Upcoming Man of Steel follow-up Batman Vs Superman will film on location in Detroit, Michigan. Shooting will take place in the first quarter of 2014 and the movie will get a filming incentive payment of around USD35 million on planned local expenditure of about USD131 million.
Disney’s plan for major film studio expansion in southern California has won the crucial approval of Los Angeles County Supervisors. The Golden Oak Movie Ranch in Santa Clarita will have more than 500,000 square feet of new facilities, including sound stages.
British police drama series Vera has filmed on location in Newcastle and in Northumberland in the north-east of England for its fourth season. The show follows Brenda Blethyn’s Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope as she works cases in the area.
Russian production company Unified Media Group has filmed sci-fi thriller Calculator partly on location in Iceland with footballer-turned-actor Vinnie Jones. The Icelandic leg of the shoot lasted around three weeks, with the country standing in for an alien planet.
George Clooney and filmmaker Brad Bird have begun shooting their new Disney feature Tomorrowland on location in Vancouver. Very little has been revealed about the production, but the project is a welcome boost for British Columbia’s filming industry.
A feature biopic of legendary musician James Brown will film on location in Mississippi and will also double the state for scenes set in Paris and Vietnam. The shoot will be directed by Mississippi native Tate Taylor, who also worked locally on Oscar-winning feature The Help.
Pinewood Shepperton’s chief executive has reiterated the need for strategic global expansion. Ivan Dunleavy also said that the studios must continue to offer world-class filming facilities in order to continue boosting the UK economy.
A new reality-TV series following the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Yukon, Canada, is being planned by a New York-based production company. True Entertainment has experience in the genre, but the shoot is causing controversy locally.