Malcolm Ellul News Today

Game of Thrones is celebrating its 10th birthday today but 11 years ago, when season one was shot in Malta, no one could have imagined it would grow into a global TV phenomenon. The HBO mega-series soon had fans travelling across the world to visit filming locations. At its humble beginnings, the source material was a popular novel series with a huge cult following. But beyond that, there was none of the hype later associated with the brand, the Malta Film Commission (MFC) said. Most of the act...

The pandemic shut down many film sets around the world but the industry in Malta still managed to go on, despite restrictions and limitations. Film sets typically see a lot of people working in the same space and the challenges of coordinating all of them are numerous. Notwithstanding the cost of maintaining protocols, work on films here continued with minor disruption. Malcolm Ellul has played different crew roles over the years and the coronavirus added another to his expertise: COVID-19 mana...