Where Was Sweet Tooth Filmed? Rees Valley to Tasman Glacier Netflix’s Sweet Tooth is set in a post-pandemic America. However, not a single frame of it was actually shot there. Instead, the Sweet Tooth filming locations in New Zealand span three dramatically different corners of the South Island: the Rees Valley near Glenorchy, the Tasman
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Skippers Canyon Filming Locations: Mission Impossible Fallout Guide
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Skippers Canyon Filming Locations: Mission Impossible Fallout Some of the most jaw-dropping helicopter footage in Mission: Impossible – Fallout wasn’t shot over Milford Sound at all. Two of the film’s key Skippers Canyon filming locations sit just outside Queenstown, in rugged, barely-touched valleys most visitors never see. Skippers Canyon and the Nevis Valley don’t get
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Where Was Mulan Filmed in New Zealand? Inside Ahuriri Valley Disney’s 2020 live-action Mulan is set entirely in ancient China. However, the crew barely filmed any of it there. Instead, for six months in 2018, the film’s biggest and most demanding scenes came together in a remote New Zealand valley, standing in for a country
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Ida Valley, Otago: Inside the Power of the Dog Filming Locations Long before Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog swept the 2022 awards season, Central Otago was already New Zealand’s best kept cinematic secret. Golden tussock hills, wide dry valleys and huge open skies have stood in for worlds from Middle-earth to the American
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Milford Sound, Fiordland: Mission: Impossible – Fallout Filming Locations Few landscapes on earth look like they were built for the movies. Milford Sound is one of them. Towering granite cliffs drop straight into black water. Waterfalls appear out of nowhere. Clouds sit low over the fiord for most of the year. This corner of Fiordland
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Hokitika Gorge West Coast: The Ultimate Travel Guide There are few places on earth where glacial water glows this bright. Hokitika Gorge has an intense, milky turquoise hue that looks almost unreal. That is the magic waiting for you at Hokitika Gorge West Coast, on New Zealand’s South Island. The Hokitika Gorge West Coast region
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Mount Doom New Zealand: Complete Guide to Mt Ngauruhoe and the Lord of the Rings When Peter Jackson needed a mountain that looked like the end of the world, he found it in the middle of New Zealand’s North Island. Mount Ngauruhoe is the perfectly symmetrical volcanic cone at the heart of Tongariro National Park.
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Lake Moke, Glenorchy and Queenstown: Filming Locations of Top of the Lake Not every great drama needs a studio. Lake Moke, Glenorchy, and Queenstown proved that. Jane Campion chose this corner of New Zealand’s South Island for her acclaimed TV series. Top of the Lake first broadcast in 2013, and it brought the raw landscapes
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Hobbiton Movie Set, Matamata: The Real-Life Shire from The Hobbit Hobbiton Matamata, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movie set in New Zealand, is the rare filming location that looks even better in person than it does on screen. Rolling green hills are dotted with round doors and smoking chimneys. Tended gardens stretch across
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Paradise, Glenorchy: The Real-Life Heart of Middle-earth Few places on earth blur fantasy and reality quite like Paradise, Glenorchy. This small, gloriously named valley sits at the top of Lake Wakatipu. It is one of the most iconic stops on any Lord of the Rings filming locations New Zealand journey. The valley also remains one