The director of Tom Cruise’s upcoming sci-fi movie Edge of Tomorrow has praised the UK’s production industry and London filming locations. For the project formerly known as All You Need Is Kill, Doug Liman directs Cruise as a soldier forced to repeatedly re-live his death in an alien war.
Period political drama Suffragette is to become the first film to shoot commercially on location in the Palace of Westminster in central London. The scenes will reportedly feature Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst, a key figure in the suffragette movement of the early 20th Century.
Marvel will film four new live-action superhero TV dramas and a miniseries on location in New York. The TV shows have been announced a year after The Amazing Spider-Man 2 became the biggest-ever feature to film entirely on location in New York.
South Africa has begun a ten-day location filming scout for executives from several of the top US studios. Filming locations and production infrastructure will be showcased as South Africa aims to attract more shoots on the scale of Black Sails.
Star J Entertainment in South Korea will film an adaptation of Israeli TV drama series Prisoners of War, which was remade in the US as Homeland. The new show will mark the original programme’s fourth adaptation and will focus on political tensions between North and South Korea.
Marvel has announced South Korea’s capital city Seoul as an additional filming location for its big-budget superhero sequel The Avengers: Age of Ultron. The movie brings together Marvel’s most popular comic book heroes for a second adventure.
A film version of video game franchise Angry Birds will follow British Columbia’s digital animation incentive to film in Vancouver with Sony Pictures Imageworks. The game was first launched as a smart-phone app in 2009 and has since been downloaded more than two billion times.
Ken Ziffren has been appointed the new ‘film czar’ for Los Angeles, faced with the task of boosting location filming in the city. Ziffren is an experienced entertainment attorney and succeeds Tom Sherak, who tragically died of cancer in January after only a few months in the role.