New Superman film Man of Steel was one of the feature projects that helped deliver over CAD2 million for Vancouver Island in 2011. The island covers nearly 20,000 square miles and is a 20-minute flight from the city of Vancouver. It’s the largest island in the Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand.
The UK Government is being called on to boost British TV production by launching filming incentives similar to what’s already available for features. Producers say the UK is losing ‘cinematic’ TV like The Tudors to countries such as Ireland and Hungary that offer TV filming incentives.
It’s been weeks of careful filming in national parks and helicopter shoots for Peter Jackson and his Hobbit team. The filmmaker has recorded another video diary of his experiences shooting the films on location across New Zealand in footage that takes us up to mid-December of last year.
[slideshow id=258]Alberta in western Canada isn’t short on eye-catching natural vistas and many of these have been captured in a new tourism campaign. Circle Productions produced the new series of commercials compiling 16 separate spots that promote the province in both summer and winter.
San Francisco may be the setting for new TV show Alcatraz, but Vancouver is the main filming location. The JJ Abrams-produced show filmed exteriors in San Francisco for a few weeks last year, but the bulk of the first season’s shoot took advantage of British Columbia’s filming incentives.
A new Bollywood feature is set to film scenes on location in Melbourne in Victoria, south-east Australia. Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (Run Milkha Run) will be a biopic telling the story of Milkha Singh, a famous Indian runner nicknamed 'The Flying Sikh' who competed at his first Olympics in Melbourne in 1956.
Cape Town in South Africa doubled for Seattle for scenes in the new paranormal thriller Chronicle. Using a pseudo-documentary style, the film follows a group of Seattle teenagers who get special powers when they find a strange object in a nearby forest.
Oklahoma could lose its filming incentives as authorities plan ways to reduce the budget deficit. At the moment filming productions can get a rebate of up to 37% on eligible expenses, although the USD5 million annual film fund means the state's mainly appealing to low-budget shoots.