A USD30 million new film starring Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski is to begin shooting in Anchorage, Alaska, in the next few months. Everybody Loves Whales will be filmed on location as a result of the state’s recently-introduced filming tax incentives. The scheme enables productions to benefit from a transferable tax credit of up to 44%.
An executive from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) was among those testifying at a meeting in Secaucus, New Jersey, last week, according to the Star-Ledger. The meeting was held to hear arguments from people in favour of keeping the state’s 20% tax credit.
A meeting is scheduled for Wednesday this week in New Jersey that could lead to the state’s Film and Digital Media Tax Credit Program being halted for the next fiscal year.
The government in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, is to announce a AUSD25 million funding boost for existing filming incentives to encourage more production in the state.
The isolationist political regime of the last 50 years has made Cuba, the largest island of the Antilles, a timewarp of retro styling. As advertisers and filmmakers are finding, it’s also
The 193-acre baseball field built in Iowa for the filming of Kevin Costner classic Field of Dreams in 1989 has been put on the market.
Foreign productions looking to qualify for Australia’s Locations Offset scheme will no longer have to spend at least 70% of their total budgets in the country.
British Columbia in western Canada is steadily enhancing its reputation as a media production centre. The region offers landscapes including dense forests, deserts and mountains that are frequently used to double for places such as the Middle East, Mexico, Europe and even the US, despite sharing a border with the country.