Army bases owned by the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) in Scotland are being promoted as potential filming locations in a bid to attract more productions on the scale of World War Z. Landmarc Solutions has launched a new online portal with assistance from Creative Scotland.
'Hong Kong Day' will promote location filming in Hong Kong through the American Film Market (AFM) in Los Angeles. Screenings and a seminar will encourage more productions like Michael Bay’s Transformers sequel to shoot in the Chinese city.
Channel 4’s stylised TV drama Utopia has begun filming its second series on location in the city of York in northern England. The dark miniseries involves a group of disparate characters, a mysterious comic book that predicts world disasters, and a sinister criminal organisation.
Zack Snyder’s upcoming superhero follow-up – tentatively referred to as Batman Vs Superman – will film early footage on location in Los Angeles this weekend. Scenes will be shot at halftime during an American football game at East Los Angeles College (ELAC) Weingart stadium.
Upcoming Man of Steel follow-up Batman Vs Superman will film on location in Detroit, Michigan. Shooting will take place in the first quarter of 2014 and the movie will get a filming incentive payment of around USD35 million on planned local expenditure of about USD131 million.
Chicago is hosting a summer of location filming spearheaded by the latest Transformers movie and the Wachowski siblings’ new sci-fi feature Jupiter Ascending. The city will also be hosting six ongoing television series.
Pennsylvania has failed to remove the annual spending cap from its filming incentive programme for the next fiscal year. The state has a 25% filming tax credit but the annual film fund is worth only USD60 million and this figure is usually fully allocated within just a few months.
A senator in Pennsylvania has pledged to introduce legislation to remove the annual cap on the US state’s location filming incentive programme. The move could help Pennsylvania attract more features on the scale of Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises.