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Filming on location in Italy with Frisca Carapelli of the Scoutit team
Frisca Carapelli co-founded Scoutit in 2003 with five other experienced Location Managers, all of whom have a deep knowledge of Italian filming locations. The team has a collective background in garden design, line producing and casting, as well as location…
Surprise hit The Call makes unusual swap from Ontario to LA filming locations
Surprise hit The Call, a small-scale thriller starring Halle Berry, made the unusual move of switching filming locations at the last minute from Ontario to California. An earlier rejection for filming incentive support in Los Angeles was overturned and prompted…
Northern Ireland ministers celebrate new Game of Thrones series with HBO
Ministers from Northern Ireland joined cable channel HBO in the US to celebrate the new series of Game of Thrones, which is based in Belfast’s Titanic Studios facility. First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness also pitched…
Filming on location in Greenland with Mads Pihl of Destination Arctic Circle
Mads moved to Greenland from Denmark with his wife six years ago, leaving behind an academic career and profession as a social anthropologist. He now works for Destination Arctic Circle, which is one of five regional Destination Management Organisations in…
Major futuristic TV drama Defiance films on location in Ontario
New big-budget science-fiction TV drama Defiance filmed on location in Ontario, doubling it for the American mid-West. Set 40 years in the future, the story focuses on a lawman running a dystopian St Louis – renamed 'Defiance' – against a…
Proposed Arizona location filming incentive faces stiff opposition
A new location filming incentive programme put forward for Arizona faces stiff opposition locally. The state’s previous incentive expired in 2010 and wasn’t renewed so a Tucson senator is proposing a new 20% rebate with a USD70 million annual fund…
MJZ films on location in California’s San Pedro Harbor for Oreo life raft comedy
MJZ headed to San Pedro Harbor in Los Angeles to film a new comedy spot for Oreo cookies. Life Raft shows two shipwreck survivors lost at sea and arguing about whether the cookie or creme is the best part of…
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 to be New York’s largest location filming shoot
Superhero sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is set to become the largest production to film entirely in New York. Filming will take place on location throughout the state, as well as in three separate studio facilities in Brooklyn and on…
Sleepy Hollow TV pilot films on location in North Carolina
A TV pilot based on Washington Irving's 19th Century short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is filming on location in the Charlotte region of North Carolina. Tim Burton turned the story into a gothic horror in 1999 with Johnny…
Australia delays Location Offset rise and launches new $20m filming incentive
Australia has delayed a rise in its Location Offset and has instead launched a new filming incentive worth AUD20 million. Specific details are scarce but the new fund is designed to boost international interest in Australia as a filming location.…