Actress Anne Hathaway is set to star in new TV miniseries The Ambassador’s Wife. Based on a fictional novel by Jennifer Steil, the wife of a former British Ambassador to Yemen, the story will focus on the wife of an ambassador kidnapped in a Middle Eastern country.
Michael Bay has been shooting true-life terrorism drama 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi in Mosta in central Malta. The film tells the story of the American government’s Special Forces response to terrorist attacks on US compounds in the Libyan city Benghazi in 2012.
New thriller The Lake is scheduled to start filming in Malta in July. Produced by French filmmaker Luc Besson and featuring Oscar-winner JK Simmons, the movie will follow Michael Bay’s 13 Hours as the latest high-profile movie to film Malta.
Thriller The Lake, produced by Luc Besson, is filming in several locations in Croatia for the next few weeks, having already shot in Germany. Oscar-winner JK Simmons stars in the tale of a group of US Navy SEALs who discover treasure in a lake in Bosnia during the conflict of the mid-1990s.
Authorities in Jordan are working towards offering stronger filming incentives to help the country compete with its international rivals. Ridley Scott’s upcoming sci-fi movie The Martian used Jordan as a stand-in for Mars and features Matt Damon as a stranded cosmonaut.
The Mayor of Jerusalem has announced plans to develop a film studio in his city to help boost the local economy. Jerusalem recently hosted productions from Natalie Portman and Richard Gere, and was also the initial filming location for the US drama series Dig.
A new trilogy of Western movies based on the Winnetou novels by bestselling 19th century German author Karl May is to film in Croatia. May’s stories of fictional Native American character Winnetou were first adapted for the screen in the 60s and were also shot in Croatia.
Malta has announced a production agreement with China is close and that the Maltese industry saw a huge increase in international spending in 2014. Transformers director Michael Bay is among the high-profile filmmakers planning a Malta shoot in the near future.