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Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Thor: The Dark World (2013)

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Thor: The Dark World (2013)

Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director: Alan Taylor
Screenplay: Christopher L. Yost, Christopher Markus
Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Eccleston, Jaimie Alexander, Zachary Levi, Ray Stevenson, Tadanobu Asano, Idris Elba, Rene Russo, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kat Dennings, Stellan Skarsgård, Alice Krige
Premiere: 22 October 2013

Filming locations:

Iceland

Norway

  • Lofoten islands (Asgard: aerial view)

United Kingdom

  • England
    • London
      • Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
      • Blythe House, 23 Blythe Road, West Kensington (Police station)
      • OXO Tower, South Bank, Lambeth (restaurant date scene)
      • Ironmonger Lane (Natalie Portman is driving narrow London street)
      • Charing Cross Underground Station, Charing Cross
      • Wembley
      • Borough Market, Southwark
      • Hayes, Hillingdon
    • Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
    • EMI, Blyth Road, Hayes, Middlesex
    • Surrey
      • Bourne Woods, Farnham
      • Shepperton Studios, Shepperton
      • Longcross Studios, Chobham Lane, Longcross
Skógafoss waterfall, Iceland
Skeiðarársandur from Skaftafell, Iceland

Thor: The Dark World (2013) trailer on IMDb

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Action, Adventure, Thriller

Die Another Day (2002)

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Die Another Day (2002)

Country: UK, USA
Language: English, Korean,  Cantonese, Spanish, German, Icelandic, Italian, Arabic
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Director: Lee Tamahori
Screenplay: Ian Fleming, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike, Toby Stephens, Rick Yune, Judi Dench, John Cleese, Michael Madsen, Will Yun Lee
Filming dates: 14 January – July 2002
Premiere: 11 November 2002

Filming locations:

Finland

Iceland

Norway

  • Vestlandet (Western Norway)
    • Sogn og Fjordane (environs: Ice Palace, ice car chase – additional filming)
      • Jostedal Glacier National Park, Luster, Sogn og Fjordane (environs: Ice Palace, ice car chase – additional filming)
  • Spitsbergen, Svalbard (ice cliffs – plate for CGI)

South Korea

Spain

  • Andalucía
    • Cádiz
      • Avenida Duque de Nájera, Puerta de La Caleta (Cuba)
      • Castillo de Santa Catalina (James Bond has a mojito drink with Jinx in Havana/Isla Los Organos, Cuba)
      • La Playa de la Caleta (Jinx’s beach in Cuba)
      • Campo del Sur (James Bond arrives in Cuba)
      • San Fernando (a road in Cuba)
      • La Caleta (Cuba)
      • El Balneario de La Palma y del Real, Avenida Duque de Nájera (James Bond’s hotel in Havana)
      • Castillo de San Sebastián, Avenida Duque de Nájera, Puerta de La Caleta (Cuban DNA Replacement Clinic – Jinx jumps backwards)

