Filming has started on location in Prague for the second season of the BBC’s adventure series The Musketeers. As with the first series, the drama is doubling the Czech Republic for 17th Century Paris in a story inspired by Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel.
The Governor of New York Andrew M Cuomo has called for long-running chat programme the Late Show to continue filming on location in New York City when current host David Letterman retires in 2015. Comedian and satirist Stephen Colbert is set to take over hosting duties.
Bollywood star Salman Khan is filming his new movie Kick on location in Warsaw, central Poland. Khan is scheduled to film in the city throughout April and the movie will also shoot on location in Mumbai.
Tunisia plans to boost regional film tourism by preserving a desert set built for the Star Wars prequels in the late 90s. The seventh Star Wars film is rumoured to feature a return to the desert world of Tatooine, a key location in the Star Wars universe.
Game of Thrones will keep filming on location in Northern Ireland for its fifth season, the Northern Ireland Executive has confirmed. Cable network HBO has announced it will make at least two more seasons of the fantasy drama, which has just launched its fourth series.
Amazon Studios has ordered two new TV pilots. The Cosmopolitans will focus on a group of young people living in Paris and will film on location in the French capital. Hand of God is a vigilante drama that will shoot in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California.
A politician in the Philippines has pushed for a formal filming incentive to attract more productions on the scale of Manila-filmed spy thriller The Bourne Legacy. The ‘Fostering Investment through Local and International Movies (FILM) Act’ calls for a points-based incentive.
New Netflix drama series Marco Polo will film on location in Italy and Kazakhstan, as well as at Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios. The series is being produced by The Weinstein Company and will follow the adventures of the legendary 13th Century traveller.