Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are filming a Cold War thriller in New York and in Berlin from Studio Babelsberg. Currently untitled, the film tells the true story of a US attorney asked by the CIA to negotiate the release of a U-2 spy plane pilot captured by the Russians during the Cold War.
Tom Cruise filmed his new sci-fi feature Edge of Tomorrow entirely on location in London, basing the production at Warner Bros Studios Leavesden. The film follows Cruise’s initially hapless spin doctor trapped in a time loop in the middle of a brutal alien invasion.
Channel 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox Entertainment Studios will film new sci-fi drama miniseries Humans on location in the UK. Set in a parallel present, the story focuses on a busy father who buys an artificial ‘Synth’ servant to help him in his family life, but the decision has chilling consequences.
Cable channel Syfy will film TV miniseries Ascension in Montreal, Canada. The series will follow a murder investigation on a vast interstellar space mission launched at the height of the Cold War. X-Men: Days of Future Past has been among the recent high-profile films shooting in the city.
Dinosaur sequel Jurassic World and sci-fi sequel Terminator: Genesis will be among the big-budget productions filming in New Orleans over the coming months. A reboot of superhero franchise Fantastic Four is scheduled to film in Baton Rouge.
John Bernard started his career working on features in the Dordogne in south-west France, before learning his craft at Pinewood Studios in the UK. Now he runs Jake Productions in Monaco and its French partner Peninsula Film in Paris, and has worked on shoots including Martin Scorsese's Hugo.
New action fantasy movie I, Frankenstein filmed on location in Melbourne, Australia. Based on a graphic novel, the film follows Frankenstein’s monster in a dystopian city 200 years after he was created in the events of Mary Shelley’s original book.
A filming incentive deal helped secure new AMC TV war drama Turn for a location shoot in Virginia, rather than Georgia. The series stars British actor Jamie Bell and follows the spy ring that helped George Washington win America’s Revolutionary War in the late 18th Century.