Film Offices UK (FO:UK) will make their first public appearance as a collective at this year’s FOCUS event. FO:UK is comprised of the country’s leading film offices, allowing them to share their resources and experience to provide Producers with an optimum filming experience.
Filming has commenced on the new BBC Two comedy Quacks, with the production currently on location at the Historic Dockyard Chatham in Kent. The series will poke fun at the early days of medical science in 1840s Britain, when surgical mishaps were aplenty and some procedures came down to guesswork.
The Location Managers Guild International (formerly the Guild of America) will be returning as an exhibitor at this year’s FOCUS event. Mick Ratman will be leading the exhibition with a number of guild members including Angus Ledgerwood (Kong: Skull Island), Graeme MacKenzie (Broadchurch) and Chris Morgan (Houdini and Doyle).
Christchurch Hill in North-West London features as a major location in Robert Zemeckis’s war-time drama Allied, starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard. The production took over the London street in March 2016 before visiting Hampstead Heath and Blythe House in West Kensington.
Courtesy of David Reviews, the Advertising Producers Association, The Beak Street Bugle, Bartle Bogle Hegarty and Barclay’s Spectrum, this year’s FOCUS event in London will feature five new presentations addressing contemporary topics concerning the advertising industry today.
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant has laid out his intention to allow the state’s film incentive programme to sunset in 2017. Bryant’s proposed budget for the 2018 fiscal year which begins July 1st, brings the investment of the state incentive into question and criticises its long-term value.
NYC & Company, the city’s official marketing organisation has produced a film tourism campaign to capitalise on the predicted success of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
A feature film biopic on the life of the renowned French artist, Paul Gauguin has now completed filming on the island of Tahiti. Directed by Edouard Deluc and staring Vincent Cassel (Jason Bourne) as Gauguin himself, the local production service company Filmin’Tahiti was utilised for on location assistance.