Sony has announced it will be opening a new Digital Motion Picture Centre at Pinewood Studios near London in the next few weeks. The centre will offer training resources for Sony’s latest cameras and digital technologies through structured courses and informal discussions.
A new period TV movie exploring the life of Lizzie Borden has filmed on location in Nova Scotia, doubling the Canadian province for the US state of Connecticut. Borden was acquitted of the axe-murder of her parents in 1892 in a case that was never solved and caused a media storm.
Star Ryan Gosling filmed on location in Bangkok for Nicolas Winding Refn’s nightmarish crime feature Only God Forgives. The film follows Gosling’s boxing club owner as he seeks to avenge the murder of his brother in the criminal underworld of the Thai capital.
A sequel to hit 2011 family film Dolphin Tale will return to film on location in Florida this autumn. The first film told the true story of injured dolphin Winter, who was nursed back to health in a Florida aquarium with the use of an artificial tail.
Jane Austen television pastiche Death Comes to Pemberley has filmed on location around York in northern England. The story is set six years after the events of Austen’s classic novel Pride & Prejudice, and follows Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy in a murder mystery.
An upcoming reboot of superhero franchise The Fantastic Four has cancelled plans to film on location in Vancouver. Twentieth Century Fox has instead opted to shoot in Louisiana, following the recent renewal of the southern state’s generous 30% filming tax credit.
Marvel’s superhero sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier has wrapped its location filming in Cleveland, Ohio, which doubled for Washington, DC. The film now heads to California and will continue studio work in Los Angeles.
Chicago is hosting a summer of location filming spearheaded by the latest Transformers movie and the Wachowski siblings’ new sci-fi feature Jupiter Ascending. The city will also be hosting six ongoing television series.