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On Location with Julian Newby
by Boutique Media International
On Location is a companion podcast to the annual magazines Location International and Location California, bringing you inside stories from location shoots around the world. We talk to location managers, actors, producers and film commissioners, about the thrills – and the challenges – of filming On Location. On Location is presented by Julian Newby, editor of Location International and Location California magazines.
Episodes
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How Tom Hanks became weightless in Apollo 13. And other reasons why filmmakers choose to film in Houston, Texas
In this edition of the On Location podcast, Julian Newby meets Alfred Cervantes, vice-president and executive director of the Houston Film Commission. In his pre-film commission days Cervantes worked on a number of productions that featured Houston as a location, including 1995’s Apollo 13,...
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Surviving Earth: what our planet looked like thousands and even millions of years ago
As the series has finally come to our screens, we revisit the On Location podcast in which we spoke with Walking With Dinosaurs creator Tim Haines about his latest series Surviving Earth. He explains how technology has moved on since his epic Dinosaurs series, enabling him and his crew to film...
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California Film Commission director Colleen Bell on how Hollywood is recovering from a tough few years
In this edition of the On Location podcast, we meet Colleen Bell, director of the California Film Commission. She speaks with Julian Newby about her role at the Hollywood-based Film Commission, the impact of the six-Oscar-winning film One Battle After Another, and how the film industry across the...
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Let’s Play Ball and the Bicycle Race: two of the latest formats from EndemolShine Nederland
In this edition of the On Location podcast, we go to Amsterdam to meet Sil Geurtsen and Daan Moonen, two key figures in the development of two of the latest entertainment shows to come out of formats giant EndemolShine Nederland, part of Banijay Benelux – Let’s Play Ball and The Bicycle Race. In...
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Atlas of the Universe: director Paul Negoescu and location manager Andrei Stehan on filming in the Romanian countryside
In this edition of the On Location podcast, Julian Newby meets director Paul Negoescu and Location Manager Andrei Stehan to discuss the Romanian-Bulgarian coproduction Atlas of the Universe, which tells the story of 10-year-old Filip travels with his father to a nearby town to buy new football...
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Crime 101: Location Manager Robert Foulkes on choosing the highs and the lows of Los Angeles for the Chris Hemsworth heist movie
In this edition of the On Location podcast we meet veteran Location Manager, LA-based Robert Foulkes, who tells us how some of Crime 101s locations were chosen. In the movie, Mike Davis (Chris Hemsworth) is a master jewel thief who specialises in meticulously targeted robberies, which take place...
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One Battle after Another: supervising location manager Michael Glaser on the film’s chaotic trek across California
In this edition of the On Location podcast, Julian Newby meets Michael Glaser, supervising location manager on One Battle After Another. The film follows Leonardo Di Caprio as Bob, a permanently stoned former activist living off-grid in Northern California with his daughter Willa. Years after a...
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Passport Properties: in search of luxury, exotic and historic real estate
In this edition of the On Location podcast, Julian Newby meets luxury real-estate broker Billy Nash, host of the new global travelogue series Passport Properties. Billy is joined on the podcast by the series’ executive producer Leland Sandburg and together they talk about their cinematic journey...
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Adolescence: the series location manager and director of photography explain the one-take thing
Multiple Emmy-winning Netflix series Adolescence will be talked-about for years to come. The script, by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham and the performances by Graham and a brilliant ensemble cast are remarkable in themselves. But it’s director Philip Barantini’s one-camera, one-take method that…
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Europe: Location International magazine’s senior reporter Andy Fry on location filming across Europe
Andy Fry is senior reporter on Location International, the world’s longest-running publication that looks at location shooting for film and television production around the world. The 2025 edition launched at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2025. In this On Location podcast, the magazine’s editor...
