The nominations for the 4th annual Location Managers Guild International Awards have been announced. The ceremony will take place, April 8th at the Steven J. Ross Theatre, located at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank.
Avengers: Infinity War, the third instalment in the successful Marvel crossover series will be filmed in Glasgow, Edinburgh and the Highlands. Principal photography will commence on February 28th, taking up residence for a total of six months and investing around GBP10 million into the local economy.
Transformers: The Last Knight, the latest instalment in Michael Bay’s long-running feature film series has begun shooting on location in the Isle of Skye. The shoot began yesterday morning and will carry on today, having set up in the areas of Quiraing, the Storr and Trotternish Ridge.
Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel, Ready Player One is now filming on location in Digbeth, doubling the location for a dystopian Ohio. Footage of the shoot emerged online, showing a van speeding around the corner of Floodgate Street.
London based production service company Film Fixer will manage a new dedicated film office for Suffolk, to offer a streamlined service for productions hoping to film in the English county. Entitled Screen Suffolk, this new entity will be officially unveiled at the FOCUS international production event in December 2016.
Film tourism has been cited as the main cause for propelling the success of Edinburgh’s hotel industry in recent years. The Scottish capital will soon overtake Dublin as the second busiest city for hotels and accommodation in Western Europe, with London currently sat at number one.
Located in the north-east of England, Newcastle may seem like an unassuming destination for location filming but in recent years the city has become an attractive area particularly for television shows. Recent productions include the upcoming ITV adaptation of Beowulf and detective series Vera.
Colin Simpson is the Principal Tourism & Film Officer at the Highland Council, offering advice to productions to help them choose the best location within the Scottish Highlands to suit them.