Steven Spielberg is developing a feature through DreamWorks Studios that is partly set in Kashmir. He won’t direct the project, but it will be produced in conjunction with DreamWorks’ partner in India.
Skunk doubled Romania and the Bulgarian coast for 19th Century Northern Ireland in a new spot for Jameson Whiskey. Iron Horse features John Jameson rescuing a cargo of whiskey barrels and women from a runaway train before it plunges over a cliff top.
The BBC’s Top Gear team is filming a supersonic car sequence this week on location in New Zealand. Ninety Mile Beach lies north-west of Auckland on the country’s North Island and the production team will be in the area for six days.
Cloud-based software is helping ease the process of location filming in the majority of London’s boroughs. FilmApp is designed to streamline location filming applications and connect Location Managers and Producers with the relevant organisations and resources.
Creative Scotland has criticised a decision to reduce the number of staff who promote location filming in Edinburgh. Marketing Edinburgh promotes the Scottish capital to the world but announced it will be reducing the size of its locations team.
[slideshow id=351]Traktor built a lemon grove and a Parisian street on location in southern India for a new commercial for banking giant HSBC. The spot shows a small American girl meeting a new supplier in India for her multinational lemonade stand while she co-ordinates on the phone with her ‘branch’ in France.
Western New York has lost the chance to host Kevin Costner’s new baseball feature Draft Day because Ohio offered better location filming incentives. Despite intense negotiations in New York, the production will make script changes and save about USD3.5 million filming in Cleveland.
World War I feature The Wipers Times has started filming in Northern Ireland, doubling the region for Belgium and London. Set in 1916, it tells the true story of a satirical newspaper that was published for troops on the Western Front when soldiers found an old printing press in Ypres.