Authorities in Los Angeles have extended filming fee waivers by five years and will also streamline the permitting process. The moves are designed to help ease production ahead of California’s filming incentive boost next year.
Filmmaker siblings Joel and Ethan Coen are helping boost California’s production industry by shooting their new movie Hail, Caesar! on location in Los Angeles. California’s uncompetitive filming incentive means that few features have been based in the state in recent years.
New Chinese movie Hollywood Adventures has become the largest Chinese-language film to shoot on location in Southern California. The production features three Chinese stars but has a US director and co-stars, and is mostly being crewed by Americans.
Mandi Dillin has worked on many of the biggest movies of recent years, including Inception, The Dark Knight Rises and now Interstellar for Christopher Nolan. She talks to The Location Guide about US production centres and her hopes for California’s film industry.
Authorities in Savannah, Georgia, have appointed a veteran filmmaker to promote the city as a key US movie location. Savannah recently hosted Channing Tatum’s male-stripper drama Magic Mike XXL and Ralph Singleton will work to continue boosting the city’s filmmaking profile.
Marvel and ABC are shooting new TV series Agent Carter in Los Angeles. The drama will be set in 1946 and follows the adventures of Hayley Atwell’s Agent Peggy Carter after the events of Marvel’s 2011 superhero movie Captain America: The First Avenger, where Carter first appeared.
Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford will film political drama Truth in Sydney, Australia. The movie will recount the true story of the 2004 news reports by veteran journalist Dan Rather that President George W Bush may have used his privilege to avoid serving in the Vietnam War.
Location filming for television productions in Los Angeles surged in the third quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2013, according to FilmLA. The city had a big success with television drama shoots, which rose 43%, while filming for drama pilots increased by 41%.