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Set Report: Filming on location in Spain with horse racing firm ATG
“Welcome to the Moon!” The Location Guide hasn’t made the world’s first extraterrestrial set visit, but the comparison with the infamously desolate lunar landscape is nonetheless apt. I’m at the Rio Tinto mine an hour’s drive from Huelva, southern Spain.…
Sinking of the Laconia films on location in Cape Town
World War II TV drama The Sinking of the Laconia was filmed entirely in Cape Town. The programme tells the true story of a German U-boat that sank the eponymous vessel off the West African coast in 1942. The U-boat…
New Mexico considering slashing state filming incentive by 10%
Republican Susana Martinez, the recently-elected Governor of New Mexico, is considering plans to reduce the state’s filming incentive by a dramatic 10% in line with efforts to cut public spending. Slashing the incentive from 25% to 15% could have a…
Alberta Culture Minister due in Los Angeles to promote location filming
The Culture Minister for Alberta, Canada, will be spending most of next week in Los Angeles promoting Alberta as a filming location. Lindsay Blackett will be meeting with independent Producers and some of the major Hollywood studios between January 17th…
First ‘Hollywood-benchmarked’ studios launched in Mumbai
Mumbai is already a thriving filmmaking centre, but the city is gaining the first studios built to the Hollywood ‘benchmark’, meaning they’ve been constructed in line with “strict Hollywood compliant design specifications.” Reliance MediaWorks, DreamWorks’ partner, is behind the new…
Avengers to film on location in New Mexico
Marvel Studios’ new ensemble superhero feature The Avengers will film partly in New Mexico. The studio has previously filmed scenes there in 2010 for Thor. Louis D’Esposito, Co-President of Marvel Studios, said: “We are incredibly excited to be returning to…
On location in Turkey
Turkey has most of the ingredients a truly world-class international filming location needs. There is just one thing missing: incentives. But when you consider everything else it has going on, are tax credits really that important? The 21st Century will…
Location Manager Christian McWilliams talks to TLG
This month I talked to Christian McWilliams, the English Location Manager who has reinvented himself as the undisputed go-to guy for Morocco. We discussed Tony Scott, Peter Weir’s The Way Back, and the most beguiling, history-steeped studio in Africa: Atlas…
Filming in Morocco with Lasse Hallström
I was sitting on my terrace in Tenerife, sipping a beer, when I received the call to go to Morocco and UPM the Moroccan end of Salmon fishing in the Yemen, directed by Lasse Hallström. Many of my colleagues have…
BFI to take over most UK Film Council duties
It’s been confirmed that the BFI will take over most of the duties formerly carried out by the UK Film Council in the British film industry. There’ll also be a 60% increase in its Lottery funding, with GBP43 million being…