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Pinewood Shepperton to open ‘water studio’ in Dominican Republic

Pinewood Shep­per­ton is set to announce on Wednes­day that it will open a 35-acre film and tele­vi­sion stu­dio in the Domini­can Repub­lic to serve South America.

The new site will be of particular interest to film producers looking to create the realistic water effects seen in Pirates of the Caribbean. Photo: BUENA VISTA

The new site will be of par­tic­u­lar inter­est to film pro­duc­ers look­ing to cre­ate the real­is­tic water effects seen in Pirates of the Caribbean. Photo: BUENA VISTA

The Tele­graph has learnt that a cer­e­mony led by Leonel Anto­nio Fer­nán­dez Reyna, the Pres­i­dent of the Domini­can Repub­lic, to wel­come the move is sched­uled for Wednes­day. Con­struc­tion of Pinewood Indom­ina Stu­dios will begin imme­di­ately and the facil­ity is sched­uled to open next year.

The stu­dio is Pinewood’s lat­est move to lever­age the strength of the iconic British com­pany behind the James Bond and Harry Pot­ter film fran­chises out­side of the UK.

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Matrix producer plans Muhammad biopic

Bar­rie Osborne, part of the Oscar-winning team behind the Lord of the Rings films, says the new pro­duc­tion ‘will edu­cate peo­ple about the true mean­ing of Islam’.

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Pro­ducer Bar­rie Osborne cast Keanu Reeves as the mes­siah in The Matrix and helped defeat the dark lord Sauron in his record-breaking Lord of the Rings tril­ogy. Now the Oscar-winning Amer­i­can film-maker is set to embark on his most per­ilous quest to date: mak­ing a big-screen biopic of the prophet Muhammad.

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