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Fiji has featured prominently in award-winning movies like Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, sequel to Anaconda stars Jonny Mesner, Morris Chestnut, Salli Richardson, KaDee Strickland and Eugene Byrd.

There’s also the 20th Century Fox and Dreamworks SKG mega blockbuster film Cast Away starring two-times Oscar winner Tom Hanks and directed by Bob Zemeckis who also chose Fiji as the “heaven sequence” for the Jodi Foster sci-fi blockbuster Contact.

Hollywood's fascination with Fiji stems back for more than 50 years with the following original screenings filmed on Fiji shores:

• Mr Robinson Crusoe or Tropical Knight - 1932

Director: A Edward Sutherland

Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Snr, Maria Alba, William Farnum

Locations: FIJI, SAMOA & TAHITI

 

• Blue Lagoon - 1949

Director/Producer: Frank Launder

Starring: Jean Simmons

Distributor: Columbia

Location: Sawa-i-lau, Yasawas

 

• His Majesty O’Keefe - 1953

Producer: Harold Hecht

Director: Byron Haskin

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice

Distributor: Warner Bros

Location: Deuba, Pacific Harbour, Grand Pacific Hotel and Cumming Street, Suva

 

• The Dove - 1974

Producer: Gregory Peck

Director: Charles Jarrott

Starring: Joseph Bottoms, Deborah Raffin & John McLiam

Distributor: Paramount

Locations: Lami , Suva

 

• The Blue Lagoon -1979

Director/Producer: Randal Kleiser

DOP: Nestor Almendros

Starring: Brooke Shields, Leo McKern, Christopher Atkins & William Daniels Distributor: Columbia

Location: Nanuya Levu, Yasawa

 

• Savage Islands -1983

Producers: Lloyd Phillips & Rob Whitehouse

Director: Ferdinand Fairfax

Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe, Max Phillips & Jenny Seagrove Distributor: Paramount

Location: Pacific Harbour

 

• Return to the Blue Lagoon -1992

Producers: Randal Kleiser & William A Graham

Director: William A Graham

Starring: Milla Jovavich & Brian Krause

Distributor: Columbia

Location: Taveuni

 

• Flynn or My Forgotten Man -1993

Producers: Peter Boyle, Malcolm Olivestone

Director: Frank Howson

Starring: Guy Pearce, Claudia karvan, Stephen Berkoff, Wendy Matthews

Distributor: Boulevarde Films

Locations: Australia & Fiji

 

• Cast Away - 2000

Producers: Steve Starkey, Tom Hanks, Robert Zemeckis & Jack Rapke

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Starring: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt & Nick Searcy

Distributors: Dreamworks/20th Century Fox

Locations: Monu-riki Island, Manamucas

 

• Coral Reef Adventure - 2002

Distributors: MacGillivray Freeman

Locations: Australia, Fiji & Tahiti

 

• Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid - 2004

Producer: Verna Harrah, Jake Rose

Director: Dwight Little

Starring: Johnny Mesner, Morris Chestnut, Eugene Byrd, Salli Richardson, Kadee Strickland

Distributor: COLUMBIA/SCREEN GEMS

Locations: Pacific Harbour

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