The city of Senoia, Georgia has seen a massive increase in tourism since being featured as a major location on AMC’s popular television series, The Walking Dead. The city has been used for multiple set pieces within the show, but its most iconic representation has been as Woodbury, a safe haven from the zombie apocalypse which was shot in Senoia’s Main Street.
An upcoming film directed by Martin McDonagh (Seven Psychopaths) and starring Academy Award winner Frances McDormand (Fargo) will be shot on location in Sylva, North Carolina.
In their latest commercial for Yves Saint Laurent, Production Service Company Jacaranda Films have used the Chilean city of Santiago and its surrounding area as their main location.
Both Serbia and Japan are featured as major locations in the upcoming horror film The Forest, set to premiere February 26th. The film’s namesake location is Serbia’s sprawling nature reserve Tara National Park, doubling for the Aokigahara Forest in Japan.
Trafalgar Square was closed on Sunday morning as filming took place for the upcoming superhero film, Wonder Woman. Roads leading into the square were closed off until 10:30am as the set transformed the area to mimic the City of London during the First World War.
The fourth season of BBC’s Sherlock will film on location in South Wales. While post-production work for the show has taken place in South Wales before, this will mark the first time that the series has ever filmed there. Previous locations to have featured on the show include London and Bristol.
Ukraine is set to install its own system of film incentives after the draft law, “On State Support of Cinematography in Ukraine” was passed by the country’s government on January 28th. The incentive is expected to be a 25% cash rebate that should launch in late April to coincide with the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
Visit Isle of Wight, in conjunction with English Heritage and Wight Media Services has unveiled plans to establish a Visit IW Film and TV Services Network. This new office will provide direct support to productions hoping to film in the Isle of Wight, with the hope being that a bolstered effort to expand the film industry will lead to an increase in film tourism.