Wartime TV drama Home Fires will film a second series on location in Cheshire, northern England. Set during the Second World War, the drama follows a group of women keeping up morale and their community spirit in an English village.
In the summer of 2014 Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Captain America descended on a large lake in a wooded part of rural north-east Hampshire to film Avengers: Age of Ultron. The Marvel production is one of the latest high-profile shoots to come to Hampshire.
New drama Tatau filmed on location on the Cook Islands and launched over the weekend on BBC3. The series follows two young Britons who find they have been given the power to see into the future by way of a mysterious Maori tattoo.
Harry Potter and period drama Downton Abbey helped drive film tourism in England in 2014. Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, and the Dorset filming locations used for child murder drama Broadchurch, contributed to an overall spend of up to GBP 140 million.
RSJ Films and See-Saw Films shot partly on location near Sydney for the BBC’s new period drama series Banished, devised and written by Jimmy McGovern. The story is inspired by the establishment of the British First Fleet’s penal colony in Australia in the late 18th century.
Location One has become the latest company to open an office at The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol, in the west of England. The firm supplies equipment and services for location filming and has worked on major productions like Downton Abbey, Skyfall and Thor: The Dark World.
Hampshire in the south of England had a strong 2014, hosting nearly a dozen feature films and five high-profile TV shoots. Superhero sequel The Avengers: Age of Ultron and Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible 5 were among the biggest feature productions.
Historic National Trust properties in the UK are hoping for a film tourism boost when they appear in the BBC’s period drama Wolf Hall in 2015. Television drama Downton Abbey and movies like Tim Burton’s recent Alice in Wonderland have all boosted visits to UK stately homes.