Somesuch filmed on location in New Zealand for a new spot promoting Asics’ running footwear. Entitled It's a Big World. Go Run It, the spot shows runners responding to a rallying call and jogging across cities, through forests and across mountains to converge on a remote ridge.
New period drama Agnus Dei has wrapped seven weeks of location filming in Poland. Based on a true story, the film is set in 1945 and follows a young intern with the French Red Cross helping repatriate French survivors of the German death camps.
Filmmaker Michael Bay is set to shoot the true-life rescue drama 13 Hours on location in Morocco and Malta. Set in the Libyan city of Benghazi, the film will tell the story of the 2012 terror attack on the city’s US compound and the Special Forces mission to rescue the staff.
New drama series Dig launches in the US tonight. Set in Jerusalem, the production started filming the city for real last summer before renewed violence flared between Israel and Gaza and producers decided to relocate to Croatia, with studio work shot in New Mexico.
Authorities in Spain are preparing to launch a new, simplified filming incentive programme designed to boost the country’s international appeal. Ridley Scott recently filmed Exodus: Gods and Kings in Andalucia and Spain plans to attract more shoots on a similar scale.
The Governor of Massachusetts has proposed cutting his state’s filming incentive to free up funds for other sectors of the economy. Massachusetts has hosted movies like The Fighter and American Hustle, but its 25% filming incentive is one of several in the US facing an uncertain future.
A second season of From Dusk Til Dawn: The Series, created by Robert Rodriguez, has started filming on location in Austin, Texas. The drama is based on the 1996 vampire movie of the same name that Rodriguez also directed, and which helped launch George Clooney’s movie career.
The UK and China have ratified a film co-production deal at the Great Festival of Creativity in Hong Kong. Official co-productions will get access to the UK’s filming incentives, while the deal also means that the UK industry will get better access to the lucrative Chinese market.