In a move that could curb what was a growing status as a production centre, New Mexico has added a USD50 million rolling cap to its filming incentive. The change has been in the works since Republican Susanna Martinez took over the Governor’s office, although her original plan was more drastic.
It’s a summer of superheroes in several US cities as the major studios’ 2012 release slates shape up. The Dark Knight Rises has been filming fight sequences and scenes involving the so-called Batwing in Pittsburgh, while Marvel has been wreaking havoc in Cleveland, Ohio, for The Avengers.
[slideshow id=124]Period cars and decor came to Manchester and Liverpool for the filming of Marvel’s comic book adaptation Captain America: The First Avenger. Much of the film was shot in the UK, with Stanley Dock in Liverpool and Dale Street in Manchester’s Northern Quarter doubling for 1940s New York City.
Ramping up its campaign to hold on to the state’s filming incentives, the Michigan Production Alliance has launched an ad parading hundreds of local filming professionals to emphasise how Michigan has benefitted from the scheme. Keep It Rolling is airing locally in cinemas and on TV.
The Location Guide has a booth at the Association of Film Commissioners International’s (AFCI) Location Trade Show 2011. This year the event is run in association with the Produced By Conference (PBC).
Superhero epic The Avengers has started filming in Albuquerque, New Mexico, uniting Marvel’s biggest characters into a single film. Over the next few months production is also scheduled for Cleveland, Ohio, and New York City.
In a high-profile case of incentives uncertainty scaring off major film productions, upcoming feature The Avengers has rejected a planned location shoot in Michigan for a better deal in Ohio. The film will also shoot in New Mexico and New York.
[slideshow id=47]“Welcome to the Moon!” The Location Guide hasn’t made the world’s first extraterrestrial set visit, but the comparison with the infamously desolate lunar landscape is nonetheless apt. I’m at the Rio Tinto mine an hour’s drive from Huelva, southern Spain.