London Mayor, Sadiq Khan has announced that a task force consisting of BBP Regeneration, SQW and Professor Richard Miller of the University of Hertfordshire will investigate the economic feasibility of constructing a film studio in Dagenham.
South London is at the heart of Royle Productions’ latest commercial for Age UK, with scenes filmed on location in Clapham Junction and Battersea Rise. The spot encourages viewers to consider the issues that elderly people have to deal with in their local community.
Filming for the upcoming Han Solo spin-off has begun at Pinewood Studios in London. The yet-to-be titled film will be the second entry in the Star Wars anthology series, after Gareth Edwards’s Rogue One.
Black Panther, the eighteenth instalment in Marvel’s long-running cinematic universe has now entered into production. The film will head to South Korea for on location filming, and Atlanta for studio shoots.
Netflix’s homage to 1980’s science-fiction, Stranger Things, was this year’s surprise TV winner at the 2017 Screen Actors Guild Awards, taking home the accolade for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. The new series brought an end to Downton Abbey’s two year winning streak at SAG.
During the 2015-16 financial year, production activity in Queensland brought an inward investment of AUD203 million to the state.
Governor Nathan Deal has announced that 2017 is the ‘Year of Georgia Film’, taking advantage of the incredible USD7 billion taken in from production spending last year to promote Georgia’s potential as a film tourism destination.
The UK production industry saw its most successful year ever in 2016, taking in a total of GBP1.6 billion. Of the total spend, GBP1.35 billion was sourced from feature films while television productions brought in GBP478 million.