New Doctor Who spinoff series Class will film Wales as London for a Young Adult (YA) audience. The drama will be set in the Doctor Who universe and will be set in a London school with a tone that’s being compared to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Hunger Games.
A business park in East London wants to establish itself as a major studio facility in the capital. Londoneast-uk Business and Technical Park in Dagenham has already hosted high-profile shoots like Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron and British drama Humans in its industrial buildings.
Camera systems provider Panavision is opening a satellite office at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Georgia. The announcement comes soon after confirmation that Thor: Ragnarok will film at the studio, which will be Marvel’s fourth Atlanta-based production.
The UK’s advertising industry has raised more than GBP 30,000 in a special event to help Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders and their work with refugees. A night of fundraising saw the industry join forces with the Advertising Producers Association (APA).
[slideshow id=407]Malaga overlooks the Mediterranean on Spain’s Costa del Sol in Andalusia. The Location Guide was invited to spend a few days touring the region to see what’s on offer for the international production industry just as Spain’s new 15% filming incentive becomes active.
Authorities in Liverpool have approved plans to spend GBP 25 million converting the city’s former Littlewoods Building into new TV and film studios. The aim is to attract more movies to the city, as well as high-end television dramas like Peaky Blinders, which shot scenes locally.
New mountaineering drama Everest filmed at altitude in Nepal and Italy, while elaborate sets were built in Rome and London. The movie is based on the true story of climbers caught in a severe storm on Everest in 1996, which until recently was the mountain’s worst ever disaster.
The Production Guild of Great Britain has recognised the UK team behind 24: Live Another Day at its 2015 awards ceremony. Iain Smith, a producer and chairman of the British Film Commission, and his team took the award for Production Guild Member/Team of the Year.