Film London has led a EuroScreen conference looking into the economic impact of screen tourism around the world. The event looked at how films like the Harry Potter series and TV dramas such as Wallander and Game of Thrones have benefitted their specific filming locations.
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.
The BBC has returned to Northern Ireland to film a second series of its hit crime drama The Fall. Set and shot in Belfast, the series continues the story of Jamie Dorman’s serial killer evading the police led by Gillian Anderson’s Detective Superintendent.
Shooting for the fifth season of HBO’s hit fantasy drama Game of Thrones has had an instant impact on film tourism in the town of Osuna in southern Spain. Servicing for the shoot has helped boost the town and an influx of fans has been an added benefit.
New supernatural TV series South of Hell will film on location in Charleston, South Carolina. The drama will be the second major TV series to film in the state following legal drama Reckless, which was cancelled after just one season.
Fantasy drama Game of Thrones has started its Spanish location filming with a shoot in Seville at the Real Alcazar de Sevilla. The show has already filmed scenes for the upcoming fifth series in locations across Croatia.
Tourism organisation Discover Northern Ireland has launched a new web page promoting the local filming locations used in the action drama Dracula Untold. The movie filmed in and around Belfast, and also further west in places like the Giant’s Causeway.
Hit fantasy drama Game of Thrones has started 33 days of filming in Dubrovnik, in the Dalmatia region of Croatia’s Adriatic coast. The show, in production on its fifth season, is a repeat visitor to the historic city, which stands in for the drama’s iconic Kings Landing location.