Oscar-winner Adrien Brody has started filming the historical feature Emperor on location near Prague. The Czech Republic is currently a popular place for period dramas, with the BBC also working in the region for a new series of The Musketeers.
Part of the Casablanca-Agadir highway has been closed by Morocco’s National Highway Company to accommodate filming for Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible 5. The closure will last until the end of next week and the production is also expected to shoot elsewhere in the country.
A new series of children’s superhero drama Power Rangers will return to film on location in Auckland and is set to boost the country’s TV industry. Power Rangers Dino Charge will be the highest-profile international TV series to film in New Zealand since the incentive programme was increased.
Netflix will film its new crime miniseries Marseille entirely on location in France. The drama will tell the story of a long-serving Mayor fighting a vicious re-election campaign in a city ruled by drug lords and corruption. Paris-based Federation Entertainment will produce.
Four separate film companies in Thailand have come together to form a new studio that aims to boost the country’s production industry and expand its influence in China. Transformation Film has USD5.5 million in registered capital and plans to release up to six movies a year.
Nick Love’s 2012 British crime drama The Sweeney will be remade on location in Paris as The Squad with Jean Reno. The original was based on the classic British TV drama of the same name and starred Ray Winstone and Ben Drew. Filming for the remake is scheduled for October this year.
Tom Cruise has spent the past few days in the Austrian capital Vienna filming scenes for the new Mission: Impossible movie. The film is set to continue the action franchise’s impressive stunt work, which last included high-rise work on the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
The BBC is set to film new period supernatural drama The Living And The Dead on location in England’s West Country next year. Set in Somerset in 1888, the drama will follow a farmer who investigates paranormal activity in a bid to prove the existence of an afterlife.