Finnish Lapland Film Commission has joined The Location Guide as a partner for our Soiree at the Cannes Lions Festival. The commission was founded in 2008 and facilitates projects filming in Finnish Lapland all the way from pre-production through to the end of the shoot.
Will Smith and director M Night Shyamalan travelled across the US and to Central America to film their sci-fi epic After Earth. Set a thousand years in the future, Smith and his real-life son Jaden star as father-and-son team Kitai and Cypher, who crash-land on a future Earth hostile to human life.
Reliable and generous location filming incentives in the UK helped secure some of this summer’s biggest movies over California and the wider US. Brad Pitt’s zombie drama World War Z and action sequel Fast & Furious 6 are among this year’s big UK-filmed summer movies.
Elements Production Services has joined The Location Guide as a partner for our Soiree at the Cannes Lions Festival. The production service company was set up in 1999 in New Delhi and specialises in commercials, photo shoots and TV shows.
A veteran producer may film a fantasy feature on location in the Scottish Highlands. Barrie Osborne was involved with the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, and he’s now working on an adaptation of The Heartstone Odyssey.
Gareth Edwards’ new feature version of Godzilla will film monster chaos on location in Hawaii in the next few weeks. The movie has been based in Vancouver but will shoot scenes on the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Kauai.
Advertising Producers Association (APA) has joined The Location Guide as a partner for our Soiree at the Cannes Lions Festival. The APA represents the interests of UK production companies in the commercials industry, through production, post-production and visual effects.
California saw a surge of nearly 20% in the number of productions applying for its location filming incentive for the 2013/14 fiscal year. A record 380 separate projects applied for support and 28 have been approved for the state’s 20% filming tax credit.