Amazon adventure movie Lost City of Z has started filming in Belfast and will later shoot on location in Colombia. The Northern Ireland capital offers Titanic Studios, where HBO’s hit fantasy drama Game of Thrones is based.
Pulse Films shot on location in Teruel, eastern Spain, for a new promo for the Chemical Brothers track Sometimes I Feel So Deserted. Framed like an extract from a surreal road movie, the film follows an apparently injured woman fleeing determined pursuers.
Eight studio features have secured initial approval for filming incentive support from California’s boosted tax credit programme. The highest-profile movie is supernatural sequel Conjuring 2 and several of the approved productions will shoot outside Los Angeles’ 30-Mile Zone.
New period series The Durrells will film on the Greek island of Corfu. The drama will follow the true-life escapades of Louisa Durrell, a widow who moved her family to Corfu in 1935. The Durrells is the latest in a growing period sub-genre that includes Channel 4’s Indian Summers.
Disney’s ABC Studios has started filming a second series of the fairy tale comedy Galavant at The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol. Galavant will spend 16 weeks shooting on purpose-built sets in the Tank House 3 space.
Authorities in Thailand have announced plans to launch a filming incentive programme for the first time. The country attracts hundreds of international productions every year but has had only limited success with high-profile western shoots.
Plate shots for the ‘Giant’s Land’ of Steven Spielberg’s film of Roald Dahl’s The BFG have been shot on the Isle of Skye in western Scotland. Skye is becoming more popular as a filming location and will appear in Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Macbeth, starring Michael Fassbender.
New sci-fi film SFv1 is set to shoot on location in Sydney and in Outback regions of South Australia. The movie will tell a rescue story in a future where humanity has colonised other planets.