A business park in East London wants to establish itself as a major studio facility in the capital. Londoneast-uk Business and Technical Park in Dagenham has already hosted high-profile shoots like Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron and British drama Humans in its industrial buildings.
The Sixth Annual US-China Film Summit will spotlight China’s investments in Hollywood and look at new ways the US and China could collaborate. Chinese director Zhang Yimou and Zhang Zhao, head of private-sector studio Le Vision Pictures, will both be honoured at the summit.
The UK’s advertising industry has raised more than GBP 30,000 in a special event to help Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders and their work with refugees. A night of fundraising saw the industry join forces with the Advertising Producers Association (APA).
American commercial production companies filmed a third of their international shoots in Europe and the UK in 2014, according to a new report from the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP). Production expenditure also rose 14% on the previous year.
[slideshow id=407]Malaga overlooks the Mediterranean on Spain’s Costa del Sol in Andalusia. The Location Guide was invited to spend a few days touring the region to see what’s on offer for the international production industry just as Spain’s new 15% filming incentive becomes active.
Authorities in Liverpool have approved plans to spend GBP 25 million converting the city’s former Littlewoods Building into new TV and film studios. The aim is to attract more movies to the city, as well as high-end television dramas like Peaky Blinders, which shot scenes locally.
Thailand is planning to launch its first formal filming incentive programme in 2017, with the first payments available a year later. The government is looking to launch a 15% tax rebate, with a per-production cap equivalent to about USD 5.6 million.
Jackie Chan's new historical action movie Dragon Blade co-stars US actors John Cusack and Adrien Brody and showcases a shifting strategy in Chinese filmmaking. The country is looking to assert itself internationally by working with American talent and investing in Hollywood shoots.