British actor Simon Pegg – star of Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and more recently Edgar Wright’s The World’s End – is filming in Western Australia (WA) for feature Kill Me Three Times. The shoot is supported by Perth-based regional development agency ScreenWest.
A new studio facility is being planned for development in the Titanic Quarter of Belfast in Northern Ireland. The urban-waterfront region already houses Titanic Studios, encompassing Paint Hall studio, which hosts HBO fantasy drama Game of Thrones.
The filmmaker behind recent serial killer drama The Frozen Ground has commented on the need for Alaska to develop its production infrastructure. Filming incentives enabled Scott Walker to shoot the Alaska-set story on location in and around Anchorage.
Expansion plans at Cinespace Chicago Film Studios in Illinois are set to benefit from a new property tax reduction being planned by the city’s Mayor. The studios were officially opened in mid-2011 and the facility is set to develop more stages in the coming years.
The head of Northern Ireland Screen has predicted that regional spending from all filming productions will double over the next four years. Northern Ireland has benefitted from direct production spending of GBP121 million since 2009.
Authorities in Miami are looking to develop a new studio to boost the Florida city’s production industry and appeal to more shoots like TV drama Burn Notice. A private company would operate the studio in retrofitted premises, but the building would remain under the city’s ownership.
Clearwater on Florida’s west coast is preparing for location filming to start on Dolphin Tale 2. The movie will be a follow-up to the hit 2011 family drama telling the true story of an injured dolphin that was nursed back to health with a prosthetic tail.
BBC Worldwide will be boosting its UK filming spend by 10% for the next 12 months, bringing the total to GBP200 million. Drama productions on the scale of The White Queen are likely to be among the type of projects to benefit from the budget hike.