The Prague Reporter

Online journal covering the Prague cinema scene, with the latest news about Czech movies and Hollywood projects now shooting in the Czech Republic.

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Netflix has returned to Prague for Family Pack 2: Renaissance, a sequel to the French werewolf movie that was also filmed in the Czech capital.

Monica Bellucci and Jamel Debbouze lead a new cast for the film, which has shot on location by Prague Castle:

https://t.co/6K0YbllGQf

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Following Mr Nobody Against Putin's Oscar win, another documentary with Czech backers is in the global spotlight.

Rehearsals for a Revolution, co-produced by Prague-based Media Nest, took home the award for top documentary at Cannes:

https://t.co/dkrATCuzgt

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The historical drama Melodies in the Forest, set partly around Terezín during WWII, is slated to begin filming in Czechia later this year.

Kevin Spacey will star in the lead role, marking one of the actor’s highest-profile projects in recent years.

https://t.co/4WFK4g8J8B

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The Walking Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan was spotted in Prague's Old Town Square earlier this month for filming on Destination X.

The NBC series drops off contestants in various European locales and challenges them to find out where they are:

https://t.co/8jOpGx4qTG

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Prague 7's Přístavní Street prominently features in a new poster for Zach Cregger's Resident Evil, which hits cinemas worldwide later this year.

The Prague Reporter captured the location in photos from the Holešovice set last fall:

https://t.co/qaESvU70O5

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It's official: the next Lord of the Rings video game adaptation will be made in Prague.

Warhorse Studios, the developer behind the Kingdom Come: Deliverance series, will handle the project, expected to come in at a budget of around $100 million:

https://t.co/EsyS1N1fCJ

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Prime Video has released the first look at Ride or Die, which filmed extensively in Prague last year.

Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer star in the comedy spy series, which will premiere on the streaming platform in July:

https://t.co/8gyMDDOrpK

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🎞️ Sony has released the first teaser for Zach Cregger's Resident Evil.

The trailer features zombie chaos filmed in Karlín and Holešovice, including the blood-soaked Přístavní Street sequence The Prague Reporter documented during last year’s shoot:

https://t.co/bkVm6FBzAt

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🎬 Legacy of Spies continued its Prague shoot this week with location filming taking place in areas of Old Town.

The Cold War-era series based on the work of John le Carré has also added new cast members including Dan Stevens and Felix Kammerer:

https://t.co/d4ku0yCCtv

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Filming for a new Netflix series titled The Russian (El Ruso) took place in central Prague last weekend.

The production, led by Argentine actor Chino Darín, staged scenes featuring actors in Nazi uniforms, drawing attention from passersby:

https://t.co/gPn8WuxxXL

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🎬 Filming for What Happens at Night has officially wrapped in the Czech Republic after a 35-day shoot.

Star Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted over Easter weekend at noted tourist hotspots including Karlštejn Castle and Prague pub Hostinec na Výtoni:

https://t.co/DFLiwUAedY

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An untitled prequel to Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is slated to film in Prague this summer, per industry reports.

Wyatt Russell will reprise his role as Lee Shaw, who attempts to stop the Soviet Union from unleashing a new Titan during the Cold War:

https://t.co/B0wIWYgKtw

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Prague's Invalidovna complex has been closed to the public throughout March and April for production on Charité.

The local landmark plays the titular Berlin hospital in the German medical drama, which takes place in a different era during each season:

https://t.co/l3dv0gluN7

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🎬 Production on Legacy of Spies, a new Cold War-era series based on the work of John le Carré, is now underway in Prague.

Matthew Macfadyen stars as intelligence officer George Smiley, with a supporting cast that includes Charlie Hunnam and Daniel Brühl: https://t.co/buhCVvJkHa

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Filming on Martin Scorsese's What Happens at Night continues this week in the historic town of Žatec.

Star Leonardo DiCaprio has returned, with the production staging dramatic winter sequences on the iron bridge over the Ohře River:

https://t.co/EMPkQOI85s

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Legendary martial artist and action star Chuck Norris has passed away, his family has confirmed.

In Czechia, the actor is beloved for a series of 2010 holiday advertisements he filmed in Prague, including a bilingual pun involving Bruce Lee:

https://t.co/ihRzrduKuJ

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📸 Apple has revealed the first official photo of Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in What Happens at Night.

Production on Martin Scorsese's latest film continues in Prague, and longtime collaborator Welker White has joined the cast:

https://t.co/0lCOv3I8U9

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🎬 Production on the Netflix miniseries Kennedy, starring Michael Fassbender as Joseph Kennedy Sr. and Joshuah Melnick as JFK, is now underway in Prague and Liberec.

Scenes shot in Czechia chart a 1937 European trip taken by JFK and friend Lem Billings:
https://t.co/GpF0BxBJHv

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🏆 Best Documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin has become the first Czech production to win an Oscar since 1996's Kolya.

“In the name of our future, in the name of all of our children, stop all of these wars now,” said co-director Pavel Talankin:

https://t.co/i6E55CWf7G

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🎼 As Timothée Chalamet gets hounded for saying 'no one cares' about opera, Leonardo DiCaprio visited one of the world's most famous stages in Prague.

The star took a break from filming on Scorsese's What Happens at Night to take in the Estates Theatre:
https://t.co/csN3FZfOJ7