Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Hollywood film-shoots boost struggling Spanish islands

A ship used as a set for the shooting of the film 'In the Heart of the Sea', near Playa de Santiago, on the Spanish Canary island of La Gomera, on November 23, 2013 Playa de Santiago (Spain) (AFP) - Barefoot young men in ragged clothes disembark from a 19th century-style whaling ship bobbing in the bay off the Spanish island of Gomera. They are here to shoot a Hollywood movie on this Atlantic island, giving hope to local workers and businesses stricken by five years of on-off recession. Smiling for photographs with local girls, Australian actor Chris Hemsworth, 30 -- known as the big-screen superhero "Thor" -- and his British co-star Tom Holland are among the better-known faces of the project. But US filmmaker Ron Howard -- director of blockbuster pictures such as "The Da Vinci Code" -- saw in these beaches an ideal setting for his current film, "In the Heart of the Sea".








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