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n 1981, when Colin and Keira Welland won the Best Knightley, and then came the Screenplay Oscar for explosion: , Idris , he Elba, , quotedI Paul Revere: “The , Rosamund Pike British are coming!” he and , to name crowed, holding his golden but a few. trophy aloft. He was a little And still they come: Eddie ahead of his time. For the Redmayne in The Theory next 25 years, you’d only find of Everything and Lily a Brit in a blockbuster when James in Cinderella show they needed a villain who the promise in the younger could make “I’m going to cut generation. your heart out with a spoon” The same is true in sound like Shakespeare! TV, from Hugh Laurie in In the last decade, House to however, we have developed in Homeland and Hayley an unprecedented talent pool Atwell in Agent Carter. of 20-odd young British stars Behind the camera, too, who can “open” a big film. UK know-how is enabling The movement started with more and more major Ewan McGregor, movies. In the last two years

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moorland. WHERE But it’s only in the last few years that the UK has HISTORY gone all-out to welcome international productions. Hundreds of millions have MEETS THE been spent equipping both Pinewood and Warner BIG SCREEN Bros. Studios Leavesden (see p. 14) for the biggest blockbusters. And there DOVER CASTLE AS SEEN IN DISNEY’S are now official bodies for FILM ‘INTO THE WOODS’ London, , , and Northern specifically tasked with assisting productions. “There are three things we do,” explains Kaye Elliott, Head of Production Services STONEHENGE KENWOOD AS FEATURED IN BBC’S ‘DR WHO’ ‘’ at Creative England. “We

Benedict Cumberbatch in promote the regions of England as a great place to film. We get involved winning Best Picture and at Warner Bros. Studios in production right from Best Actor among other Leavesden. “So Hollywood the earliest stages to wrap, awards. Our visual-effects came to England and finding locations, organising companies power countless Hollywood’s here, for me it’s permissions and supplying GOODRICH CASTLE OLD WARDOUR AS SEEN IN WARNER DOVER CASTLE IN AS SEEN IN MERLIN BRO’S ‘ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES’ BBC’S ‘WOLF HALL’ blockbusters. And whereas fantastic. I love it.” local crews. And we work

talented film-makers once on the ground to improve ‘Into the Woods’ 2014 ©The Walt Disney Company / ‘Wolf Hall’ 2015 ©BBC Worldwide had to get on a plane to WARM WELCOME the infrastructure and La La Land to seek fame Hollywood has long environment for filming in and fortune, now, like appreciated the beauty the regions via our ‘Film Guy Ritchie, they can buy and history of the UK. As Friendly Partnership’ To fi nd out more visit: a in London and still you will discover, the UK scheme with 290 different www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit make blockbusters such is uniquely varied in its local authorities and as and buildings and landscapes, services.” the upcoming The Man from stately homes to wild “There are stunts that From U.N.C.L.E. and his forthcoming King Arthur “So Hollywood came to England, epic. “I can’t believe it,” Guy it’s here. I love it” - Guy Ritchie

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“Visits to Abbey rose industry as a whole both to UK decision-makers and 28% after The Da Vinci Code” to international producers. “It’s not just a London phenomenon: London acts as a gateway to the rest of would have been impossible Overseas investment in the the UK. Yorkshire alone has 10 years ago,” adds Adrian UK by film productions 20 different film and TV Wootton, who heads up topped £1.2bn in 2014, and it productions at the moment.” Film London. “Like Tom is estimated that the overall Cruise landing a helicopter contribution to the economy HOT TICKETS in (see of UK screen content is £6 And if you screen it, they will p. 18) or a Fast & Furious billion a year, when you come. For visitors, films and .” factor in spin-off benefits TV series act like a for London’s a familiar such as tourism. the UK’s stately homes and sight now in Hollywood “There’s a real expansion landscapes. If you like what blockbusters, even if it does of the creative industries that you see on screen, you’ll love seem to get demolished a lot! just wasn’t there 10 or 15 it in real life. Summer’s just not summer years ago,” says Adrian, who “Film and TV is becoming without or a is also Chief Executive of the a bigger part of the tourist Marvel superhero racing British Film Commission, landscape,” says Adrian. through the capital’s streets. which champions the film “People want their pictures taken in front of the sets. The beauty of Devon’s coastline and beaches in has driven tourists there, and we will definitely see an increase to Cornwall after Poldark. Westminster Abbey didn’t want The Da Vinci Code to film there, but still had a 28% increase in visitors the following year!” In this magazine, you’ll discover all these places and more. So what are you waiting for? The UK may have become the hottest screen star around, but it’s Carey Mulligan in Far From The Madding Crowd laying out the red carpet

