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Nashville TV series to continue filming on location in Tennessee for second season
Television drama series Nashville will get filming incentive support to continue filming on location in its namesake city in Tennessee for its second season. The show follows a fading Nashville singer forced to team up with a young starlet to…
Man of Steel films Superman adventure on location in Illinois and British Columbia
Man of Steel tells Superman’s origin story as the baby Kal-El is sent from Krypton to Earth and then, as an adult, is pitted against the ruthless General Zod. Director Zack Snyder filmed on location across British Columbia in western…
Major co-producer urges Australia to improve location filming incentives
Village Roadshow Entertainment Group CEO Greg Basser has urged Australia to boost its location filming incentives. He said it was the best way to enable the country’s production industry to compete internationally. Speaking at Screen Australia’s policy conference in Canberra,…
Colorado filming incentive helps secure first dramatic TV series for 20 years
Colorado’s filming incentive has helped secure the mid-western state’s first dramatic TV series in more than 20 years. Hallmark Channel is to film period drama When Calls the Heart on location in Telluride in the next few weeks. “We are…
Company Pictures films historical miniseries The White Queen in Belgium for BBC
New historical miniseries The White Queen recreated medieval England by filming on location in Belgium with Company Pictures. An adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s novel series The Cousin’s War for BBC One, the drama is set during epic dynastic conflict the…
Wieden+Kennedy begins Heineken Dropped campaign filming in Alaska
Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam has launched its new Heineken Dropped digital campaign filming on location in Alaska. Amsterdam-based Wefilm dropped sun-loving Spanish waiter Rikar in the wintry US state with the challenge of embracing his inner traveller to find his way home.…
Lithuania launches 20% filming incentive
Lithuania has launched a new 20% location filming incentive in a bid to boost the country’s production industry. The programme will become available on 1 January 2014 and will run until the end of 2018. “This incentive is vitally important…
Connecticut filming incentive removes feature support to focus on TV
Connecticut in the north-east US has removed its filming incentive support for feature productions for the next two years. The state will instead focus its limited resources on television, which it considers more central to its production industry. “I don't…
Supervising Location Manager Bill Doyle scouts China’s Hengdian World Studios
Supervising Location Manager Bill Doyle recently scouted filming locations across China and visited the facilities at Hengdian World Studios in Zhejiang Province in the east. He talks to The Location Guide about what China has to offer. Doyle scouted China…
Montana launches Big Sky Film Grant as extra location filming incentive
Montana has launched an extra location filming incentive in the form of its Big Sky Film Grant. Qualifying productions can get up to 20% of their local expenditure back in cash within as little as 30 days after principal photography…