Hallmark Channel and production company Frontier Productions have faced some challenges finding suitable filming locations in Colorado for a new period miniseries. The team behind When Calls the Heart announced a location shoot in Telluride, south-west Colorado, a few weeks ago.
The North Carolina Film Office has reported local filming production spending of USD250 million for the first half of 2013. Around 35 separate projects - including Stephen King miniseries Under the Dome - have already filmed locally or have indicated they intend to do so.
Shreveport in north-west Louisiana plans to launch more crew training programmes to help boost the region’s production industry. Louisiana is one of America’s main production hubs but filming tends to focus on New Orleans and state capital Baton Rouge in the south-east.
The director of crime movie Filth has said that having film studio facilities in Scotland could help stimulate the production industry. Jon Baird made the movie – based on a novel by Irvine Welsh – on location in Scotland and also on mainland Europe.
New post-production company Empire Visual Effects is to be opened in Buffalo in Western New York in a move that could boost the state’s location filming industry. A 35% tax credit is available for projects that complete post-production work in upstate New York.
Brooding crime dramas have put the Oresund region of Sweden and Denmark on the production map and have boosted local film tourism. While Wallander has been remade by the BBC, the US remake of hit Oresund murder mystery The Bridge has made its TV debut.
Santa Clarita, just north of Los Angeles in California, boosted its location filming days by nearly 20% in the 2012/13 fiscal year. The city recorded 1,069 shoot days and local production spending rose nearly 25% on the previous year.
A dedicated state film office has been confirmed for Georgia in the south-east US. Authorities have recognised the need for a single, centralised agency to help co-ordinate shoots like locally-filmed zombie drama The Walking Dead as the state’s production industry grows.