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New Zealand Prime Minister’s Office sheds light on Hobbit production spending
Details of production spending from location filming on Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films have been revealed by the Office of Prime Minister John Key in New Zealand. The figures were released when politicians questioned how many jobs the films created. Officially,…
Maxfilms shoots for Bank of Ireland on location in Donegal lighthouse
Dublin-based Maxfilms has shot a new spot for Bank of Ireland on location in a remote lighthouse in County Donegal. The commercial shows an operator changing the lighthouse bulb on a stormy night as a visual metaphor for the bank’s…
Hampshire attracts Les Miserables and World War Z for productive 2012
Hampshire in southern England attracted major features including Les Miserables and Brad Pitt’s World War Z through the course of 2012. Total production spending came to around GBP3 million for the year. Councillor Ray Ellis is with Hampshire County Council,…
Downton Abbey likely to return for location filming in Bampton in Oxfordshire
Hit period drama series Downton Abbey is likely to return to Bampton in the UK for its new season this year. The historic Oxfordshire market town has featured as Downton village in previous seasons of the show. Geron Swann is…
Riverside County in California considers filming incentives to attract production
Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, is to consider new location filming incentives to encourage productions to remain in the state. Authorities would like to see location fees removed and a streamlined process for considering filming requests. Tom Freeman is…
BBC TV series films on location near Queenstown in New Zealand
A new BBC TV drama scheduled to screen at Sundance in January 2013 and then in the UK in March, was filmed on location near Queenstown in New Zealand. Top of the Lake is a seven-part series that follows a…
Northumberland in England holds forum to promote local filming locations
Northumberland in north-east England has held a forum to promote its filming locations. Northern Film and Media organised the event that offered a networking opportunity and discussions on how to boost the region’s production industry. Visiting productions spend around GBP7…
Peter Jackson urges New Zealand to be flexible with location filming incentives
Filmmaker Peter Jackson has urged the New Zealand Government to be flexible with location filming incentives in the coming years. He stressed that the hobbit trilogy came very close to being filmed in the UK partly because of a high-profile…
New report suggests New York is the big filming incentive jobs winner
A new report suggests New York is the big winner in the US as a result of the filming incentive changes in recent years. Los Angeles has lost more than 16,000 film industry jobs and its national job-share has fallen…
Hangover 3 works with city agencies to film on Orange County freeway
The Hangover Part III worked with a host of municipal agencies to arrange a two-day shoot on a freeway in California’s Orange County. Filming took place on the California 73 between Newport Beach and Costa Mesa just south of Los…