Northern Ireland has secured its first Bollywood location shoot, with 1970s-set gangster comedy David filming scenes in Belfast. The city was chosen after a contingent visited India earlier this year in a trip organised by Invest Northern Ireland (NI).
Lionsgate will film Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire largely on location in Georgia and Hawaii. It’s a disappointment for North Carolina, which hosted the first film and made around USD60 million from the extensive shoot.
The Location Guide has partnered with the Ciclope International Advertising Craft Festival, which takes place in Buenos Aires from November 5th to 8th 2012. The festival specifically recognises the craft of storytelling in international commercial production and 2012 marks its third year.
A new report has concluded that the UK gets a return of GBP12 for every pound invested in its location filming tax credit. The report also found that without the tax credit the UK’s filming industry would be less than 30% of its current size.
Marvel’s superhero sequel Iron Man 3 will be filming in Greater Fort Lauderdale near Miami, Florida, from October 2012 after several months spent in North Carolina. The shoot comes a year after Tom Cruise’s high-profile Rock of Ages recreated Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip in Miami.
Alaska has issued its second-largest filming incentive payment to serial killer drama Frozen Ground. The feature shot in the state in the second half of 2011 and was awarded just over USD6 million after spending nearly USD20 million locally.
A farming town in Southern California has cut down its palm trees to make it feel more like generic small-town America. The changes in Fillmore aren’t for a specific production but in the past the palm trees have lost the town filming business.
[slideshow id=308]Andrea is a Location Manager working in the southern region of Italy. He works on commercial film productions and photo shoots.