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HOGWARTS EXPRESS own close encounter with the huge clock pendulum, HAGRID'S HEAD Even the caged dragon in All in all, the Studio Then there’s the pièce de the Dementors: fi lm footage the Malfoy Manor drawing This starts in Creature Harry Potter and the Goblet Tour is a fi tting tribute to résistance, introduced in cunningly creates the illusion room, and the gigantic Magic Effects. Wait until you see the of Fire was animatronic, the franchise that not only March: the thoroughly real of a landscape rolling past the is Might monument animatronic Hagrid head – with an actual fl ame-thrower enthralled millions around Great Western Railway 4900 windows, so that you can built on top of , at 6′ 2″, was mounted in its throat. the world, but made British Class 5972 Olton Hall 4-6-0 test your acting skills alarmingly not tall enough for the half- fi lm and its talented crew locomotive and coal tender, on video when the realistic statues giant, so in wide shots they FITTING TRIBUTE members a byword for originally manufactured in Dementors fl y at of scared used a 6′ 10″ rugby player. Yes, Creature Effects is excellence. I now realise the 1937 and the same one that you. Muggles… Still not tall enough, so they defi nitely the highlight of only thing that would get conveyed Harry to Hogwarts Unbelievably, Make added stilted shoes, and stuck the Studio Tour. Or no, wait; you out of there in under two in the fi lms. It stands in a this is just sure to buy a gigantic animatronic head perhaps it’s the walk down hours is if you bumped into 20,000 sq. ft. recreation of the halfway yourself a on his shoulders. Amazing! Diagon Alley that follows, a Portkey. Platform 9¾, luggage trolleys point. And Butterbeer You’ll also fi nd a moving past Gringotts Wizarding The green-screen TM & © Warner Bros. and all, puffi ng out steam. I haven’t even experience in the mid- Hippogriff, a horrifi c moving Bank, Ollivanders wand Entertainment Inc. Visit the compartments in mentioned Harry’s point café, while and breathing shrunken shop and Weasleys’ Wizard Harry Potter Publishing Rights © JKR. the old-fashioned carriages, circular dormitory, the marvelling at the triple- Voldemort, the 18-foot spider Wheezes. Or then again, Harry Potter characters, names and decked out with key scenes spiral staircase with moving decker purple Knight Bus, to Aragog (which thankfully maybe it’s the vast 1:24 scale related indicia are trademarks of and © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. from the fi lms, or have your steps, Dumbledore’s offi ce, give new energy for Phase II. doesn’t move!) and a Basilisk. model of Hogwarts castle… All Rights Reserved.

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then used for a magnificent tower (the site was once an whaling ship in ’s airplane factory and airfield). Armorer: also called the In the Heart of the Sea. The scene is a hive of weapons master; a specialist We pass a workshop where activity, with the latest in the props department craftsmen create “Roman” set being erected for Guy who handles firearms and other weapons. sculptures out of Styrofoam, Ritchie’s forthcoming King and another filled with Arthur epic. Best boy: chief assistant to the merry hammering and With each production the gaffer or grip. drilling of carpenters. A creating an amazing array Breakdown artist: working small army goes into making of unique props, sets and in the costume department, every film (see box). costumes, it’s easy to see responsible for ageing and Finally, I get an aerial how eight Harry Potter films distressing clothes so they view of the whole impressive produced enough treasures look lived-in. arner Bros. a big-budget film. We whizz the underwater scenes in spread from the old control to fill the adjacent tour. Foley artist: creates sound Studio Tour round it, thrillingly, in a golf Kingsman: The Secret Service effects such as footsteps or London – buggy, just like in Hollywood! were shot. Four stages were D Stage water tank punches or slamming doors at Leavesden in post-synch, after filming. The Making We need it: it’s vast. There newly built this year: “We’ve Wof Harry Potter is unique are 13 sound stages, which are been constantly busy since Gaffer: chief lighting in being situated on the giant sound-proofed hangars. opening in 2012,” says Emily. technician. grounds of a working studio. We take a peek into D Stage, You only have to look at Greensman: part of the set “Sometimes the school parties home to one of the largest the list of productions filmed department; responsible for come out of there and see indoor water tanks, where at WBSL over the past three real or artificial plants. explosions from the filming years to see it’s already a Grip: lighting and rigging nearby!” says studio vice- favourite among Hollywood technicians. president Emily Stillman. directors. The 100-acre Python wrangler: more She’s agreed to take me backlot is so versatile prosaically called a cable on a tour of the Warner that alternative locations puller or utility sound Bros. Studios Leavesden, often aren’t needed. In technician; keeps sound normally closed to fact, Tom Cruise’s Edge cables tangle-free. visitors, into which of Tomorrow was shot Runner: all-purpose young Warner Bros. invested entirely at Leavesden helper, sometimes as unpaid £100 million after (with the exception of work experience. the Harry Potter films Trafalgar Square). A model ‘Spark’: popular term for wrapped, to get a glimpse of Paris was erected in a an electrician. of what it really takes to make Sound studio huge exterior tank that was

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COURTESYcourtesy OFof NORTHERNNortherN IRELANDirelaNd SCREENscreeN may have seen on screen, and invite you to come and experience them for yourself.vision in the UK (see p. 4), we here showcase a variety of stunning locations that you maximise and support the production of international feature filmto remit and a high-endwithagencynational Commission, thetele- Film British the association with mountainpeak,picturesque village to futuristic to cityscape, forest hours.withinfewallIn a ancient moorland, deserted to cliff windswept from shores: its between found in the following guide. W u fr sal ain te K lo ak a etariay iest o places of diversity extraordinary an packs also UK the nation, small a for But uh s Disney’s as such housescountlessseenin historical dramasturnedorintofairytales Georgiangrand and homesstatelycastles,imposingpalaces, noble themind to call may you UK, locations film the thinkofin you hen Cinderella Tee r al hs, n mr, o be to more, and these, all are There . uk locations 29/05/2015 10:24 18 FILM & TV uk locations

Isle of Skye: The upcoming Macbeth, starring : This stunning islet in Southern Wales is Black Park: Maleficent, Disney’s retelling of Sleeping Beauty Westminster: One shot of the historic Big Ben tower and the and , was shot in wonderful Skye. Numerous other the backdrop to upcoming thriller Take Down, about children who starring , was shot in these 500 acres of woodland sleek new London Eye facing each other is enough to evoke productions have used its spectacular vistas, such as Prometheus fi ght back when their school is taken hostage. Wales’ beaches also and lakes in Buckinghamshire. It's just one of the many fairy-tale London in a film. Recent shoots in Westminster include which was shot at the Old Man of Storr. feature in numerous fi lms as battle grounds. locations in England to inspire Hollywood. and Suffragette.

