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Queensland launches Reel Scout app to boost regional filming location library
Queensland in north-eastern Australia has launched Reel Scout, a new mobile app designed to boost the region’s library of filming locations. Ordinary citizens are being encouraged to register their homes and properties to expand available shooting options for producers. “Reel…
Take Down first film to receive funding from Wales Media Investment Budget
Thriller Take Down is to become the first feature to receive funding from the Welsh government’s new GBP30 million Media Investment Budget. Focussing on spoiled youths taken hostage at a school for troubled teens, the movie will shoot in Wales…
Tom Cruise brings alien warfare to London filming sci-fi movie Edge of Tomorrow
Tom Cruise filmed his new sci-fi feature Edge of Tomorrow entirely on location in London, basing the production at Warner Bros Studios Leavesden. The film follows Cruise’s initially hapless spin doctor trapped in a time loop in the middle of…
Prosum Inc films in northern India following culture of Tibetan Buddhist monks
Seoul-based production company Prosum Inc has been filming documentary Becoming Who I Was on location in the Ladakh region of northern India at the foot of the Himalayas. The production follows a young boy who has been 'recognised' as ‘Rinpoche’,…
Hemingway feature Papa organises historic Cuba location filming with US talent
A new feature charting the true-life friendship between writer Ernest Hemingway and young journalist Ed Myers in the late 1950s, filmed on location in Cuba. Papa is the first feature in half a century to shoot in Cuba with a…
Lionsgate starts filming sci-fi sequel Insurgent on location in Atlanta
Lionsgate has started filming its sci-fi sequel Insurgent on location in Atlanta. Set in a dystopian Chicago, the film will follow on from the events of Divergent, an adaptation of a popular Young Adult series of novels from author Veronica…
Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul opens refurbished West London Film Studios
Aaron Paul, star of the hit crime drama Breaking Bad, has opened the refurbished West London Film Studios in Hayes, along with studio owner Frank Khalid. The facility offers 105,000 square feet of studio space, including six stages and office…
Valérie Lépine-Karnik appointed new Chief Executive Officer of Film France
Valérie Lépine-Karnik has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer of Film France, taking over from Patrick Lamassoure. She brings a wealth of experience to the role and part of her focus will be on boosting France’s appeal for international…
Traktor films new Heineken Legend campaign on location in Hong Kong
Traktor filmed on location in Hong Kong for a new entry in Heineken’s Legends campaign. The City follows a man’s attempts to track down a beautiful woman in an exotic city when she leaves behind a set of business cards.…
New X-Men movie films mutant drama on location in Montreal
Bryan Singer filmed new superhero sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past on location in Montreal, Canada. Through a time travel storyline, the film unites the X-Men franchise’s original characters, Professor X, Magneto and Wolverine, with their younger incarnations from X-Men:…