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Nashville TV series to continue filming on location in Tennessee for second season
Television drama series Nashville will get filming incentive support to continue filming on location in its namesake city in Tennessee for its second season. The show follows a fading Nashville singer forced to team up with a young starlet to…
Company Pictures films historical miniseries The White Queen in Belgium for BBC
New historical miniseries The White Queen recreated medieval England by filming on location in Belgium with Company Pictures. An adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s novel series The Cousin’s War for BBC One, the drama is set during epic dynastic conflict the…
Nevada announces location filming incentive of up to 19% for 2014
Nevada has announced a location filming incentive worth up to 19% of local expenditure and the programme will become available in January 2014. Productions will need to film at least 60% of their project in-state and spend a minimum of…
Sky period TV drama Moonfleet to film in Ireland doubling for Dorset
Satellite broadcaster Sky will work with Element Pictures and Company Pictures to film a two-part television adaptation of period smuggling tale Moonfleet on location in Ireland. The novel was published in 1898 and is set in Dorset in the south…
Sleepy Hollow TV series to film supernatural mystery on location in North Carolina
A new TV adaptation of Sleepy Hollow, inspired by the classic Washington Irving short story, will film a full series on location in North Carolina. Tim Burton adapted the story as a 1999 feature starring Johnny Depp, with Christopher Walken…
JJ Abrams reveals California as his preferred Star Wars filming location
Filmmaker JJ Abrams has revealed he would have preferred to film the new Star Wars movie on location in California, rather than in the UK. Speaking at the Produced By Conference in Los Angeles, Abrams spoke of the inconvenience of…
Will Smith films sci-fi epic After Earth on location in US and Central America
Will Smith and director M Night Shyamalan travelled across the US and to Central America to film their sci-fi epic After Earth. Set a thousand years in the future, Smith and his real-life son Jaden star as father-and-son team Kitai…
UK filming incentives win Hollywood favour over US locations for summer movies
Reliable and generous location filming incentives in the UK helped secure some of this summer’s biggest movies over California and the wider US. Brad Pitt’s zombie drama World War Z and action sequel Fast & Furious 6 are among this…
Godzilla to shoot monster chaos filming on location in Hawaii
Gareth Edwards’ new feature version of Godzilla will film monster chaos on location in Hawaii in the next few weeks. The movie has been based in Vancouver but will shoot scenes on the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Kauai. “They'll…
EPM Asia Ltd shares production expertise with launch of filming fact sheet
Expedition and Production Management (EPM) Asia Ltd has launched the first in a planned series of fact sheets offering technical production advice for location filming. Steven Ballantyne started EPM Asia in London before moving to Hong Kong in 2010 and…