The producers of upcoming mountaineering drama Everest are promoting the real filming locations used in the movie. Based on the true story of climbers caught in a devastating avalanche in 1996, the film shot partly on location in Nepal and in the Italian Dolomites.
Georgia is preparing to launch a filming incentive in early 2016. Positioned on the intersection between Europe and Asia, the country is planning to offer a 20% rebate for international productions filming locally, but details of the required minimum spend have yet to be finalised.
Angelina Jolie Pitt will direct First They Killed My Father in Cambodia later this year. The film is based on the childhood experiences of Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung, who was five years old when the brutal Khmer Rouge regime seized power in 1975.
A new TV adaptation of the iconic 1970s slavery drama Roots will film in Louisiana. Based on the novel by Alex Haley, the series follows Gambian Kunta Kinte, sold into slavery in the late 1760s, and the experiences of himself and those of his descendents over the next 200 years.
A new TV drama based on the comic book character Wynonna Earp is set to film on location in Calgary. The Alberta city is currently best-known for the TV version of crime drama Fargo, which has filmed two seasons locally.
New Zealand is to make its visual effects incentive more accessible to producers a year after the country’s overall filming incentive package was boosted. As an administrative change, Film New Zealand will be absorbed into the New Zealand Film Commission.
Anna Gunn’s new Wall Street drama Equity is doubling Philadelphia for New York City. Gunn is best known for her role as Skyler White in Breaking Bad and in her new film is playing an investment banker facing the challenges of sexism in New York’s financial district.
A new movie adaptation of Swallows and Amazons is being shot in the Lake District in north-west England and has been welcomed by the National Trust. Historical buildings managed by the organisation have appeared recently in the BBC’s period drama series Wolf Hall.