Fantasy movie The Scorch Trials is set to film on location in New Mexico through to January next year. The film is the follow-up to recent hit teen movie The Maze Runner and will follow a group of young adults struggling for survival on a future Earth ravaged by solar flares.
Savannah in Georgia is enjoying a profile boost as a filming location for Channing Tatum’s male-stripper sequel Magic Mike XXL, but the city has acknowledged the need for a larger local crew base. The movie is again based on Tatum’s life as a stripper before he became a Hollywood star.
Popular drama series Under the Dome will remain in North Carolina for its third season, despite an imminent downgrade in the state's filming incentive. Based on a story by Stephen King, the show follows a town's struggles when a giant dome mysteriously seals it off from the outside world.
The US Forest Service has clarified a proposal designed to better regulate commercial filming and photography in wilderness areas of the country. Johnny Depp’s The Lone Ranger was one major production that paid for a permit to film in New Mexico’s Santa Fe National Forest.
Filmmaker David Fincher filmed his new domestic thriller Gone Girl partly on location in Cape Girardeau, south-eastern Missouri. The film stars Ben Affleck as a husband facing a growing media circus in a small Mid-West community following the disappearance of his wife.
A reboot of the Vacation comedy movies of the 80s is set to film on location at Atlanta Film Studios (AFS) Paulding County, in Georgia. Atlanta is among the most popular production cities in the US, partly because of its base 20% filming incentive.
Marvel Studios’ superhero sequel Captain America 3 will film on location in Atlanta in the spring of 2015, becoming just the latest big-budget franchise to visit Georgia. Ant-Man is scheduled to visit the city in the coming weeks, marking Marvel’s first Atlanta shoot.
North Carolina has downgraded its filming incentive from a tax credit to an annual grant in a development that will make it less appealing to shoots like Under the Dome and Sleepy Hollow. The move comes after months of production lobbying to keep the state’s generous filming tax credit.