would have been possible! also praises Britain’s great all types of weather.” “There is no typical day, I outdoors. The capital, she says, is promise you,” says Sue. “You Derbyshire, she says, is a much easier to film in now work closely with the director stunning county, underused that Film London is there to and designer and realise their by film crews. When we help, and “incredibly rich” in vision. You have to work all kinds of locations: not just out what’s best to build on the famous landmarks, but blockbuster set in London for a team of fi ve, with the set, what’s best to shoot on “Last year, for also the council estates used than for Tom Cruise to land help of the British Film location. Then you go and take Tarzan, we in low-budget films. his helicopter triumphantly Commission, to pull it off. hundreds of photos, board “Some are fantastically in Trafalgar Square? The star They had to get the Mayor’s them up and present them.” recreated Africa designed, like Thamesmead, himself turned to Sue, the offi ce, Westminster Council Sue knows what can be where A Clockwork Orange fi lm’s location manager, fi xed and Transport for London done with , within the M25!” was filmed,” says Sue. “When I her with his determined stare, on board, because 74 bus having worked on the Harry did Love Actually, they wanted and switched on his million- routes had to be diverted; Potter films. “But it’s very iconic places; but when I did dollar smile: “You can do that, then the Ministry of Defence, hard for actors to act against a spoke, she had just spent the Dirty Pretty Things, Stephen t was during a planning can’t you, Sue?” he asked. the embassies, the National green screen, so locations are week filming in the Brecon Frears wanted bits of London meeting for Edge of “Everyone turned and Gallery, businesses… very important.” Beacons in south Wales. And no one knew. Last year, for Tomorrow that Sue looked at me,” recalls And all that is just for a In her 20 years in the she fell in love with Scotland Tarzan, we recreated Africa Quinn fi rst learned of Sue Quinn now. “It was single scene. Welcome to the profession, Sue has visited on the Harry Potter shoots. all within the M25! We put Ithe fi lm-makers’ vision for embarrassing, because I really world of the location manager, every single stately home in “It’s God’s own country,” she a beautiful boat on Virginia the closing scene. What fi ner didn’t know the answer!” without whom none of the the UK, and says they are enthuses. “Ben Nevis is just Water and made Ashridge DAvE LILEy, IsLEOfsky.cOm. cROWn cOpyRIgHt (2015) vIsIt WALEs VISIT WALES (2015) (2015) cOpyRIgHt COPYRIGHT cROWn CROWN IsLEOfsky.cOm. ISLEOFSKY.COM. LILEy, LILEY, DAvE DAVE climax to a military sci-fi It took three months guide on the following pages cEfAI CEFAI Of fILm LOnDOn/JOn OF FILM LONDON/JON cOuRtEsy COURTESY EngLAnD. ENGLAND. cREAtIvE CREATIVE “absolutely amazing”. She stunning when you see it in Estate look like Africa.”

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but not enter the farm near Meavy Stonehenge, Wiltshire at Ditsworthy Warren House. The prehistoric stone circle has witnessed few stranger sights Wells, than actor Erik Selvig naked but Antony House, Cornwall and ’s for his shoes and socks when

After ’s Alice in cult comedy takes filming : The Dark World. Wonderland came out in 2010, place in the sleepy town of Except, perhaps, for Game of Thrones visitor numbers at Antony Wells in Somerset, with Wells as addressing a House surged from 25,000 to Cathedral digitally erased. You fleet of alien spaceships from 100,000. Admire the formal can book into the Swan Hotel, atop its ancient stones. Spinal garden with its wonderful where super-cop Nic Angel Tap fans also cherish the flowers and modern sculptures, stayed. Mystical Glastonbury moment a tiny Stonehenge is and splendid portraits in the Tor is only a few miles away. lowered on to due to a house, including several by mix-up over feet and inches. Joshua Reynolds (Mar-Oct). Montacute Hall, Somerset o other TV series in recent years find the Haunted Forest at Tollymore The most spectacular of many West Bay, has aroused the same fevered Forest Park, and the Mourne Mountains, Dartmoor, Devon locations in the BBC’s historical The writer of Broadchurch devotion as Game of Thrones. which form the entrance to Vaes Dothrak , who directed drama Wolf Hall, Montacute describes it as “a love letter to It's gone beyond cult viewing: and inspired the Narnia novels. War Horse, said: “I have never Hall stands in for Henry VIII’s the Jurassic Coast”. Fans of the theN fourth season averaged 18.4 million To the north, the Ballygally Castle Hotel before been gifted with such an Greenwich Palace. It’s open to ITV series are as enamoured of viewers a week in the US alone – has started a Game of Thrones tea, abundance of natural beauty visitors, and you can even stay the towering cliffs and sandy a new HBO record. and sells pieces by the show’s as I experienced on Dartmoor.” in its Odcombe Lodge or South beaches as of the plot’s twists Ordinary mortals can’t visit jewellers Steensons. It’s a good Find the rustic settings around Lodge. Barrington Court, also and turns. Beach scenes and the Belfast set, so nearby base from which to explore Combestone Tor, Haytor and in Somerset, provided interiors some exteriors were filmed in Castle Ward, better known the rugged Causeway Coast. Ringmoor Down; you can visit for Cardinal Wolsey’s home. the very real town of West Bay. to fans as Winterfell, has Don’t miss the famed The Bull Hotel is where the cast become the key attraction. Dark Hedges, an avenue of stayed. The cliff-top murder hut The Clearsky Adventure twisted beech trees planted is at Eype, a mile west. Centre there offers archery in the 18th century: this lessons – in Thrones gear, is the King’s Road along Mapperton House, Dorset of course – and there are Game of Thrones, which Ayra escapes in Charlotte Bruus Christensen, also self-guided cycling tours Dark Hedges season two, disguised as a of the recent of nearby locations, such as the boy. On the northernmost point Far from the Madding Crowd, tree branch where Brienne discovers you will find the Iron Islands at says of Devon: “We worked three hanging bodies, or King Robert’s Ballintoy Harbour and Murlough Bay, with the scenery as a character procession route. In nearby Strangford while the Cushenden Caves and Larrybane just as much as Bathsheba or village, you can devour the King’s Banquet Headland stand in for the Stormlands. Gabriel Oak.” The house that in the Cuan guesthouse (25 July and A little further west lies Dragonstone Bathsheba (Carey Mulligan) 29 Aug, or by arrangement for groups of – the tiny temple of Mussenden – which inherits is Mapperton. The 20 or more) where many of the cast stayed. stands on a 120-foot-high cliff above Jacobean manor is open But it’s Northern Ireland’s natural Downhill Beach; and beyond that weekdays from 6 July to 7 wonders that make the Thrones world Binevenagh Mountain, which features in , and its romantic Antony House in Cornwall look so spectacular. A little south you’ll season five.

