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Delaware to open new film and TV commission
Delaware in the eastern US is to set up a Motion Picture and Television Development Commission. A small number of features have shot locally over the years, including the 1989 coming-of-age drama Dead Poets Society, starring the late Robin Williams.…
Crime drama Banshee chooses Pennsylvania base for new season filming
American crime drama Banshee is counting the benefits of filming in Pennsylvania, with its first single-town base. The series previously shot in North Carolina where several different locations had to be used to create the show’s Pennsylvania setting. Banshee relocated…
Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq confirmed as first Amazon Original Movie
Spike Lee’s new film Chi-Raq will be the first Amazon Original Movie. Shot in Chicago, the film explores the black-on-black violence endemic in parts of the city. Chicago is a popular filming location and currently hosts Chicago Fire and Chicago…
Archer’s Mark films underwater Mexican cave for Ballantine’s Scotch whisky
Archer’s Mark filmed on location in an underwater cave in Mexico for an ambitious photo shoot promoting Ballantine’s Scotch whisky. Working with photographer Benjamin Von Wong, the team staged the shoot above a toxic sulphur river. The campaign - Ballantine's…
New film studio to open in Korean city Busan
A new film studio will open in the Korean city of Busan in 2019. Korean capital Seoul got a big profile boost hosting an action sequence for Avengers: Age of Ultron but the new facility in the south of the…
Jordan targets stronger filming incentives as Ridley Scott’s The Martian approaches
Authorities in Jordan are working towards offering stronger filming incentives to help the country compete with its international rivals. Ridley Scott’s upcoming sci-fi movie The Martian used Jordan as a stand-in for Mars and features Matt Damon as a stranded…
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.…
Political satire Veep awarded filming incentive support for California shoot
Award-winning political satire Veep is one of several top-rated TV shows awarded incentive support to relocate its new season to California. The series has spent four years doubling Baltimore for Washington, DC, using Maryland’s 27% TV filming incentive. California has…
Homeland starts filming in Germany with funding support from Medienboard
Terrorism drama Homeland has started filming its fifth season on location in Germany. Producers are using Studio Babelsberg near Berlin as a base and is getting a million euros in support from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. “We are all addicted fans and…
Period drama Indian Summers returns to film second series in Malaysia
British TV drama Indian Summers is filming a second series and will again double the Penang region of Malaysia for Simla in northern India. The new season is set in 1935 and follows a story of social drama and adultery…