This week we’ve covered features filmed in Moscow and Dublin. In the US Spielberg’s long-time producer, Kathleen Kennedy, has been talking about the director’s ongoing Lincoln shoot in Virginia, while Alaskans debate the state of their filming incentive. Elsewhere, Chivas Regal has filmed a new commercial short in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
Steven Spielberg’s long-time producer Kathleen Kennedy has offered some comments about the appeal of Virginia as a filming location for the director’s new feature, Lincoln. The project’s filming in Richmond and Petersburg, and the state is likely to benefit to the tune of around USD35 million.
Spielberg has arrived in Richmond, Virginia, to film Lincoln, a story focussing on the last months of the President’s life. Petersburg is hosting the shoot too, but filming took place last week on location at northern Richmond’s Laburnum House, a building dating to the early 1900s.
It’s been another busy week for the commercials industry in South Africa, Australia and Spain. Meanwhile, several film commissions are looking for ways to boost their international profiles. In addition we’ve had fascinating insight from West Virginia-based Location Manager Tom Trigo, as well as Rex Baldwin.
Australia wants more US co-productions coming its way and Ausfilm is having a week of events in Los Angeles to stoke up business. There are screenings, development lunches, and renewed focus on Australia’s filming incentive schemes that include a 40% Producer Offset.
Canada’s film and TV industries made almost CAD7 billion for the national economy in 2010, according to figures from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Major projects like Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and a new Superman film could lift the figure higher in 2011.
Filmmakers can get terror insurance in a bid to encourage them to film on location in Israel, according to the Associated Press. Israeli authorities are trying to open up the country’s screen industries so the policy provides coverage against terror attacks and acts of war disrupting filming.
A new competition could help long-term plans to raise Montana's profile as a production centre in the US. The Montana Film Office is offering production equipment and services worth USD20,000 to a filmmaker who can give the best reason why their project should be filmed in Montana.