A new direct flight route launched by Etihad between Los Angeles and Abu Dhabi could help boost filming in the United Arab Emirates. The UAE hopes the ease of travel will encourage more US producers to make the journey from LA and film on location in Abu Dhabi.
Filmmaker Gareth Edwards will shoot a spinoff Star Wars movie in the UK. Director JJ Abrams is already at work in London on Star Wars: Episode VII as the first in a new trilogy, but Disney/Lucasfilm is also planning a series of non-trilogy spinoff movies.
Authorities in Calgary, Alberta, have confirmed the site for the province’s first purpose-built film studio. The Calgary Film Centre will be built in the east of the city and could help Alberta attract more high-profile productions like crime series Fargo and recent period drama Klondike.
Long-running US daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful will film episodes on location in Paris this week. The shoot will mark 25 years of the show being broadcast in the country on the France 2 network and comes only a few weeks after the soap filmed in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
American drama co-production Dig has started shooting in Jerusalem and could help boost Israel’s profile as an international filming location. The series tells the story of an FBI agent uncovering a conspiracy while investigating the murder of an archaeologist in Jerusalem.
[slideshow id=395]It’s finally here! As international football fever descends on Brazil for the FIFA World Cup, fans around the world are gathering around their TV screens to enjoy the nail-biting drama. Brazil plans to make a global impact far beyond the playing prowess of its legendary football team.
The BBC has filmed scenes for its new period drama Poldark on location in Bath in the west of England. Production is based at The Bottle Yard Studios in nearby Bristol, which was also the long-term home of Channel’s period drama New Worlds.
The pilot for new US drama series Knifeman is filming on location at West London Film Studios in the UK. Tom Hollander will play real-life 18th Century Scottish surgeon John Hunter in a story based on the biography The Knife Man: Blood, Body-Snatching and the Birth of Modern Surgery.