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Well, the fact is that while everyone else is enjoying the warmth of their families around the world, we keep on shooting. On the Christmas eve, we continued the scene we had started the yesterday,… Read more

Well, Lin Feng and Da Fei are gone – for now. On Saturday, we finished off the work with these two talented, young actors who joined the production very early on and made a terrific… Read more

There’s no place like home! Even if it’s someone else’s home, and especially home of a character in a movie! Friday, our journey took us to the other side of the town, to a small… Read more

We’ve been lucky to not to have had any serious accidents on the set, but on Thursday it was very close to get someone really hurt. The set – a spaceship interior – was built… Read more

Spacesuits are every scifi filmmaker’s headache. The first truth is that real spacesuits are hard to come by, just because they cost so much (around twelve million dollars for a proper, working flight suit) and… Read more

My brother died a year ago, on 19th of December in 2016. The day was the worst of my life. We were driving with Annika and Pekka to a ski center in Helsinki. The mood… Read more

Working with a bilingual script has it’s perils. Sometimes things that seem completely negligible might turn around to be the huge problems. This week, we’ve had our share of translation issues that have required us… Read more

Well, I had it coming. I woke up feeling rather rotten on the morning, and the reason was not far to be found: yesterday’s sitting in the freezing cold weather got me a nice flu,… Read more

I was really pissed off at the production for not having the day after Andy’s departure a day off, but instead scheduling a long outdoor scene to the end of the day. 6:15 pickup was… Read more

Andy’s last day was packed, since we had to do every last closeup we could ever imagine with Andy, plus two scenes, out of which the other one was quite a heavy one. What I… Read more