South Africa has been a great place for filmmaking for many years, but it still remains a novelty to find an international film or a major series that really went on the streets of Cape Town or Johannesburg. It was with great excitement that South African moviegoers welcomed the release of the Safe House earlier this year, and this is not the only film that has been filmed on location in Cape Town lately.
Safe house - This blockbuster box office hit the stars Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds and was filmed on and around Cape Town. The story of a young CIA agent on the run, when he tries to care for a fugitive in a safe house, provides many opportunities for Mother City as conditions. Capetonians get an extra thrill from the location, discovering their familiar streets and mountains, but due to the fact that he scored a huge 40.2 million dollars the first weekend after the release, he again rushed to the bush all over the world.
chronicle “Here Cape Town doubles Seattle, since three teenagers with supernatural powers find their life spinning out of control.” The sci-fi thriller is removed, as if it were found - frames collected together with video recordings. In addition to being filmed on the site on the streets of Cape Town, the production used kits built at the studio studio in Cape Town Film Studio. Cars with the left rudder were sent specifically for the production and inventive special effects created to demonstrate the effects of the characters. telekinetic forces crush the machine.
Dark tide this is another 2012 release, shot on location in and around Cape Town. It uses the power and drama of the ocean, like the stars of Halle Berry, as a diving instructor who returns to work in the deep waters after an almost fatal encounter with a shark. The crew shot a small boat with real great white sharks in False Bay. Studio shooting in a scuba tank was completed at Pinewood Studios in the UK. The film was released in March 2012 and did not receive very good critical reviews for both the plot and the acting, but everyone agrees that the landscape is stunning, as you expect the film, shot from the Cape Peninsula, will become the backdrop .
And one more thing that you can pay attention to, although not yet released, is the third episode of the military drama Strike Back, which was filmed in various places in South Africa earlier this year.
