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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…
Matthew McConaughey films The Sea of Trees in Massachusetts town of Worcester
Matthew McConaughey and filmmaker Gus Van Sant based their new movie The Sea of Trees in Worcester, Massachusetts, doubling the area for Japan. The state has recently hosted Robert Downey Jr’s drama The Judge and Denzel Washington’s vigilante movie The…
Cape Town Film Studios considers expansion as international demand rises
Cape Town Film Studios head Niko Dekker has announced a need for an expansion of the South Africa facility in response to surging international demand. The studio is home to pirate drama series Black Sails and has also hosted Northmen:…
Disney retrofits Massachusetts warehouse to film rescue drama The Finest Hours
Disney will film in a retrofitted warehouse space near Boston, Massachusetts, for its true-life rescue drama The Finest Hours. Set in 1952, the film will recount the tale of a dramatic Coast Guard rescue operation that was launched when oil…
North Carolina scales down filming incentive to grant programme in major change
North Carolina has downgraded its filming incentive from a tax credit to an annual grant in a development that will make it less appealing to shoots like Under the Dome and Sleepy Hollow. The move comes after months of production…
BBC America uses British Columbia filming incentives for TV drama Intruders
New BBC America TV drama Intruders shot on location in Vancouver, British Columbia, using the province’s filming incentives to double the city for Seattle. The series follows a secretive society that seeks refuge in the bodies of others as a…
Meg Ryan creates California valley town in Virginia with Tom Hanks filming Ithaca
Meg Ryan is doubling Virginia for California’s San Joaquin Valley filming for her family drama Ithaca. Ryan is directing and also starring with Tom Hanks. The feature is the latest high-profile production to come to Virginia following the Revolutionary War…
Historical drama Clavius to film in Malta with Joseph Fiennes and Tom Felton
Historical drama Clavius will film partly on location in Malta with British actors Joseph Fiennes and Tom Felton. Set in the early 1st Century AD, the story follows an agnostic Roman Centurion who sets out to locate the body of…
Film fixer Eric Brown: California very viable location for commercial producers
California is still a popular filming location for commercial shoots, despite steadily losing out on feature and TV drama production. Eric Brown runs Fixer Films and explains that commercials have not been as affected by California’s limited filming incentive as…
American Civil War TV pilot Point of Honor to film on location in Virginia
Television drama pilot Point of Honor will film on location in Virginia in the eastern US. Telling a story of family drama in the 1860s during the American Civil War, the production is the second period piece to come to…