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Naked and Marooned TV show films on location on remote Fiji island
Television survival show Naked and Marooned with Ed Stafford left the eponymous adventurer on a remote uninhabited island in Fiji, where he fended for himself for 60 days and filmed his own exploits. TLG talks to line producer Steven Ballantyne…
Location Manager JJ Hook: Challenges of filming action cinema
JJ Hook entered the production industry with a small job on drama Swept from the Sea in the late 90s. His career progressed to major action movies and in recent years he’s worked on Mission: Impossible III, Inception and Michael…
Jack the Giant Slayer creates fantasy kingdom on location in Norwich Cathedral
Bryan Singer’s epic fairytale fantasy Jack the Giant Slayer filmed on location in the UK, with studio bases at Elstree in Hertfordshire and Longcross in Surrey. Norwich Cathedral in eastern England was also used for interior scenes involving one of…
New York may target flagship Tonight Show with TV location filming incentive
New York may be targeting NBC’s flagship Tonight Show with a new filming incentive designed to attract established TV programmes to the Empire State. The Tonight Show has been based in Los Angeles since the early 1970s but a major…
Twilight author’s new film The Host changes setting to use Louisiana filming locations
Alien invasion movie The Host, based on a novel by Twilight author Stephanie Meyer, avoided the book’s California settings to keep production costs down. Filmmaker Andrew Niccol wrote the script and relocated early scenes from San Diego to Louisiana to…
Irish leader discusses location filming opportunities with Steven Spielberg
Ireland’s Prime Minister, known as the Taoiseach, has met with Steven Spielberg in Los Angeles to discuss Irish location filming opportunities. Enda Kenny confirmed that Ireland’s filming incentive programme will remain flexible. “[Mr Spielberg] is genuinely aware of the potential…
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…
Godzilla remake and Apes sequel to boost location filming in British Columbia
A pair of big-budget features is set to boost location filming in British Columbia in western Canada. Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla remake has started filming around Vancouver and science fiction sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes will shoot 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…