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Pinewood Studios reports £10m revenue boost as expansion work begins
Pinewood Studios has reported a GBP 10 million revenue boost for the year ending 31 March 2015. The facility made GBP 75 million, compared to just over GBP 64 million the previous year. Operating profit increased by more than a…
Lawmaker pledges to ‘save’ Louisiana film industry if elected Governor
A senior Louisiana lawmaker has pledged to “save” the state’s film industry if he is elected Governor. Louisiana has attracted major shoots in recent years like Jurassic World and Mark Wahlberg’s Deepwater Horizon, but is now set to introduce an…
New series of BBC contemporary war drama Our Girl to be set in Kenya
A second season of the BBC’s modern war drama Our Girl will be set in Kenya. The series follows a female soldier in the British Army and is relocating the story to Kenya after the first season used South Africa…
Woody Harrelson to film presidential biopic LBJ in Texas and Louisiana
Woody Harrelson will play Lyndon B Johnson in a new film about the 36th President of the United States that will shoot on location in Texas, Louisiana and Washington, DC. Production for LBJ will follow historical drama The Free State…
Cannes Lions Beach Lounge Partner 2015: The Magic
Lithuanian production house The Magic has joined The Location Guide as a partner for our Location Beach Lounge at this year’s Cannes Lions Festival. The company was set up in 2011 and specialises in commercials and general production services. "Cannes…
Michael Fassbender films New Zealand as period Colorado for Slow West
Filmmaker John Maclean and Michael Fassbender shot New Zealand’s South Island as 19th century Colorado for their new movie Slow West. The film tells the story of a young Scot who enlists the help of an outlaw as a guide…
True-life Victorian drama Dark Angel to film in North Yorkshire
Victorian serial-killer drama Dark Angel will be filmed in North Yorkshire and County Durham in northern England from this August. Yorkshire has hosted several recent period dramas, including Northern Ireland drama ’71 and First World War memoir Testament Of Youth.…
British wartime drama Home Fires to film new series in northern England
Wartime TV drama Home Fires will film a second series on location in Cheshire, northern England. Set during the Second World War, the drama follows a group of women keeping up morale and their community spirit in an English village.…
HBO to film Game of Thrones partly on location in Spanish city Girona
Filming for the sixth season of Game of Thrones will take place partly on location in the city of Girona in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain. The series filmed in Spain for the first time last year and helped boost film tourism…
Spike Lee starts filming crime feature Chiraq on location in Chicago
Filmmaker Spike Lee has started filming his new movie, crime feature Chiraq, in Chicago. The city is a popular filming location and, particularly for television. Cinespace Chicago Film Studios has recently expanded and hosts several hit dramas, including the breakout…