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‘North Shore’
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Diamond HeadFox Television's hotel drama "The North Shore" is already moving into the Hawaii Film Studio, as the Diamond Head facility is being vacated this week by NBC's cop pilot production "Hawaii," which is still waiting to be green-lit next month. Construction started this week inside the film studio's soundstage of the "Grand Waimea" hotel's immense lobby complex. Fox has approved a 24-7 set construction schedule for at least 50 local IATSE carpenters working in shifts.
The rush is needed since the show is expected to air this summer, but no later than August. The show will look like a Hawaii travelogue -- Fox wants every shot to look like a poster for Hawaii. The show will start off with a six-day-a-week shooting schedule, with each episode taking eight days, including five days exterior and three days interior scenes. The Turtle Bay Resort, used in the pilot as the "Grand Wailea," remains as the show's resort.
Filming of 12 episodes begins at the end of the month. Its production office is at the Alana Waikiki hotel until office space becomes available at the studio ...
Hawaii Film Office manager Donne Dawson is getting high marks from at least one "Hawaii" executive in convincing NBC to give up its lease on the studio to allow Fox Television to use it. The studio rents for about $16,000. Fox had been looking at the 160,000 square-foot vacant Costco warehouse in Salt Lake at about $50,000 a month.
Sources say "Lost" and "Hawaii" producers met this week with Hawaii Film Office officials at the Costco warehouse to consider sharing the immense space if their respective series are green lit next month ...
"Lost," which wraps April 24, moves tomorrow from its Mokuleia beach location for three days of filming at Kualoa Ranch where actors will trek through the jungle and along mountain ridges ...
Just in case State and county officials didn't get the memo: Competition has never been more fierce to lure productions to locations around the world. That's what Hawaii's State and county film commissioners face this week when they travel to Los Angeles for the annual Locations Trade Show. Foreign territories -- one-third of the 300-member organization -- are its fastest-growing sector.
There will be 250 exhibitors from more than 25 countries in the industry's biggest trade show marketing opportunity ...
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