Company Pictures has returned to The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol, western England, to film new six-part period drama Wolf Hall for the BBC. The production company previously based its period drama New Worlds at the studios.
Bollywood action movie Bang Bang will spend nearly a month filming on location in Abu Dhabi. Loosely based on Tom Cruise’s 2010 action comedy Knight and Day, the movie will use the Emirate city’s 30% filming incentive.
Red Planet Pictures is filming a new version of the biblical Noah story on location in Morocco for the BBC, just as Darren Aronofsky’s Noah has proven a global hit. The Ark will star David Threlfall and is being made in association with Lip Sync Productions and Great Point Media.
A new report has revealed that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 spent USD44 million in local wages and nearly USD6 million on hotel nights while filming on location in New York. Overall, the production spent USD150 million locally and was the largest shoot to have ever filmed in the state.
Filming has wrapped on the first feature to shoot at New England Studios in Massachusetts in the eastern US. Tumbledown is a low-budget movie that tells the story of a widow working on a biography of her late musician husband. The film doubles Massachusetts for Maine.
A California company that is a major supplier of historic trains to the production industry is being threatened with closure. Fillmore & Western Railway Co supplies trains dating to the 1880s but is facing eviction by a local authority.
Filmmaker Terence Davies is shooting period feature Sunset Song in Aberdeenshire in Scotland. The film is based on the 1932 novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and tells the story of a young woman coming of age in Scotland as social turmoil ripples from the First World War.
A feature film version of the long-running BBC spy drama Spooks will film key action scenes on location in Birmingham and Coventry in the West Midlands over the next few days. The TV drama ran for ten seasons and followed a team of London-based MI5 agents.