Production professionals in North Carolina will rally this weekend in support of the state’s filming incentive. The 25% filming incentive is set to expire at the end of this year and the production industry is concerned shoots like Stephen King’s Under the Dome will film elsewhere.
Scenes for BBC Films' new period feature Testament Of Youth have been shot on location in Sheffield in northern England. The feature is based on Vera Brittain’s famous memoir of the First World War and follows the writer’s experiences of the conflict.
A new episode of US sitcom Modern Family that spent two weeks filming in Australia has been a ratings hit and could help boost film tourism in the country. The comedy follows the show’s extended family as they holiday in Sydney and on the Great Barrier Reef.
A sequel to the 2007 action movie videogame adaptation Hitman will film partly on location in Singapore. Agent 47 will star Homeland actor Rupert Friend as the eponymous sharply-tailored assassin who sports a distinctive barcode on the back of his head.
Political drama House of Cards has made a deal to keep filming in Maryland for its third season, after weeks of uncertainty. Production company Media Rights Capital (MRC) had said they would consider filming elsewhere if local filming incentive support was not increased.
John Travolta’s new thriller Criminal Activities will film on location in Cleveland, Ohio, after securing a filming incentive payment. Ohio offers a base filming incentive of 25% and recent high-profile features have included The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
The BBC will be filming its new period drama Poldark partly on location at the historic Chavenage House near Bristol in south-west England. Mammoth Screen is basing Poldark at Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios that recently hosted Channel 4 production New Worlds.
[slideshow id=390]Spring has brought foreign filmmakers to Poland. As Film Commission Poland (FCP) reports, a big Indian production is about to wrap in Warsaw, another Bollywood film is coming to Krakow, a BBC crew has toured the country by train and AXN will shoot on the coast.