The BBC’s upcoming period drama series Dickensian may have to film on location in Eastern Europe due to a lack of UK studio space. Red Planet Pictures plans to build a portion of 19th century London for the shoot, which will be set across Charles Dickens’ literary world.
Location filming for Angelina Jolie’s World War II biopic Unbroken and Dwayne Johnson’s earthquake drama San Andreas has helped boost Australia’s international production spending by 50% in 2013/14. Altogether, Australia hosted nine foreign features and two foreign TV dramas.
The next Star Wars movie will be filmed at Pinewood Studios in London. Star Wars: The Force Awakens recently wrapped its Pinewood shoot as the first in a new trilogy and will be released in 2015. Gareth Edwards will direct the next film, a standalone movie, at Pinewood next year.
Victorian crime series Ripper Street returned to shoot its third season on location in Dublin, using the Irish capital as a stand-in for London. Filming locations included Clancy Barracks, Trinity College, Dublin Castle and Kilmainham Gaol, and the new series will be launched on 14 November.
London-based Somesuch filmed on location in Croatia and Slovenia for an innovative new web campaign promoting the Honda Civic Type R. The Other Side enables viewers to toggle between two separate but parallel stories involving a Honda drive during the day and at night.
Tom Cruise has filmed an aerial stunt for Mission: Impossible 5 at an RAF base in East Anglia in the UK. The action franchise is now well known for daring physical stunt work, with Cruise scaling Dubai’s Burj Khalifa for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol in 2011.
Television producers in London and Paris will take part in an exchange project later this month to encourage more TV co-productions and collaborations between the two cities. The week-long event involves Film London and the Ile de France Film Commission in Paris.
The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol in the UK have welcomed Radium Audio as a new tenant. Increasingly popular as a film studio facility, the Bottle Yard has hosted TV shows like supermarket comedy Trollied, historical drama Wolf Hall and the Disney series Galavant.