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Bourne Woods, Surrey here, as were Vanity Fair, The pretty woodland with its Les Misérables, The Mummy walking and cycling trails is and . where Thor reduced a rock Portsmouth, Hampshire giant to rubble, and where The astonishing opening to the frenetic opening battle in Les Misérables, featuring a vast Avengers: Age of Ultron was ship being pulled through filmed. It’s also where Russell storm-lashed waves, was filmed Crowe “unleashed hell” in , in No. 9 Dock at Portsmouth Gladiator and attacked a castle Buckinghamshire Historic Dockyard; Nelson’s in Robin Hood, and it appeared Discover the full story of the ship, HMS Victory, which is in Wolfman, Snow White and cracking of the Nazis’ Enigma Portsmouth’s chief attraction, is the Huntsman and War Horse. Code at Bletchley Park, now a glimpsed in the scene. museum. An exhibition about the Historic Dockyard, The Imitation Game, starring Petworth House, West Chatham, Kent Benedict Cumberbatch, is on Sussex This hugely popular attraction until 1 November. The place JMW Turner’s patron let him features as Poplar Dock in Call may look a little different to paint in the library at Petworth the Midwife; there’s a monthly you: filming really took place in House. Mr Turner star location tour. The upcoming Joyce Park in , says: “The shot Suffragette was partly shot (not open); of Turner painting a woman Chesham’s Church St stood in and two girls in the library is for the village of Bletchley. an exact replica, even colour- wise, of a watercolour he Gloucester Cathedral, painted called The Artist and his Admirers. To be in the very The cloisters double as the room where Turner painted corridors of Hogwarts in three this scene, to be inside that Harry Potter films, and the painting, was an astounding cathedral has also been seen privilege.” The 17th-century in Wolf Hall and Doctor Who. mansion contains the Gloucester Docks was used in The Imitation National Trust’s finest Game Alice in Wonderland: Through

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Letchworth/Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s comedy World’s End revolves around a literally apocalyptic pub crawl. Fancy recreating it? “Newton Haven” is actually Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City and, luckily for your liver, only some of the 12 featured are real (though names were changed). They are: the Peartree on Hollybush Lane; The Doctor’s Tonic on The dreaming spires of Church Road; the Two Willows on Howardsgate; the Parkway Bar on Parkway; the Three locations include Trinity Lane Grant made his feature debut, Magnets on Leys Avenue; the and the Arts School lecture while still at New College, in the Colonnade on Station Road; the theatre. Ely Cathedral, 15 miles Oxford-set Privileged, stripped Arena Tavern on Arena Parade; north, stood in for Westminster to the waist and carrying a deer and the Gardeners’ Arms on Abbey in The King’s Speech. over his shoulders. Wilbury Hills Road. Oxford, Oxfordshire Blenheim Palace, Downton Abbey has won tens of millions of fans with its very Cambridge, Cambridgeshire The dreaming spires of Oxford Oxfordshire British combination of high drama and high tea. Now Golden Eddie Redmayne captured the have been seen in countless Just north of Oxford, the vast Tours invites you to experience life in Downton for the day. hearts of movie-goers in The films including fantasy former home of Winston An air-conditioned Golden Tours coach, with free wi-fi, will Theory of Everything, and so blockbuster The Golden Churchill inspired the palace in drive you from central London to beautiful Oxfordshire. Your did the historic university town Compass, the Harry Potter Cinderella as well as furnishing first stop, to see how the upper-class lived, will be Blenheim of Cambridge. The spectacular series and The Riot Club, as the actual gardens. The ornate Palace. The building and landscaped gardens are like a fairytale May Ball was shot in beautiful well as the classic detective clock that counts down to – in fact, they were used as a location for Disney’s Cinderella. St John’s College, and other series Inspector Morse; Hugh midnight, however, is taken It’s a short drive to the Cotswolds village of Bampton, which from Cliveden House in doubles as Downton. The library stood in for Downton Cottage Buckinghamshire. The Liz Hospital, St. Mary’s Church became Downton Church, and Hurley-starring TV series Churchgate House gave its exterior to the Crawleys’ home! The Royals also filmed here. You’ll also see the Grantham Arms, where Tom Branson lodged. The tour continues with the village of Shilton. Have lunch, Wallingford, Oxfordshire if you choose, in The Red Lion public house, where Mr Bates The very British rural detective went to work after he left Downton Abbey in series two. drama Midsomer Murders is The final stop is Cogges Manor Farm (Yew Tree Farm). Learn still going strong after 17 years. about the storyline between Charles Blake and Lady Mary, and The town of Causton is filmed take tea in the cow shed Cafe at Cogges before exploring the mostly in the pretty, riverside house and farm buildings where the “pig scene” was shot. Wallingford – where Miss Then it’s back to London in time for dinner. The tour may Marple creator be over, but the memories, and the photos, will last a lifetime. also lived and worked. Other The Downton Abbey Filming Locations and Blenheim locations include Palace tour costs from £74. See www.goldentours.com

