STARGATE - STARGATE MOVIE MAKES USE OF ARCTIC NAVY BASE

The producers of new sci-fi movie STARGATE: CONTINUUM have hired the US Navy's Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station in the Arctic for a week of filming. Cast and crew will be braving the icy temperatures 200 nautical miles north of Alaska to shoot scenes for the film project - a spin-off of TV series STARGATE SG1 - next week (ends30MAR07). Filming will also involve US Navy submarine USS Alexandria,which will burst through the ice and into the cold Arctic air for one pivotal scene in the new movie. CHARLES COHEN, Senior Executive Vice President of Finance and Corporate Development at film studios MGM, says, "We are excited to be working with the US Navy on filming these epic scenes in the arduous conditions of the Arctic."