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New Zealand to boost global TV production appeal with filming incentive changes
New Zealand will encourage more high-end TV productions of the calibre of Spartacus to film locally by making its filming incentives more accessible. From October 2013, the spending threshold for television productions to qualify for support will be sharply reduced.…
Filming historic Holland with location scout Harriet Sanders
Harriet was born and raised in Holland, and has lived in New York, Beijing, Surinam and Havana. She originally trained as a sculptress and art teacher, but fell into location scouting in the 90s when a photographer asked her for…
Wanda Productions and AllSaints use London heat for Thames filming
Wanda Productions and AllSaints Film – a new production company from retailer AllSaints – chose to capture London’s summer heat wave by taking a model onto the River Thames. Sun City shows a woman sunbathing on sand on a river…
Chicago prepares for Transformers 4 and Jupiter Ascending location filming
Chicago is hosting a summer of location filming spearheaded by the latest Transformers movie and the Wachowski siblings’ new sci-fi feature Jupiter Ascending. The city will also be hosting six ongoing television series. “We’ve always known that Chicago has beautiful…
Bollywood producers scout Ireland and Northern Ireland filming locations
A group of Bollywood producers and location scouts are exploring potential filming spots in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The trip has been arranged by Tourism Ireland in India and is designed to promote the regional production industry and boost film…
Scotland: Let me introduce myself
With over a third of the UK landmass, but populated by a mere 8% of the UK’s population, Scotland has more natural space and wilderness than practically any other European country. We can boast the UK’s highest mountains and deepest…
Hugh Jackman doubles Australia for Japan filming on location for The Wolverine
Superstar actor-producer Hugh Jackman filmed comic-book follow-up The Wolverine largely on location in Australia with director James Mangold. New South Wales filming locations doubled for Japan and the production based itself at Fox Studios in Sydney. While limited location filming…
Filming Canada: On location in Montreal
Montreal is getting an international profile boost with big-budget thriller White House Down, which recreates Washington, DC, in the Canadian city. Nicholas Barker of the Montreal Film and TV Commission talks to TLG about what the city has to offer.…
Major time-travel TV drama Outlander to be filmed on location in Scotland
Major TV drama Outlander will be filmed on location in Scotland from September 2013 and will use retrofitted studio facilities in Glasgow. Based on novels by Diana Gabaldon, the story involves time travel between events in Scotland in the 18th…
Fast & Furious franchise reaches out to fans for location filming ideas
The makers of the Fast & Furious action franchise have asked fans to suggest filming locations for the next movie. Fast & Furious 7 is scheduled for release in July 2014 and the filmmakers have used Facebook to ask for…