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Filming in the Australian outback
The outback usually evokes images of a silent, hot, empty void. But is it really like that? Well yes… and no. I suppose I should have some idea - I’ve lived smack bang in the middle of it for 23…
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.…
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…
Central London muddied up for The King’s Speech location filming
Taking the shine off modern-day London was one of the bigger issues faced by the production team on The King’s Speech. The story’s set during the 1930s when the city looked very different from the modern-day reality and Director Tom…
December location filming in LA rises 37%
The number of productions filming on location in Los Angeles during December 2010 rose by 37% compared to the same month in 2009, according to figures from FilmLA. Despite launching a tax credit of up to 25% for qualifying productions…
Glenn Close film shooting on location in Dublin
Glenn Close is the producer, co-writer and star of Albert Nobbs, which is filming on location in Dublin for the next few weeks. The story’s set in Victorian Dublin in 1898. Several other countries were considered as shoot locations before…
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…
Rubles and the Red Square: On location in Russia
Above all else you need to have one thing when filming in Russia - cash, and lots of it. Much has changed since the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia (or at least the twin cities of Moscow and St…