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Hobbit trilogy collects $120m in New Zealand filming incentives over four years
Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy has collected USD 120 million in filming incentive payments from the New Zealand government over the course of a four-year production process. Trilogy closer The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies will be released in…
Filming for Batman TV prequel Gotham recreates grittier New York City
New York has been re-imagined as the grittier metropolis of the late 1970s and early 1980s for the Batman TV drama prequel Gotham. The show has filmed on location in the city but makes efforts to drain modern New York…
Homeland producers praise South Africa filming locations as new season debuts
The producers of terrorism drama Homeland have praised their new South Africa filming locations as the show begins its fourth season. Homeland was based in North Carolina for three seasons but switched to South Africa shortly before the US state…
Disney collects £170m in tax credit payments from UK location filming
Disney has been paid tax credits of nearly GBP 170 million from location filming in the UK since the incentive was launched in 2007. Payments peaked last year at a little over GBP 50 million when Disney subsidiary Marvel filmed…
The Kettering Incident TV drama to film in Tasmania until December
Eight-part TV miniseries The Kettering Incident will film on location in the Australian state of Tasmania through to December. The drama will be Tasmania’s biggest ever production and the highest-profile local shoot since Willem Dafoe’s The Hunter in 2012. Location…
Quentin Tarantino secures filming incentive to bring The Hateful Eight to Colorado
Quentin Tarantino will be given a USD 5 million filming incentive to shoot his new movie, Western drama The Hateful Eight, on location in Colorado. The filmmaker reportedly chose the state over Wyoming, where he shot scenes for his slavery…
Filming for new TV drama Stanistan to double New Mexico for Middle East
New TV drama Stanistan will film on location in New Mexico and will use the south-western US state as a stand-in for the fictional Middle Eastern country. Mark Wahlberg previously doubled the mountains of New Mexico for Afghanistan in the…
Atomic Fiction becomes latest visual effects company to open Montreal office
Atomic Fiction has become the latest visual effects company to open an office in Montreal, Quebec. The company’s recent projects include the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, Transformers: Age of Extinction and Need for Speed. The firm will retain…
California signs new $330m filming incentive into law for 2015
California has signed into law a boosted filming incentive that will take effect from 2015. Formalising a deal agreed in August, the move increases the state’s annual film fund to USD 330 million for the next five years. Production support…
Los Angeles could face fight to keep Late Late Show with James Corden
California may have to fight to keep CBS chat programme The Late Late Show filming in Los Angeles when long-time host Craig Ferguson leaves later this year. British actor and performer James Corden has been named as Ferguson’s successor but…
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