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Post-production company The Farm Group opens at Bottle Yard Studios
Post-production company The Farm Group has become the latest firm to open an office at The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol in western England. The Farm Group already has branches in London, Manchester and Los Angeles, and offers more than…
True life civil rights drama Loving to film on location in Virginia
Feature film Loving, based on the true story of a married interracial couple in Virginia who were arrested under race laws in 1958, will be filmed in the state. Virginia is a popular filming location for historical and period dramas…
Crime drama Ripper Street returning to film on location in Dublin
Period crime drama Ripper Street is returning and will continue to film in Dublin, using the Irish capital as a stand-in for Victorian London. Originally a BBC production, the series was cancelled and then dramatically resurrected by Amazon for online.…
Ron Howard and Tom Hanks filming Dan Brown novel Inferno in Italy
Ron Howard and Tom Hanks are filming the movie adaptation of Dan Brown’s Inferno on location in Italy, and in Budapest. Hanks resumes the role of Harvard professor Robert Langdon that he previously played in The Da Vinci Code and…
Marvel starts filming Captain America Civil War at Pinewood Atlanta
Marvel Studios has started shooting its latest superhero movie Captain America: Civil War on location at Pinewood Atlanta Studios. The film will follow on from the recently-released Avengers: Age of Ultron and will be the third movie to focus on…
Spanish heritage: Scouting filming locations in historical Catalonia
Catalonia in north-eastern Spain is building on its rich local filmmaking history by appealing more to the international production community. The Location Guide set out on a scouting trip hosted by the Catalunya Film Commission to explore the region’s sights…
History Channel to film new version of classic slavery drama Roots
History Channel is set to film a new adaptation of Roots, a true-life slavery drama that was first made into an award-winning miniseries in 1977. The story is based on a novel by African American writer Alex Haley, who traced…
Hampshire draws Hollywood blockbusters to English south coast
In the summer of 2014 Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Captain America descended on a large lake in a wooded part of rural north-east Hampshire to film Avengers: Age of Ultron. The Marvel production is one of…
British Film Commission fam trip takes North American TV delegates across UK
A week-long familiarisation (fam) trip organised by the British Film Commission has taken a North American delegation across the whole of the UK for the first time. The trip was designed to showcase the UK’s TV filming potential after recent…
Milk VFX to work on Sherlock and Beowulf from new Cardiff studio
Boutique visual effects company Milk is set to open a new studio in Cardiff and will start work on the upcoming Christmas special of Sherlock and ITV’s Dark Ages fantasy Beowulf. The company will also work on the new series…