Martin Cuff Consulting

I am only showing you this because it filmed in Turkey and I met the very nice producer at a Film Commission conference there last February. Nicholas Cage? Still not my best.

I’m conflicted about Margaret Thatcher. As as fiscal conservative, I’m aware she made ludicrously hard economic decisions that radically and brutally overhauled socialist-style Britain, and made way for the prosperity (and greed) of the 90′s and naughties. As a social liberal however, I revile her repressive “Victorian values” – classist, sexist, homophobic – that set [...]

So (“blush”), I was interviewed for a profile piece in the LA Times that came out yesterday: Film commissions are set up by governments to be the custodian of economic activity. That involves attracting international production to the destination, because it obviously creates jobs and stimulates small business growth. But the job of film commissioners [...]

Nuff said.

With Russian AND Chinese characters, Safe looks like like Mercury Rising for the BRICS economies. Quite how they’ll take to being portrayed as criminals is quite another issue. (BONUS: Jason Statham)

Action-thriller Safe House was originally set in Brazil. Famously, the producers were so impressed by the stand-in capability of Cape Town that the entire movie was relocated to South Africa, with the Mother City playing her gorgeous, beautiful self. Plot-wise, it stars teary-eyed Ryan Reynolds as a CIA operative stuck in a dead end job [...]

Honestly, I always thought Robert de Niro was not of this world.

Very envious of the gang who are heading to Berlin over the next couple of days for the fabulous Berlinale. Apparently the hot ticket is Iron Sky, a Finnish-German-Australian Nazis-in-Space comedy that’s outselling all the Werner Herzogs and Anjelina Jolies put together. Anyway, if you’re in Berlin on the afternoon of the 11th Feb, do [...]

Bourne is back. Awesome.

That’s not scary. You know what’s scary? United Long Haul, economy class.