Romania will launch its first regional Transilvania Film Fund in April in the city of Cluj-Napoca, and will also develop a new studio facility. The city has been hosting the Transilvania International Film Festival for 15 years and the new fund could help attract more foreign producers.
Successful Norwegian TV drama Mammon has filmed scenes on location in Istanbul for its second series. The show follows a journalist whose life collapses around him when he uncovers evidence of corporate fraud.
A new TV drama telling the life story of famous mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary is filming on location in New Zealand and Nepal. In 1953, Sir Edmund and his Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Leonardo DiCaprio is shooting period survival drama The Revenant in remote parts of Alberta, Canada, with filmmaker Alejandro G Iñárritu. Alberta is a popular double for remote locations and stood in for Canada’s Yukon in the recent historical miniseries Klondike.
Czech creative agency Mandrake and its US production partner Rogue Agent have produced a new film showcasing the relief work being done in Haiti by J/P HRO. The organisation was founded by actor Sean Penn and is supported by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ Jeep brand.
Finland’s film commissions and The Location Guide have organised a lunch at Berlinale tomorrow (6 February) to promote Finland’s production industry among location professionals in Germany. The Berlinale is one of the world’s top film festivals.
A state lawmaker is pushing to cancel Michigan’s filming incentive by the end of 2015. Detroit recently hosted the upcoming superhero movie Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice but a state Representative wants to redirect the film fund elsewhere in the regional economy.
Six of the major Hollywood studios have agreed to keep buying film stock from Kodak. Despite the broad industry preference for digital production, several of this year’s Oscar nominees were shot on film, including Boyhood, Foxcatcher, Interstellar and The Imitation Game.