Filmmaker Ridley Scott is an executive producer on a new Civil War miniseries that will film in Virginia. The state has hosted numerous Civil War productions in recent years, including Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning Lincoln and the TV drama Turn: Washington’s Spies.
Hawaii location filming for Jurassic World had a big impact on the US state’s production industry. The dinosaur sequel was shot partly on the island of Kauai County north-west of Honolulu and producers spent around USD 3 million locally.
Japanese feature film Persona Non Grata recently wrapped a shoot in Poland. Produced by Cine Bazar of Tokyo and set during World War Two, the movie tells the true story of a Japanese diplomat based in Lithuania who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis.
Biblical screen stories are enjoying a surge in popularity, with Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings planning to emulate the global success of Darren Arronofsky’s Noah. However, a summer of violence in the Middle East means Israel is now losing out to Malta, Croatia and Morocco.
Filmmaker Oliver Stone will shoot in Munich, Germany, for a movie based on the story of former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden. Actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play the analyst who leaked secret government documents to the world's media.
Marvel and ABC are shooting new TV series Agent Carter in Los Angeles. The drama will be set in 1946 and follows the adventures of Hayley Atwell’s Agent Peggy Carter after the events of Marvel’s 2011 superhero movie Captain America: The First Avenger, where Carter first appeared.
Steven Spielberg has added the city of Wroclaw in south-west Poland to his list of filming locations for his new Cold War spy drama. Now called St. James Place, the movie stars Tom Hanks and is shooting mainly in New York and at Studio Babelsberg in Berlin.
Filmmaker David Ayer and his creative team recreated World War 2-era Germany in central England for the Brad Pitt tank movie Fury. The film follows the exploits of an American tank crew – manning a tank nicknamed ‘Fury’ – in the dying days of the war in 1945.