Wondros filmed different racing vehicles on location in Chile for a new commercial for engine oil brand Mobil 1. Set in the US and Russia, Our Normal promotes the brand’s qualities by following racing drivers in wildly contrasting environments.
The producers of terrorism drama Homeland have praised their new South Africa filming locations as the show begins its fourth season. Homeland was based in North Carolina for three seasons but switched to South Africa shortly before the US state downgraded its filming incentive.
Black Diamond filmed on location on a glacier in Verbier, Switzerland, for a new commercial for the Nissan Juke. The spot shows Olympic medallist snowboarder Jenny Jones showing off her skills on a mountainside of multicoloured snow and through an urban snow park.
Rafting Alaska is set to become the latest reality series to film on location in The Last Frontier state. Produced by National Geographic Channel, the show will follow log rafters who travel the Yukon River in Alaska collecting and selling logs to local villages and townships in the wilderness.
New vampire origin story Dracula Untold filmed on location in Northern Ireland, doubling the region for Eastern Europe. Set in the mid-15th century, the movie follows Prince Vlad as he becomes the eponymous vampire in order to save his people from a marauding Turkish army.
Disney has chosen to film on location in Queensland, Australia, for its fantasy sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The movie will get a filming incentive payment of AUD 21 million and production will also take place at Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast.
Eight-part TV miniseries The Kettering Incident will film on location in the Australian state of Tasmania through to December. The drama will be Tasmania’s biggest ever production and the highest-profile local shoot since Willem Dafoe’s The Hunter in 2012.
The US Forest Service has clarified a proposal designed to better regulate commercial filming and photography in wilderness areas of the country. Johnny Depp’s The Lone Ranger was one major production that paid for a permit to film in New Mexico’s Santa Fe National Forest.