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with . Adults will liverpool, Merseyside the iconic Rovers Return pub. enjoy the history and the 1,000 Liverpool is still best known With the BBC having relocated acres of grounds; kids can take for . Nowhere Boy, to Manchester, expect many a land train to the adventure about John Lennon’s early life, more dramas set there to rival playground by the lake. used Sacred Heart Catholic the brilliant time-travel police College for school scenes, series Life on Mars. The Canal hen Aidan Turner took off Land’s End, provides clear waters and Haddon Hall, Derbyshire though Lennon’s real home on Street area, the premier LGBT his shirt to scythe a fi eld terrifi c views from the South West Coast Haddon Hall, much of which Menlove Avenue, which is open centre outside London, was in Poldark, it unleashed Path. Levant Mine, which uniquely retains was built in the 12th century, to visit, was not practical for made famous by TV’s Queer As a hormonal surge unseen the original steam-powered bream engine is perhaps England’s finest filming. Liverpool is the UK’s Folk and the recent Cucumber. Win Britain since Mr Darcy emerged on-site, stood in for Tressiders fortified medieval manor house. most filmed city after London, dripping from the water Rolling Mill, while the dramatic It has an imposing crenelated its varied architecture often Wollaton Hall, in Pride and Prejudice. clifftop Owls and Crowns entrance, complete with doubling for other world cities. nottinghamshire

Viewers may not be able to mines of Bottalack became gargoyles, and a 14th-century Mentmore Towers in make hay with Poldark’s the family mine Poldark Banqueting Hall’ with minstrels’ Manchester, Greater Buckinghamshire was Wayne star, but they can tread tries to resurrect. More gallery. It was Thornfield’ both Manchester Manor in Batman Begins, but the ground his feet have engine houses perch in the 2011 Jane Eyre with Fans of Coronation Street can the Dark Knight films relocated touched. Cornwall is atop the cliffs at St Michael Fassbender and Franco visit the soap opera’s set until to Wollaton Hall, the design of braced for an infl ux Agnes Head, used Zeffirelli’s 1996 film; but to fans 31 December, including room which was based on the earlier of fans, particularly as Nampara Valley. of The Princess Bride, it is sets opened for the first time building. (See London section after the series airs in North and inland, Humperdinck’s castle. to the public in April 2014, and for the Osterley Park House America in June. visit wild Bodmin The Cornish coast looks Moor, with its standing as ravishing in Poldark as Poldark stones and medieval farms, Downton Abbey, its star: in fact, during fi lming a spectacular setting for Highclere Castle skies were too blue, and clouds Poldark’s cottage and riding scenes. had to be digitally added. The dramatic As for Truro, though well worth a visit, shipwreck scene was shot at Church you’ll seek key sights in vain: those scenes Cove, Gunwalloe. Porthgwarra Cove, near were fi lmed in Corsham in Wiltshire.

Hatfi eld House, writing ITV hit Downton Giant Slayer, Da Vinci’s Hertfordshire Abbey. Book in advance: it’s Demons, Merlin and Atlantis. The childhood home of Queen open only 60 to 70 days a year, Caves were used in Elizabeth I features in period and very popular. It’s possible Doctor Who, and Symonds Yat dramas such as Elizabeth: The to stay at the London Lodge, at Rock viewpoint was in Harry Golden Age, and was home to the entrance to Highclere Park, Potter and the Deathly Hallows. ’s Batman and but in practice it’s booked up Angelina Jolie’s Lara Croft: until 2016. Instead try the Tomb Raider. As well as former coach house, now the visiting the house, gardens, Carnarvon Arms hotel. woodlands and farm (Wed- Sun), on most Friday evenings The , Castle Howard, Yorkshire you can book for a medieval Gloucestershire Although the vast Castle banquet in the Great Hall. The ancient Forest of Dean Howard is often seen on the contains the gnarled and twisty screen, it will forever be Highclere Castle, Berkshire Puzzlewood, which inspired synonymous with Brideshead , a family friend Tolkien. The new Star Wars Revisited: it was used both in of the resident Carnarvons, had movie, out in December, was the iconic 1981 TV series with

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Glenfinnan Viaduct made in the driving sequence is of the Isle of Skye famous by the film series. peaks of Buachaille Etive Mor VisitScotland Chairman and Buachaille Etive Beag, seen Mike Cantlay says that “Skye Doune Castle from the A82. The Highlands’ possesses an ethereal, out-of- Doune Castle, near Stirling, rugged beauty has graced many this-world quality”, so it’s no features in time-travelling TV a film, most memorably Mel surprise to see it as an alien romance Outlander, but will Gibson’s Braveheart. landscape in Alien prequel forever be known for John Prometheus. Most striking Cleese taunting King Arthur Rowchoish bothy is the huge monolith dubbed with “Your mother was a The unsettling sci-fi film Under the Old Man of Storr (p. 18). hamster and your father the Skin may not be a great ad smelled of elderberries” for Glasgow, but the rural Edinburgh in Monty Python and the Holy scenes are breathtaking. The Picturesque Edinburgh is Grail. Ex-Python Terry Jones beach where closely associated with Danny has voiced a hilarious audio attacks a young swimmer is in Boyle’s and guide, and the gift shop is full Auchmithie, and the ruined , and provided of Python goodies. castle she visits is Tantallon. spectacular panoramic shots in Rowchoish bothy, the hut in the 2011 romance One Day, which Glencoe woods she sleeps in, is part of a ends with Anne Hathaway high The last James Bond movie, network of shelters for walkers, above the city on Arthur’s Seat. Macbeth, Castle Skyfall, climaxes in beautiful and is situated off the eastern It’s actually an extinct volcano,

BamBurgh is Nick mccaNN BamBurgh Glencoe. The stunning scenery shore of Loch Lomond. and an hour’s hike to the top.

