John Travolta’s new thriller Criminal Activities will film on location in Cleveland, Ohio, after securing a filming incentive payment. Ohio offers a base filming incentive of 25% and recent high-profile features have included The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
The BBC will be filming its new period drama Poldark partly on location at the historic Chavenage House near Bristol in south-west England. Mammoth Screen is basing Poldark at Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios that recently hosted Channel 4 production New Worlds.
Vittorio is a TV producer and reporter with an expert knowledge of Rome and the surrounding area. In the late 90s he started a TV production company and a TV production services company, before going freelance in 2007.
[slideshow id=390]Spring has brought foreign filmmakers to Poland. As Film Commission Poland (FCP) reports, a big Indian production is about to wrap in Warsaw, another Bollywood film is coming to Krakow, a BBC crew has toured the country by train and AXN will shoot on the coast.
Clint Eastwood is recreating Afghanistan partly on location in California for his new movie American Sniper. Bradley Cooper stars in the true story of Chris Kyle, a US Navy SEAL sniper who accumulated 160 confirmed kills over a career that included four tours in Iraq.
The UK and China have signed a new co-production treaty. Co-productions filming in the UK will have access to the British Film Institute (BFI) Film Fund and the UK's formal filming incentive programme, while co-productions in China will bypass the annual quota on international releases.
[slideshow id=389]Estonia’s AV sector is growing fast and more production houses from around the world are realising the country’s potential as a great location for shooting both commercials and features.
New Pictures is to film the period miniseries Indian Summers on location in Penang, Malaysia, which will double for early-1930s northern India. The production will be set in Simla, a “little England” at the foot of the Himalayas, and the story will chart the decline of the British Empire in India.