Jordan, host to movies from Dune to Lawrence Of Arabia, has officially opened its first purpose built film and TV studio complex, Olivewood Film Studios (pictured below).
Located 15 minutes outside the center of the capital city of Amman, the studio launched with King Abdullah II, Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein and Princess Rym al-Ali in attendance.
The facility, which hopes to attract large scale productions, comprises two 1,500m² (16,145 sq ft) soundstages and a 1,000m² (10,764 sq ft) mill, and a leveled backlot of 68,000m² (731,946 sq ft), 4,000m² (43,056 sq ft) basecamp area, on-site canteen, parking for 95 cars, and a dedicated space for technical vehicles.
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According to Olivewood, it operates under a dedicated company with administrative and financial autonomy and is headed by Royal Film Commission executive commissioner Raja Gargour.
Jordan’s cash rebate program offers filmmakers up to a 25% recovery of the cost of local labor and supplier expenses. Most recently, the government passed a law exempting foreign and local productions from sales taxes.
Jordan is no stranger to major films. Hollywood movies to have shot in the country include Denis Villeneuve’s Dune and Dune 2, The Martian, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Hurt Locker, John Wick: Chapter 4, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, as well as international features such as Wonderland (South Korea), Holy Spider (Germany) and Rebel (Belgium). Further back, classics such as Lawrence of Arabia and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade were also shot in Jordan.
Said Gargour: “With the new studios and a 16-acre backlot, Jordan now has all the right components in place to service all international filmmaking needs as well as giving the local production houses the opportunity to produce their stories for the regional and international markets.”
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