interiors.) On 30 August, beauty of her native Lake Wollaton Hall hosts a screening District. Visit her home at Hill of The Dark Knight Rises! Top, now a Potter museum; Yew Tree Farm, which stood in Bamburgh Castle, for Hill Top in the film, now a Glenfinnan viaduct Northumberland B&B and tea room; the Beatrix To fully recreate Harry Potter’s This huge, brooding castle is a Potter Gallery in Hawkshead; trips to Hogwarts, take the he UK is a big draw (sorry) for for the fictional DunBroch Castle to an key location in the upcoming and the World of Jacobite steam train along the animators, right back to Peter Pan outpost by the sea. The haunting Calanais Macbeth film starring Michael Attraction in Bowness-on- West Highland line (May to and 101 Dalmatians. In recent Standing Stones, on the Isle of Lewis, Fassbender. It also featured in Windermere. Outdoor locations 21 October). Starting near Ben years, Cars 2 climaxed with found their way directly into the Harry Potter, and include Keswick and Deerwater, Nevis, the highest mountain in Ta chase around Buckingham film, and the wild Glen Affric, Polanski’s Macbeth. Coniston and Tarn Hows, Britain, and finishing in Mallaig Palace roundabout and down 15 miles from Loch Ness, Loughrigg, and Loweswater. Bay, it crosses the 21-arch Whitehall, and Brave was inspired its landscapes. Alnwick Castle, influenced by the Pixar Another animated Northumberland Hogwarts Express from team’s trip to Scotland. favourite, Shaun the This imposing castle doubled as the Harry Potter films, Glenfinnan Viaduct “We took photographs Sheep, thinks Britain Hogwarts in the first two Harry and video, sketched and is so baa-rilliant he Potter films, and featured in the wrote stories,” said Brave’s agreed to be a mascot 2014 special of producer, Katherine for UK holidays (www. Calanais Standing Stones, Downton Abbey. It is currently Sarafian. “We brought on the Isle of Lewis inspired holidaysathomearegreat. hosting an exhibition of everything back and spread the animation Brave com). Visit the ewe-nique photography, costumes and it all out, loaded it into our Shaun the Sheep Experience in props from the Downton shoot. computers. We worked really hard Land’s End; join in the Shaun the to bring the magic, beauty and ruggedness Sheep Championsheeps at Marsh Farm Hill top, Cumbria of Scotland to life.” in Essex (peak days only); and find all 70

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Cardiff, south Wales Other Welsh locations Russell T Davies, the Welsh- New Quay was seen in the born writer/producer who Dylan Thomas film The Edge rebooted Doctor Who in 2005, of Love, and inspired his poem Henrhyd Falls, Brecon insisted on it being filmed in Under Milkwood; Margam Park Beacons Cardiff. Visit the recently in Neath Port Talbot is in US TV There has been such a surge of regenerated Doctor Who series Da Vinci’s Demons; visitors on the Nant Llech Trail Experience, which offers an Aberystwyth is home to Welsh to Henrhyd Falls that, this year, Interactive Experience and an detective drama Hinterland a series of steps and a 40-metre Exhibition Hall with the world’s (or Y Gwyll); Freshwater West boardwalk were added. That’s largest collection of Whovian beach in Pembrokeshire is because the 90-foot wall of memorabilia. The city, with its where Shell Cottage was built water, which you really can spectacular Millennium Centre for Harry Potter and the walk behind, marks the and busy waterfront, also Deathly Hallows; and the entrance to the bat cave in hosted and hotel-village of Portmeirion The Dark Knight Rises. Sherlock. Geek heaven! in Snowdonia is forever synonymous with cult TV thriller The Prisoner. Doctor Who Experience, Cardiff

Paddington train station Paddington is out now on DVD

Coca-Cola London Eye The Fantastic Four (2007) The British Museum however, feature the real Train stations stopped the London Eye falling The British Museum gave the Temple Church, historic home The best-known train station into a whirlpool, but it was later climax to Hitchcock’s Blackmail of the Knights Templar. in cinema must be King’s Cross, smashed by a giant robot in The way back in 1929, and featured where you will now find a Day the Earth Stopped (2008) in the Mummy series. Last year Victoria and Albert Museum Harry Potter shop at Platform and blown up in GI Joe: it starred in Night at the This ornate, 51,000-square- 9¾: buy T-shirts, jewellery, Retaliation (2013). Luckily for Museum: Secret of the Tomb, metre museum has been used toys, even wands. Paddington the 3.5 million visitors a year in which exhibits come to life. in dance comedy Cuban Fury Station gave its name to a little that make it the UK’s leading But although the museum is big and ’s thriller lost bear found there, in the paid tourist attraction, it’s still on Egyptian artefacts, many Trance, but most impressively highest-grossing non- standing strong! elements in the film are its Cast Courts gallery doubled Hollywood family film ever, and invented, from the triceratops for Paris in ’s he has his own shop in the Millennium Bridge skeleton to the nine-headed Hugo, starring Jude Law. station as well. Waterloo Crossing the Millennium Bridge Chinese snake demon. Station featured in The Bourne from to St Paul’s, Natural History Museum Ultimatum. you’ll be impressed by its sleek Westminster Abbey The interiors are spectacular modern beauty. The makers of The spectacular church in enough to be an intergalactic Guardians of the Galaxy found which monarchs are crowned is space palace in Jupiter its design so far-out that they still better known by some from Ascending, which used the superimposed it into an alien The Da Vinci Code: they will Zoology basement corridor and city. It was dubbed “the bendy seek out Isaac Newton’s tomb, the Old General Herbarium, bridge” at launch, when teething and the octagonal Chapter and had Channing Tatum troubles caused it to sway; in House where the climax plays roller-skating into the main Harry Potter and the Half- out. The film actually used Hintze Hall. Paddington was Harry Potter shop 3 Blood Prince, the Dementors Lincoln Cathedral as Abbey also nearly killed and stuffed at Platform 9 /4 twist it like a pretzel until it authorities deemed the book here by a villainous employee,

