The last film shot in South Africa

South Africa has become a favourite destination for film crews shooting on location production in recent years. But while the Cape Town and its surroundings were used for the top advertising and production stills shoots for many years, is relatively recently that large movie productions have begun to use the South Africa regularly as a privileged frame for movie starring Jasmin Tabatabai great attractions like Halle Berry and Denzel Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio.

The last film shot in South Africa is safe house, still in the process of post-production and due for release in February 2012. It stars Denzel Washington as a rogue ex-agent, Ryan Reynolds, as CIA agent protects it and much of it is filmed on location in and around the streets of Cape Town with plenty of exciting action sequences along the scenic coast roads too.

Halle Berry was also in Cape Town recently resumed Dark Tide, a thriller about a diving instructor and close encounters with sharks. Filmed in the town of Simon in winter cold Cape, Halle Berry can still sport a bikini despite the cold. The film is still in post-production and is set to be released towards the end of 2011.

A great success, although with unknowns, District 9, released in 2009, he made headlines as one of the first South African film productions to make it big internationally. While the setting of urban decay and the theme of alien segregated by a Government unsympathetic, it is unlikely to bring tourists flocking, production was the big news for the South African film industry.

Blood Diamond, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and released in 2006, was filmed mostly in South Africa, despite being set in Sierra Leone, mainly due to higher infrastructure available here support this size of filmmaking.

Rumors are rife about the next James Bond film to be shot in South Africa. White paper, which is by Jeffrey Deaver novel Bond, just launched is set and around Cape Town for most of its history and speculation he was shot the next year to release the following year. However this is an unconfirmed, although exciting for cinephiles of Cape Town and Boost potential tourism sector that could come from the glamorous reflection of 007 enjoying cocktails, shaken not stirred, top hotels in Cape Town!

All in all, South Africa and Cape Town in particular are well on the map when it comes to international film industry, with world class infrastructure to support these mega productions.