Nevada has had its state filming incentive largely defunded less than a year after its launch. The money has been redirected to help fund a billion-dollar incentive package that will bring manufacturing giant Tesla to the state to build a Gigafactory battery plant in Reno.
Louisiana remains confident that it will still have the edge when California boosts its filming incentives next year. The southern state has a 30% uncapped filming incentive and has recently doubled for California for features including Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Beer brand Bud Light has taken over the main street of a town in the US state of Colorado for a controversial new commercial campaign. Crested Butte will become ‘Whatever, USA’ for the weekend and the campaign will fly in a thousand young adult competition winners for a party in the town.
Marvel Studios’ superhero sequel Captain America 3 will film on location in Atlanta in the spring of 2015, becoming just the latest big-budget franchise to visit Georgia. Ant-Man is scheduled to visit the city in the coming weeks, marking Marvel’s first Atlanta shoot.
The chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has invited state film commissioners from across the US to a filming incentive summit in Washington, DC. On 29 September Chris Dodd will talk about improving support for incentive programmes.
Oscar-winner Adrien Brody has started filming the historical feature Emperor on location near Prague. The Czech Republic is currently a popular place for period dramas, with the BBC also working in the region for a new series of The Musketeers.
Australia has offered Disney a filming incentive payment of a little over AUD 20 million in a bid to lure Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The studio reportedly plans to shoot the fifth film in the adventure franchise next year but the filming location has not yet been confirmed.
A new series of children’s superhero drama Power Rangers will return to film on location in Auckland and is set to boost the country’s TV industry. Power Rangers Dino Charge will be the highest-profile international TV series to film in New Zealand since the incentive programme was increased.