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espite his Scottish origins, if the immortal line “The name’s Bond, you want to follow in James James Bond” in Dr. No. Bond’s immaculately shod Prefer something more active? footsteps, there is no place Recreate the jet pack from Thunderball betterD than London. Every screen Bond in Surrey Docks with Jetlev-Flyer UK, since has had his shirts or take a speedboat down the Thames: tailor-made at Turnbull & Asser, in Thames Rib Experience offers a Jermyn Street. After they first Bond-themed Ultimate MI6 Spy measured , he Experience. You can even bulked up so much prior relive the moment when CONVENIENT RETURN TRANSFERS TO to filming Casino Royale drops WARNER BROS. STUDIO TOUR LONDON that they had to fly a from a hot-air balloon tailor out to Barbados for on to the roof of the WITH GOLDEN TOURS an emergency refitting! Millennium Dome – it’s The Studio Tour offers visitors the chance to walk along Diagon Alley, step inside the Great Hall and delve into

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London, with exteriors filmed St Paul’s Cathedral in Chatham Historic Dockyard The Geometric in Kent (see South-East). You’ll Staircase of Wren's still want to visit this architectural The BBC's Sherlock magnificent store, which has masterpiece the world’s biggest denim doubled as the department, a huge shoe shop, Divination a food hall, and the first cinema Stairwell in in a department store. Harry Potter and the The Shard Prisoner of Although it’s the tallest building Azkaban, and in the , giving hosted a chase in visitors spectacular views of the Robert Downey Jr’s Geometric Staircase, capital, The Shard has done Sherlock Holmes. The St Paul's Cathedral little more than loom in the rival Sherlock, Benedict background of Hollywood Cumberbatch, obviously took movies to date. Perhaps it’s offence: St Paul’s is clearly Tower of London because Matt Smith’s Doctor visible when he blows up future Tom Cruise shot here by night Who has given everyone else a London in Star Trek: Into in Mission Impossible: Rogue pretty tough act to follow: Darkness. In Doctor Who, the Nation, out at the end of July, zooming up the outside on an marvellous dome opens up and as well as chasing down Fleet t doesn’t take much sleuthing to get regalia in nearby . antigravity motorbike. spews out flying Cybermen. Street and Piccadilly Circus. But on the trail of Sherlock Holmes, Speedy’s Café, at 187 North Gower Streer, star of the Robert Downey Jr fi lm near Euston Square tube station, doubles ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE series and the BBC’s modern-day as 221b in the BBC series. Fans fl ock there Iupdate with Benedict Cumberbatch. for a selfi e and a slap-up English breakfast. Claim your own piece of Take the The Sherlock Holmes Museum now Strangely, you can also fi nd Sherlock tour, walk in the proudly bears the famous number Holmes’s study just off Trafalgar Square footsteps of the 221b on Baker Street, although it is (which features in the BBC’s Blind nation’s biggest stars and find out what happens situated between numbers 237 and 241. Banker episode). The Sherlock Holmes TV HISTORY behind the scenes at the Set over three fl oors, it recreates how pub on Northumberland Street houses Ever wondered what it’s like to be in front of the camera or behind world’s most iconic Holmes’s boarding house might have the Festival of Britain’s Holmes display, a microphone? Do you think you could present the weather, read broadcasting company. looked in Victorian times, with the aid unchanged since 1957. Have a drink on the news or give acting a go in a live radio play? Now’s your chance of mannequins and props. You can even the roof terrace – Holmes was fond of to try; as the BBC opens its doors and invites you in. buy a Harris tweed deerstalker hat in the whisky and soda and the odd Burgundy gift shop next door. Both Downey Jr and – followed by dinner at Simpson’s-in-the- Cumberbatch can be seen in full Holmes Strand, his favourite restaurant.

St Bartholomew the Great Harvey Nichols Stoli in the green and purple To recreate Asgard for Thor’s Romeo and Juliet have no Champagne bar! Be quick: a dream sequence, The Avengers: greater love than do Eddy and feature fi lm is in the works. Age of Ultron turned to the Pats for “Harvey Nicks” in cult ancient stone pillars of this sit-com Absolutely Fabulous BROADCASTING HOUSE MEDIA CITY UK priory church, London’s oldest. – even if they did get their car Selfridges has moved on since Follow the lead of The One Show’s A-list guests and Salford is home to BBC Children’s TV, BBC Sport and put your feet up on the iconic sofa. See cutting-edge the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Blue Peter and BBC Founded as a monastery in clamped outside in one episode. 100 years ago, when the ITV technology in action in the international newsroom, Breakfast are filmed here; plus live radio broadcasting 1123, it has some of the fi nest You absolutely must, sweetie and PBS series Mr. Selfridge is and the radio theatre where concerts are recorded. from BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio 6 Music. Romanesque architecture in the darling, have a fabulous long set, so the interior of the great We have tours across the UK and they’re all unique. To book tickets and find out more, visitbbc.co.uk/showsandtours capital – and a rather nice café lunch at the 5th fl oor Café and department store he founded

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whatever remarkable sights the Gosford Park, Poirot, Emma, Doctor Who Tower of London has witnessed Downton Abbey, 24 and, most within its imposing stone walls recently, Belle. Except for the over a thousand years and planes passing overhead to more, none can have prepared Greenwich Heathrow, it’s hard to believe it for Miss Piggy’s wedding, in With the National Maritime you’re in London… or the 21st Muppets: Most Wanted. Museum, Royal Observatory century, for that matter! and Cutty Sark, Greenwich is Borough Market a must-visit. The old Royal Crystal Palace Loved for its delicious food, Naval College doubled for Paris A key race scene in Rush was Borough Market is also the in Les Misérables, 18th-century filmed here in south London: home of in both London in last year’s Belle, and James Hunt actually raced movies: her fl at is above The Cinderella’s palace in the recent here, though the track had to be Kenwood House Globe pub. Lock, Stock and Houses of Parliament Disney fi lm. It also hosted the recreated. The athletics track Two Smoking Barrels was The tower of Big Ben has been climactic smackdown in Thor: also witnessed ’s also fi lmed here. seen in countless fi lms; the The Dark World. Just don’t try classic line, “You were only Osterley Park and House and there is a real secret Peter Capaldi incarnation of to follow Thor’s tube journey: supposed to blow the bloody Could there be a more perfect passage behind a bookcase, Trafalgar Square Doctor Who even found an irate Greenwich is NOT three stops doors off!”, in The Italian Job. choice for Wayne Manor’s through which Batman and Have a drink up in the Vista dinosaur pacing up and down from Charing Cross! Crystal Palace Park has surreal interiors in The Dark Knight Alfred enter the bat cave. Other rooftop bar at The Trafalgar in front of it. For the climax dinosaur sculptures – made in Rises? Not only is Osterley shoots include the recent BBC

