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18.Chicago, USA, OctoCargoWise®, a global leader in technology solutions for logistics service providers (LSPs), announced that CMA CGM Logistics, a division of steamship carrier CMA CGM, has selected a hosted version of ediEnterprise from CargoWise to support its U.S. Season 3 of Game of Thrones is released on DVD and Blu-Ray on Feb. Perhaps that is why HBO is willing, or so it seems, to fund it with a blank cheque. It is much talked about, highly rated for a premium cable show, and it does a burgeoning DVD business. The fourth season will premiere in April, with the largest cast on television having been pared down a little at the bloody end of Season 3. The result, obviously, has been a huge success.

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When the subject of Game of Thrones comes up in conversation with anyone who works in the television business, the tone almost always takes on a sense of wonderment: How do they manage to do that? Budgets are always tight on a TV set, and yet here’s one that packs up an entire unit and sends it off into the dark of northern Iceland for two weeks, just so it can have some unique scenery. Martin, thought to be “unfilmable” because of its scope, into a host of compelling visuals, not least because the cable network has bankrolled sets from Iceland to Croatia to Morocco to Northern Ireland. But that has been one of the most spectacular things about Game of Thrones since its inception: HBO has turned the epic world of George R.R. Iceland’s nature: cool, but deadly.)Īll of it is, to put it mildly, a big undertaking in order to squeeze a few scenes into a television series. They had to recreate the setting on a soundstage in Belfast. (And, for the scenes in which Jon and Ygritte frolicked in the pools of a cave, the would-be setting of Grjotagja rift and its hot springs turned out to be impossible to use due to the risk of volcanic rock falling from overhead. Five or six hours later, it was dark again. Actors usually had to rehearse scenes in the absence of natural light, then filming began when the sun finally made it over the horizon in late morning. Also, because the days in an Icelandic winter are so short, all of the setup had to take place in near-total darkness.

(Except for the gravity.) The sparse roads, though, don’t allow a film crew to drive right up to a location, so all of the gear had to be packed onto sleds - $5 plastic toboggans, Newman says proudly - and dragged onto the site. Past the mountain road, it’s not unlike driving on the surface of the moon. From Reykjavik, it’s another flight of about an hour into Akuyeri, a fishing and resort village at the mouth of a fjord on the north coast.įrom there, it’s a drive east, over the mountains toward Myvatn. Iceland itself is a five-hour flight from the east coast of North America, and a little under three hours for the members of the Game of Thrones cast based in Europe, which is most of them. The expression “middle of nowhere” is overused, but it really applies in this case. The outdoor scenes were filmed here, next to Lake Myvatn. There’s an argument over Jon’s loyalty to the wildlings and, eventually, Ygritte distracts him from the argument by taking him to a cave and testing his vow of chastity in a very hands-on way. Viewers will recall the scenes in the third season of Game of Thrones in which Jon Snow and his new ladyfriend, Ygritte, roam north of The Wall with a band of wildlings.

“Filming here is logistically challenging,” Newman says in what is a remarkable bit of British understatement.

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