to everything great and Irish.

Here are some of the most spectacular locations encountered while filming it.

THE K CLUB 

It is a pleasant 30-minute journey from Dublin Airport to the luxurious hotel The K Club in

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Ewan McGregor says he and his wife needed an intimacy coordinator on set of new TV series – and they’re not the first Hollywood couple to find filming racy moments ‘uncomfortable’

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If both you and your significant other are actors, shooting an intimate scene seems like a great idea.

After all, who else would be a better scene partner? 

But it would appear that chemistry in the bedroom doesn’t necessarily translate to the technical, arduous love scene filming process on set – as many actors have revealed. 

Most recently, Ewan McGregor and wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead admitted to using an intimacy coordinator to help choreograph their sex scenes in forthcoming Paramount+

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Janice Dickinson SLAMS Billy Baldwin’s tirade against Sharon Stone as she DENIES the actress vowed to make him ‘fall so hard’ for her while filming Sliver: ‘That never happened!’

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Janice Dickinson has furiously denied Billy Baldwin’s claim that Sharon Stone vowed to make him ‘fall so hard’ for her while filming Sliver after he dragged her into their sensational spat.

Billy, 61, unleashed a tirade against Sharon, 66, after she claimed producer Robert Evans urged her to sleep with him to improve their onscreen chemistry in the 1993 movie – with the actor later accusing her of being ‘hurt he shunned her advances.’

In his fight back, Billy also

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EXCLUSIVE: Real-life Wolf of Wall Street’s ex-wife Nadine Macaluso reveals VERY frank advice she gave Margot Robbie to help her overcome terror about filming NUDE scene in movie about disgraced financier

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The real-life Wolf of Wall Street’s ex-wife has revealed the very frank advice she gave Margot Robbie after the actress voiced her horror at having to strip down for a nude scene while making a hit movie about the disgraced financier.

Nadine Macaluso, 56, who now works as a marriage counselor and family therapist in Florida, met Jordan Belfort, 61, when she was just 22 years old and working as a model.

The two soon became engulfed in a whirlwind

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CBD oil massages, a Michelin-listed restaurant and villas costing £6,900 a night: Inside The White Lotus’ most spectacular hotel yet as filming of third season starts at five-star Thai resort

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The first thing you notice on arrival at the grand, porticoed entrance of the Four Seasons Resort in Thailand’s Koh Samui are the monkeys. 

They are everywhere – stone monkey statues proffering welcome garlands, cheeky terracotta monkeys giving you the thumbs up from plant pots, laconic stone apes draped over walls, monkey water-features spouting streams into private villa pools.

So don’t be surprised to find that monkeys are a recurring theme in the third series of hit TV show The

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Sofia Coppola’s Path to Filming Gilded Adolescence

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When Eleanor Coppola went into labor with her third child, on May 14, 1971, at a hospital in Manhattan, her husband, the director Francis Ford Coppola, was on location in Harlem, shooting a scene for “The Godfather.” Hearing the news, he grabbed a camcorder from the set and raced over to capture the moment. “When they say, ‘It’s a girl,’ my dad gasps and nearly drops the camera,” Sofia Coppola told me recently, of her birth video. “My mom is

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Reel world to real life: From Harry Potter to Paddington, 50 movie filming locations in London revealed in fascinating and beautifully illustrated new book

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‘All the world’s a stage,’ penned William Shakespeare.

And were he alive today, he’d surely agree that all of London is a movie set – a notion underscored by fascinating new book The Walking Guide to London Film Sites, written by Colin Tough and beautifully illustrated by David Richardson (and available exclusively on Amazon).

The tome takes readers on a ‘cinematic journey through the bustling streets of London’, inviting them to ‘explore the backdrop of beloved cinematic favourites’.

Some

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A secret agent… and a TRAVEL AGENT: Lavish new book shows how Bond movies have been sparking wanderlust for decades with their amazing filming locations, from Scotland to Egypt

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This new book invites you to follow in ‘007’s well-shod footsteps to some of the world’s most heart-stopping and iconic settings’.

James Bond Destinations by Daniel Pembrey, published by Assouline, is lavishly illustrated with 233 images of the stunning filming locations that feature in the James Bond film franchise, based on the novels by Ian Fleming.

More than 100 locations have appeared in Bond films over the past 60 years, including Jamaica in 1962’s Dr No, the Egyptian city

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A Captain America filming location, a gigantic bedroom with its own bar and a beautiful underground pool: Inside England’s ‘best large hotel’ – on a stunning dockside site in Liverpool

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It’s on the site of a filming location for Captain America: The First Avenger – and it’s a marvel of a place to stay.

Titanic Hotel Liverpool won the Large Hotel of the Year gong at this year’s VisitEngland Awards for Excellence. And I can confirm that it was a worthy recipient, with the location’s Captain America cameo adding an extra dollop of allure.

I learned about the site’s cinematic pedigree from Andrew, a banterous and chatty taxi driver who

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