United Kingdom

  • England
    • London
      • Westminster
        • Buckingham Palace (exteriors: Gustave Grave’s parachute jump – in front of the palace)
        • Green Park (exteriors: Gustave Grave’s parachute jump – in front of the palace)
        • Houses of Parliament
        • Big Ben, Houses of Parliament
        • Westminster Bridge (Exterior: Vauxhall Cross railway station entrance, South end security booth)
      • Hackney
        • Kingsland House, Stoke Newington Road (interiors: cigar factory, Cuba)
        • Simpson House – 92 Stoke Newington Road (interiors: cigar factory, Cuba)
      • Vauxhall
        • Vauxhall Cross – 85 Albert Embankment (MI6 Headquarters – M’s Office)
        • SIS Headquarters – 85 Albert Embankment (MI6 Headquarters – M’s Office)
      • The Reform Club, Pall Mall, St. James’s (interiors: Blades Club Lobby)
      • London Heathrow Airport, London Borough of Hillingdon
      • River Thames
    • Buckinghamshire
      • Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath (studio, interiors: Ice Palace)
      • Pinewood Studios (Backlot, S Stage), Iver Heath (studio, opening sequence – hovercraft chase, interiors: Q’ workshop – archive storage, Ice palace set)
    • Cornwall
      • The Eden Project, St Austell (interiors: diamond mine in Iceland )
      • Holywell Bay, Newquay (opening sequence – Pukch’ong Coast, North Korea – beach scene – near Newquay)
    • Gloucestershire
      • Bourton-on-the-Water (ice car chase) 
      • Rissington Airfield, RAF Little Rissington (environs: Ice Palace, ice car chase – additional filming)
      • Upper Rissington (ice car chase – additional filming)
    • Hampshire
      • Hawley Woods, Farnborough (Korean Demilitarized Zone Bridge)
      • Eelmoor Tank Driving Range, Aldershot (opening sequence – hovercraft chase)
      • Army Driving Training Area, Aldershot (opening sequence – hovercraft chase/Bond handed over by North Koreans)
      • RAF Odiham (USA Army Command Bunker, Korea DMZ)
      • Aldershot (opening sequence – hovercraft chase)
    • Leavesden Studios, Leavesden, Hertfordshire (studio)
    • Kent
      • RAF Manston (Airbase North Korea)
      • London Manston Airport (Antonov cargo plane scenes)
    • Norfolk
      • Deepdale Farm, Burnham Deepdale (North Korean paddy fields; cars land in Korean paddy fields and Bond & Jinx fly by in military helicopter)
      • RAF Marham, King’s Lynn (exteriors-airbase)
    • Chinnor Cement Works, Chinnor, Oxfordshire (opening sequence – hovercraft chase – final stages)
  • Wales
    • Penbryn Beach, Penbryn, Cardigan (Bond and Jinx love scene at beach-house ending)

United States of America

  • Hawaii
    • Jaws, Peahi Beach, Maui (opening sequence – surfing scene: Pukch’ong Coast, North Korea)
    • North Shore, Maui (opening sequence – surfing scene: Pukch’ong Coast, North Korea)
Jökulsárlón – Glacier Lagoon, Iceland

Die Another Day (2002) trailer on IMDb

Drama, Sci-Fi

Downsizing (2017)

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Downsizing (2017)

Country: USA, Norway
Language: English, Norwegian, Spanish, French, Korean, Greek, Vietnamese
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Director: Alexander Payne
Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Stars: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Kristen Wiig, Hong Chau, Jason Sudeikis, Udo Kier, Neil Patrick Harris, Laura Dern
Release date: 30 August 2017

Filming locations:

Canada

  • Ontario
    • Toronto (location)
      • York University, North York
      • Aga Khan Museum, North York
      • CityPlace
      • Pinewood Toronto Studios, Port Lands (studio)
      • Revival 629, 629 Eastern Avenue (stage, Ccarp Shop)
    • Waterloo
      • Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Edvardsen Forskningsinstitutt)
    • Markham
    • Mississauga
      • University of Toronto Mississauga

Norway

  • Trollfjord, Lofoten
  • Bergen, Hordaland
  • Tysfjord (location)

Turkey

United States of America

  • California
    • Lancaster
    • Los Angeles (location)
  • Nebraska
    • Omaha (location)
Istanbul, Turkey

Downsizing (2017) trailer on IMDb

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Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Dune (2020)

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Dune (2020)

Country: USA, Hungary, Canada
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Screenplay: Eric Roth, Frank Herbert (novel)
Stars: Rebecca Ferguson, Timothée Chalamet, Jason Momoa
Filming dates: 18 March 2019 – July 2019
Release date: 17-18 December 2020

Filming locations:

Austria

Hungary

  • Budapest – Origo Film Studios

Jordan

  • Wadi Rum

Norway

  • Stadlandet (as planet Caladan)

Slovakia

United Arab Emirates

desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune

At Tal Moreeb dune, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dune (2020) on IMDb