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Big Rebates Lure International Shoots to Iceland as Productions Contend With Active Volcanoes
With a production rebate of 35%, Iceland has attracted production like “True Detective: Night Country,” “King and Conqueror” and “The Darkness.”
A few hundred feet away, as steam from the famous Blue Lagoon rises in the distance, a makeup artist fights the gusting wind to touch up the lead of the volcano romance disaster movie. But the commercially targeted project based on a popular and prescient Icelandic novel couldn’t be timelier — the town of Grindavik, near the set, was recently evacuated after the Sundhnúksgígar series of volcanoes erupted. Instead of large, noisy blowers, the soundstages’ vast floors are heated with Iceland’s famous geothermal energy, and Kormakur asked for the stages to include windows, so crew members could see the light of day even when toiling on productions for long shoots.
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