WHO ARE THE FILM TOURISTS?

Daniela Kirchner and Harvey Edgington

“It always seems to be that the star of the film is London.”

(Richard Curtis)

About Film London

London is the third busiest centre for Film Production in the world.

Martin ScorceseChristopher Nolan

Clint EastwoodTim Burton

Woody Allen

• 13,000 Shooting Days

• 175 Features in 2009

• £752 Million

Film London

• Inward Investment and Business Development

• Talent Development and Production

• Film Culture and Promotion

FILM TOURISM

The StatisticsFrom The Economic Impact of the UK Film Industry, Oxford Economics, June

2010.

• Total tourism spending by 30m overseas visitors to the UK amounted to £16.4 billion in 2009.

• It is estimated that around one tenth of UK tourism may be attributable to the impact of UK film.

• In 2009, this additional spending is estimated to be worth £950m to UK GDP and £210m to the Exchequer.

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Love from London

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Love from London

The Exhibition

The ‘body’ of British film director Alfred Hitchcock floating dead in the River Thames. The dummy body was being filmed for a scene in the movie Frenzy. “I dare say you are wondering why I am floating around London like this” Hitch says in the trailer for Frenzy, “I am on the famous Thames River investigating a murder. Rivers can be very sinister places…”

Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) leaning on an ornate urn in Kew Gardens with the Palmhouse behind her. Hepburn had just moved to London after the war and revue producer Cecil Landau had recognised her potential; “'God's gift to publicity men is a heart-shattering young woman”,' said Picturegoer, “'with a style of her own . . .”' Hepburn was loaned out to Ealing Studios before her career went stratospheric.

Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) sits next to Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) at a press conference at The Savoy Hotel. Monroe is in London to film The Prince and the Showgirl. Stars loved The Savoy, with many of the greats gracing its hallowed halls including Fred Astaire, who danced on the hotel’s roof, and Olivier who started one of the most famous romances in history when he was first introduced to Vivian Leigh in the hotel’s front hall. The Savoy has just re-opened after an extensive refurbishment.

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