The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol in the UK have welcomed Radium Audio as a new tenant. Increasingly popular as a film studio facility, the Bottle Yard has hosted TV shows like supermarket comedy Trollied, historical drama Wolf Hall and the Disney series Galavant.
Location filming for Australian drama The Code has helped raise Canberra’s profile as a filming location. Filmed partly in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) of Canberra, the series follows two brothers caught in a political conspiracy when they investigate an Outback murder.
New supernatural TV series South of Hell will film on location in Charleston, South Carolina. The drama will be the second major TV series to film in the state following legal drama Reckless, which was cancelled after just one season.
A new iPhone app has been launched by the West Virginia Film Office to aid filmmakers considering a local shoot. JJ Abrams’ alien drama Super 8 and TV miniseries The World Wars are among the productions that have shot in West Virginia in recent years.
Upcoming superhero movie Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice has filmed at Michigan State University (MSU). For the past few months the shoot has been based at Michigan Motion Picture Studios in Detroit.
Fantasy movie The Scorch Trials is set to film on location in New Mexico through to January next year. The film is the follow-up to recent hit teen movie The Maze Runner and will follow a group of young adults struggling for survival on a future Earth ravaged by solar flares.
Island Studios in Pittsburgh is developing a new movie studio. The complex will be Pennsylvania’s first purpose-built filming facility, offering a 75,000-square-foot soundproofed stage and accompanying office space. High-profile productions shot in the city in recent years include Christopher Nolan’s Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises.
Steven Spielberg has added the city of Wroclaw in south-west Poland to his list of filming locations for his new Cold War spy drama. Now called St. James Place, the movie stars Tom Hanks and is shooting mainly in New York and at Studio Babelsberg in Berlin.