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UK: Location International magazine’s senior reporter Andy Fry on location filming around the UK
Andy Fry is senior reporter on Location International magazine, the world’s longest-running publication that looks in detail at location filming around the world. The 2025 edition launched at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2025. In this On Location podcast, the magazine’s editor Julian Newby…
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The City of Liverpool: why Taylor Swift and The Batman chose to shoot here
The Liverpool Film Office and the city’s Local Visitor Economy Partnership have been working together for almost two years on a campaign to attract more film and TV production into the city. Liverpool already claims to have hosted more productions in 2024 than any other UK city outside London –…
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Asia: Location International magazine’s senior reporter Andy Fry on location filming across Asia
Andy Fry is senior reporter on Location International magazine, the world’s longest-running publication that looks in detail at location filming around the world. The 2025 edition launched at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2025. In this On Location podcast, the magazine’s editor Julian Newby…
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Andri Ómarsson: why James Bond chose to film in Iceland
Glassriver is a leading television and film production company based in Iceland. It has been creating and delivering content to the international markets since 2016. The company’s latest releases include the international eight-episode drama As Long as We Live; medical drama Fractures; and the...
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Professor Bettany Hughes: Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is a three-part documentary series from Israel/UK-based Keshet International and British production company SandStone Global, based on Professor Bettany Hughes’ 2024 book of the same name. In this On Location podcast, Julian Newby, editor of Location…
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning: Supervising Location Manager, Niall O’Shea
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, is the eighth and final movie in the franchise, and the third one for Supervising Location Manager Niall O’Shea. In this, the second On Location podcast that looks behind the scenes on this epic production, Niall talks with Julian Newby about what it was...
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning: how did Tom Cruise do those stunts?
In the first of two podcasts looking at Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, we hear from actor Simon Pegg and veteran stunt performer and stunt co-ordinator Ian Quinn, as we discuss the extraordinary stunts that feature in the movie. And they both agree: you’ve never seen stunts like this...
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E.1027 - Eileen Gray and The House by the Sea
Actor Natalie Radmall-Quirke talks to Julian Newby about her role as Irish designer Eileen Gray in the drama documentary E.1027 - Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea, filmed at the villa on the French Riviera that was designed and built by Gray. We hear about the stunning Mediterranean location,...
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Find Me Falling: When Harry met Cyprus
Harry Connick Jr is the star of the Netflix movie Find Me Falling, filmed entirely on the island of Cyprus. In this podcast we hear from stars of the film Harry Connick Jr and Julian Newby meets Agni Scott, and writer, director and producer Stelana Kliris on location in Cyprus.
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Theodosia: Egyptology in Morocco
Theodosia is an Egyptology-themed tween live-action series produced by Cottonwood Media and ZDF. The new season, Theodosia: The Oasis of Magic, was filmed across Paris, Belgium and Morocco. Julian Newby meets with director Alex Jacob and producer Cecile Laurenson to talk about some of the...
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Robert Foulkes: La La Land and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Julian Newby talks to location manager Robert Foulkes, about going on the road with La La Land and shooting the White House in West Wing. Foulkes is the man who shut down the ramp connecting the 105 and 110 freeways in Los Angeles for the movie La La Land. An impossible task but he did it, and…
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Mandi Dillin: The Morning Show and Inception
Julian Newby talks to Location supervisor Mandi Dillin. Dillin fell into the location business as young graduate looking for some kind of work in movies. She was invited to work briefly on the 2005 movie Fun with Dick And Jane as an assistant, and immediately got the bug. She has since worked as...
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Mike Fantasia: Killers Of The Flower Moon
Julian Newby talks to Mike Fantasia, supervising location manager on Killers Of The Flower Moon. Fantasia reveals director Martin Scorsese’s insistence that the film was shot where the tragic story of the murders of the indigenous Osage people actually happened – and how, after over 100 years…
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Ian Quinn: stunt performing on location
Veteran stunt co-ordinator and performer, Ian Quinn, tells Julian Newby how he insisted on taking a role in the movie Country Strong so that he could be on-set to protect its star Gwyneth Paltrow during a potentially dangerous scene. With decades in the business, his vast resumé includes...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
On Location is a companion podcast to the annual magazines Location International and Location California, bringing you inside stories from location shoots around the world. We talk to location managers, actors, producers and film commissioners, about the thrills – and the challenges – of filming On Location.
On Location is presented by Julian Newby, editor of Location International and Location California magazines.
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