hotel: it will give you the same of V for Vendetta (2008), two Kenwood House 1854, they are oddly shaped – to supremely elegant, frozen in Great Expectations, Gulliver’s kind of view that Matt Smith’s tanks, 400’ masked protestors In Notting Hill, this is where be seen in the upcoming film of time since the 1780s, but the Travels, , Doctor Who had when he and 200 police’ massed outside fi lms a Henry Martin Amis’s London Fields. grounds are inhabited by bats, Edge of Love and Miss Potter.

landed the TARDIS next to for three nights. Suffragette, James adaptation. It should Nelson’s Column, and Tom the upcoming fi lm starring have’ starred in Belle – the real Cruise when he touched down Carey Mulligan and Meryl Belle’ lived in Kenwood House, in a helicopter in Edge of Streep, was the fi rst ever to be and the portrait that inspired Tomorrow. Trafalgar Square granted permission to fi lm the fi lm hangs on the wall – but has also hosted numerous inside the Houses of it was shut for restoration. Now Bollywood fi lms, including Parliament. Tours are available that it’s open again, you can visit a spectacular dance number most Saturdays, plus weekdays the Robert Adam-designed villa in Salaam-e-Ishq (2007). during recesses. with its magnifi cent views over Hampstead Heath for free. Trafalgar Square as seen in The Edge of Tomorrow Rivoli Ballroom In The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America is tempted by a vision of Agent Carter back in the 1940s asking him to stay with her. He can’t, but you can – the scene is shot in the Rivoli Ballroom, London’s last surviving 1950s ballroom. Once a month, you can go to Jive Party, and Jacky’s Jukebox.

Syon Park This great west London house designed by Robert Adam, with The Edge of Tomorrow is out now on DVD & Blu-Ray its 200 acres of parks and its bbc, universal studios STUDIOS universal bbc, UNIVERSAL BBC, Great Conservatory, hosted bittner unna BITTNER UNNA Jörg JÖRG

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ridors and have conversations now Secret Cinema has recre- with new people. What we are ated a galaxy far, far away in doing is not just cinema, it’s London, for an interactive theatre, live music, art and screening of Star Wars: The Hot Tub Cinema food.” Empire Strikes Back. The ultimate ice-breaker: Secret Cinema creates a Imagine packing out three share a hot tub. In London, Bristol, Birmingham and whole world around a classic months of screenings of a Manchester. film, with massive sets built in 35-year-old film at £75 a disused buildings and a cast head! It’s no wonder other Sing-A-Long-A of 200 costumed actors. The entrepreneurs are getting Dress up and sing along to cult classics at the Prince Charles Cinema in London’s “We're not doing just cinema, it's Leicester Square. theatre, live music, art and food” Flickerama On the weekend of 14-16 August, a Cotswolds field hosts a festival of enhanced group turned an East End into experiential cinema (see screenings including a Back to the Future Prom Night. warehouse into a futuristic box). But, says Riggall, who to screen Blade also has plans to launch in Zombie Experiences Runner; transformed Alexan- the USA, the money is all Secret Cinema presents Star in your own 28 Days Back to the Future dra Palace into a desert out- invested in the shows. Later, in London, Droitwich, post with cavalry and camels “I could list the price of ev- Reading and Warrington. for Lawrence of Arabia; and erything, but that would spoil Outdoor (London) n 1984, cinema people a year, in the process last year attracted 80,000 the mystery. I’m not driving Summer Screen at Somerset seemed doomed: UK creating a whole new wave of people to an entire 1950s around in a Bentley; I don’t House; Rooftop Film Club attendances dropped experiential fi lm screenings. town, complete with a diner, even have a car – just an old in and Peckham to just 54 million. But “There’s a generation com- high school and clock tower, camper van that’s always Rye; Drive in Film Club at Icinemas fought back against ing through that is so scared for Back to the Future. And breaking down!” Alexandra Palace; Film at the threat of video, building of getting out of its comfort the Scoop, City Hall; Pop Up Screens and Nomad. the UK’s fi rst multiplex in zone,” says Riggall. “Every 1985. Attendances have since studio and label is owned by Outdoor (UK) ballooned to three times that The Empire these huge corporations – it Luna Cinema around the UK; Strikes Back historic low, but there’s a should be rock ‘n’ roll; there National Trust nights at stately new challenge: on-demand, should be mystery – but in- homes; Summer Nights in the North; Cult Screens in throwing fi lms and TV box or in-movie meals; IMAX; stead we’re being taking over Oxfordshire; Picnic Cinema sets on to your giant TV at 3D; 4D. One man is doing by giant shopping centres and in Cornwall; Screenfields the click of a mouse. more than most. In 10 years the whole world is becoming in Manchester; Outdoor So the fi lm industry is de- Fabien Riggall has taken like Dubai! and Moonlight Cinema in veloping experiences you just Secret Cinema from a small, “So we look to create envi- Newcastle; Sundown Cinema can’t get at home: refurbished secret club to a behemoth that ronments where people can Secret Cinema presents in the south-east. The Shawshank Redemption.

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