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Robbers Dog films Auckland for Steinlager Rugby World Cup campaign
Robbers Dog built special period sets in an Auckland studio for a campaign for New Zealand beer brand Steinlager. Originals honours New Zealand’s 1905 Rugby World Cup team by recreating scenes showing the players warming up for an historic match…
Filming for Second World War story of USS Indianapolis wraps in Alabama
Location filming has wrapped in Alabama for USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, which recounts the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in the dying days of the Second World War. Alabama offers a 25% filming incentive for productions spending at least…
Tom Cruise films Mission: Impossible 5 in the UK, Morocco and Austria
London, Morocco and Vienna were chosen as the main filming locations for Tom Cruise’s action sequel Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. The movie follows the Impossible Mission Force as they track sinister organisation The Syndicate across the world. The new…
Georgia in western Asia plans filming incentive programme
Georgia is preparing to launch a filming incentive in early 2016. Positioned on the intersection between Europe and Asia, the country is planning to offer a 20% rebate for international productions filming locally, but details of the required minimum spend…
Angelina Jolie Pitt to film true-life Khmer Rouge drama in Cambodia
Angelina Jolie Pitt will direct First They Killed My Father in Cambodia later this year. The film is based on the childhood experiences of Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung, who was five years old when the brutal…
Crime drama Banshee chooses Pennsylvania base for new season filming
American crime drama Banshee is counting the benefits of filming in Pennsylvania, with its first single-town base. The series previously shot in North Carolina where several different locations had to be used to create the show’s Pennsylvania setting. Banshee relocated…
Period TV movie Harry Price: Ghost Hunter to film in London
New 1920s-set TV movie Harry Price: Ghost Hunter will film on location in London. Based on a novel by Neil Spring and inspired by a true story, the ITV film will follow the adventures of a ‘psychic researcher’ investigating an…
Star Trek 3 to film partly in Dubai
Star Trek Beyond, the third in the rebooted Star Trek franchise, will film scenes on location in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) later this year. The production is likely to be the biggest Hollywood shoot to have filmed…
UK period drama Tutankhamun to film on location in South Africa
A period drama telling the story of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the 1920s will be filmed on location in South Africa for ITV. British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Ancient Egyptian boy-king in…
Unofficial Chariots of Fire sequel films in China and North America
An unofficial sequel to the classic British movie Chariots of Fire is filming in China, as well as the US and Canada. The Last Race tells the true story of athlete Eric Liddell, a medal winner at the 1924 Paris…