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Filming Location: Iceland

Films in this library shot in Iceland, a landscape used whenever a film needs somewhere that does not look like earth. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.

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Rebel Moon (2023) Review

Rebel Moon (2023) rates 1 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Zack Snyder pitched this to Lucasfilm as a Star Wars film, was refused, and made it anyway with the names changed. It is Seven Samurai with the recruitment…

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Oblivion (2013)

Oblivion is Joseph Kosinski's 2013 American science fiction film and one of the stronger entries in Tom Cruise's late science fiction cycle. The work is more thoughtful than Cruise's late action filmography typically allows.

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Independence Day (1996)

Dean Devlin co-wrote with Emmerich. The film established Will Smith as the dominant summer blockbuster star of the late 1990s, set up Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's career-long partnership producing disaster spectacles, and refined the destruction-of-iconic-landmarks visual template that subsequent…

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