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Dwayne Johnson to film disaster feature San Andreas on location in Australia
Action star Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson will film big-budget disaster movie San Andreas on location in Queensland, doubling the Australian state for California. Johnson will play a helicopter pilot searching for his daughter in the aftermath of an earthquake that…
The Inbetweeners Movie 2 filming on location in Australia and in UK
Comedy sequel The Inbetweeners Movie 2 will film scenes on location in Australia before moving back to the UK in January 2014. The first movie – made as a continuation from the hit school-set TV series – was the most…
From Dusk Till Dawn TV miniseries filming on location in Texas
A TV miniseries based on the Robert Rodriguez road-movie horror From Dusk Till Dawn is filming in Austin, Texas. Quentin Tarantino wrote and co-starred in the original 1996 film that followed a group of misfits fighting vampires in a desert…
East Coast-set TV productions win California On Location Awards
Location professionals from TV productions set on the East Coast but filmed in Los Angeles took the big prizes at this year’s California On Location Awards (COLAs), held at the weekend. Work on The Hangover III and Liberace biopic Behind…
Louisiana begins review of state location filming incentive
Louisiana has begun a review of its location filming incentive. The state offers an uncapped 30% filming tax credit that's helped attract movies on the scale of Ender's Game, but the programme is expensive and there’s pressure to redirect funds…
Propeller Film shoots with Kevin Spacey in New York for Bank Zachodni
Propeller Film shot on location in New York with Kevin Spacey for a series of commercials for Poland-based Bank Zachodni. Faced with a tight filming schedule, New York service company MediaCombo Productions had a challenge on its hands securing locations…
Edmund Hillary Everest docudrama Beyond the Edge films in New Zealand
New Everest feature Beyond the Edge filmed in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, which doubled for the Himalayan peak. The movie takes a docudrama approach to the first officially successful ascent of Everest in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund…
Matthew McConaughey feature Dallas Buyers Club doubles Louisiana for Texas
Feature film Dallas Buyers Club, whose star Matthew McConaughey is being widely tipped for an Oscar nomination, filmed on location in New Orleans, doubling the Louisiana city for Dallas, Texas. The film tells the true story of a bigoted electrician…
New atomic bomb drama series Manhattan to film on location in New Mexico
New TV drama Manhattan will film on location in New Mexico in the coming months. The series will tell the story of the infamous Manhattan Project, which led to the creation of the atomic bomb in Alamos, New Mexico, in…
Sci-fi feature Elysium films Mexico City doubling for dystopian Los Angeles
Sci-fi feature Elysium filmed partly on location in Mexico City, doubling the region for a dystopian Los Angeles. The film is set 150 years in the future on an Earth divided between a poverty-afflicted surface population and an orbiting luxury…