Filming will take place in Cheshire for the ITV Studios World War II drama series Home Fires, adapted from a novel by Julie Summers. Cheshire, in north-west England, has also recently hosted Channel 4 historical drama The Mill, following the lives of workers in the mid-19th Century.
Upcoming superhero sequel X-Men: Apocalypse will film on location in Montreal, Canada, the same place chosen by its massively successful predecessor X-Men: Days of Future Past. It’s likely to film at the same studio facility, Mel’s Cite du Cinema.
DreamWorks is preparing to shoot historical drama The Light Between Oceans on location in New Zealand. The movie will feature Michael Fassbender and Rachel Weisz as a couple on a remote Australian island after World War I who adopt an infant they find in a washed-up boat.
Beer brand Bud Light has taken over the main street of a town in the US state of Colorado for a controversial new commercial campaign. Crested Butte will become ‘Whatever, USA’ for the weekend and the campaign will fly in a thousand young adult competition winners for a party in the town.
Marvel Studios’ superhero sequel Captain America 3 will film on location in Atlanta in the spring of 2015, becoming just the latest big-budget franchise to visit Georgia. Ant-Man is scheduled to visit the city in the coming weeks, marking Marvel’s first Atlanta shoot.
A database of regional film locations is to get a boost from two councils in Far North Queensland, Australia, in a bid to increase Hollywood’s interest. Disney is reportedly considering filming Pirates of the Caribbean 5 in the region and authorities want to attract more high-profile shoots.
Work on a new film studio facility in Miami, Florida, is to start in mid-October, several weeks later than originally planned. City authorities hope that the Miami Entertainment Complex (MEC) will attract more shoots on the scale of Dolphin Tale 2 and long-running TV drama Burn Notice.
Three European film funds are preparing a new collaborative film initiative. The RE-ACT (Regional Audiovisual Co-operation and Training) programme has been set up by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund in Italy and the Slovenian Film Centre.