A trio of Alaskan politicians are campaigning to extend the state’s existing filming incentives scheme beyond 2013. The current programme is only two years old but the various projects that have applied during that time could end up delivering more than USD100 million to the Alaskan economy.
[slideshow id=49]Mary Barltrop moved to Australia from London ten years ago and has become one of the country’s top Location Managers, working on Superman Returns, Australia and X-Men Origins: Wolverine as well as numerous TV shows.
[slideshow id=42]The outback usually evokes images of a silent, hot, empty void. But is it really like that? Well yes… and no. I suppose I should have some idea - I’ve lived smack bang in the middle of it for 23 years.
[slideshow id=45]Rustic log cabins clash with suave sophistication in the new commercial for the Mercedes CLS, which filmed in the forests around Vancouver. Escaped to the Mountains follows a man who’s given up his modern life to live in a lakeside cabin, only to stumble across the new Mercedes.
Republican Susana Martinez, the recently-elected Governor of New Mexico, is considering plans to reduce the state’s filming incentive by a dramatic 10% in line with efforts to cut public spending.
The Culture Minister for Alberta, Canada, will be spending most of next week in Los Angeles promoting Alberta as a filming location. Lindsay Blackett will be meeting with independent Producers and some of the major Hollywood studios between January 17th and 20th.
The number of productions filming on location in Los Angeles during December 2010 rose by 37% compared to the same month in 2009, according to figures from FilmLA.
Glenn Close is the producer, co-writer and star of Albert Nobbs, which is filming on location in Dublin for the next few weeks. The story’s set in Victorian Dublin in 1898.