Peter Jackson’s first Hobbit movie helped boost film tourism to New Zealand in the first quarter of 2013. There was a 23% increase in the number of Americans visiting the country and about one in ten US visitors said the film affected their travel decisions.
Hawaii is hoping to broaden its appeal to films like the delayed Jurassic Park 4 by boosting its filming incentive programme. Places like Honolulu with larger populations will now offer filming tax credits of up to 20% (up from 15%), while the smaller islands will offer 25% (up from 20%).
The Location Guide is preparing for its Cannes Lions Soiree fringe event on the Majestic Pier on 19 June. Organised with our Soiree partners, the event will be a great opportunity to network with people from throughout the international advertising community.
Satellite broadcaster Sky will work with Element Pictures and Company Pictures to film a two-part television adaptation of period smuggling tale Moonfleet on location in Ireland. The novel was published in 1898 and is set in Dorset in the south of England.
HLA recreated a sense of rural Greek nostalgia filming on location in the country's Peloponnese region for Total Greek Yoghurt. Nineteen Twenty Thirteen shows a boy enjoying the yoghurt snack seemingly in the 1920s, before a smart phone chat gives away the modern setting.
A new TV adaptation of Sleepy Hollow, inspired by the classic Washington Irving short story, will film a full series on location in North Carolina. Tim Burton adapted the story as a 1999 feature starring Johnny Depp, with Christopher Walken as the Headless Horseman.
Filmmaker JJ Abrams has revealed he would have preferred to film the new Star Wars movie on location in California, rather than in the UK. Speaking at the Produced By Conference in Los Angeles, Abrams spoke of the inconvenience of moving his family to the UK for the shoot.
Finnish Lapland Film Commission has joined The Location Guide as a partner for our Soiree at the Cannes Lions Festival. The commission was founded in 2008 and facilitates projects filming in Finnish Lapland all the way from pre-production through to the end of the shoot.