France is planning to amend part of its filming incentive laws to ensure Luc Besson’s big-budget movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets shoots in Paris. Besson’s film had initially been denied filming incentive support as a French film because it will shoot in English.
Authorities in Liverpool in north-west England are to consider a plan to create an adapted studio facility. The city is a popular filming location particularly for British TV productions but has also hosted big-budget Hollywood shoots like Captain America: The First Avenger and Kenneth Branagh’s spy movie Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.
Peter Chelsom’s new science-fiction film The Space Between Us is set to shoot on location in New Mexico. The movie stars Asa Butterfield as a boy born and raised in secret on a Mars colony, who returns to Earth at 16 years old to search for his true love.
A second series of the BBC’s period drama Poldark is filming at The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol in the west of England. The new series is set in 1790 and follows Ross Poldark’s attempts to save his tin mine and escape the hangman’s noose as he’s accused of inciting revolution.
New filming facility Belfast Harbour Studio is planned for construction to help increase production in Northern Ireland’s capital. The city is best known as the home of the fantasy series Game of Thrones but is also popular for shows like the BBC’s serial killer drama The Fall.
Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass are filming scenes for a new Jason Bourne action adventure in Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The movie is the third the pair has made together in the gritty spy franchise that follows the exploits of a former CIA assassin.
A popular reality TV show watched by some 75 million people in China could help boost film tourism when it shoots in Western Australia (WA). The show Where Are We Going, Dad? features Chinese celebrity fathers taking their sons on adventures in exciting parts of the world.
Skye in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides will be a key part of a film tourism campaign from VisitScotland focussing on Michael Fassbender’s upcoming adaptation of Macbeth. The new film was directed by Justin Kurzel and co-stars Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth.