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South Africa organises 10-day location filming scout for US studio bosses
South Africa has begun a ten-day location filming scout for executives from several of the top US studios. Filming locations and production infrastructure will be showcased as South Africa aims to attract more shoots on the scale of Black Sails.…
Markenfilm Crossing films Death Valley road trip with Hollywood stars for Mercedes
Markenfilm Crossing GmbH recruited star couple Joshua Jackson and Diane Kruger for a road trip through the heat of Death Valley in eastern California. Confiscating their bottled water, the pair was challenged to rely on the drinkable water vapour emissions…
Moonlighting films footballer Didier Drogba in Turkey and Kenya for Windhoek Lager
Moonlighting doubled filming locations in Turkey for Africa in a new spot for Windhoek Lager that also involved shooting in Kenya and South Africa. The Journey shows football star Didier Drogba being inspired to dribble a ball across African landscapes…
Gotham City on-screen: Location filming options for James Gordon TV drama
New Fox TV drama Gotham will explore the early career of James Gordon, the detective who eventually helps Batman with his fight against Gotham City’s super-villains. Filming locations for the series will need to offer tax incentives and film-friendly production…
House of Cards to return for third season filming on location in Maryland
Hit drama series House of Cards will return for a third season and will continue filming on location in Maryland. The high-end political drama doubles Baltimore for Washington, DC, and made history in 2013 for becoming the first series to…
Author of acclaimed novel The Luminaries chooses New Zealand for series filming
A miniseries based on Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries should film on location in New Zealand, the author has said. Eleanor Catton’s novel is set in 1866 during the Otago Gold Rush of southern New Zealand and she wants the…
Pirate drama series Black Sails films on location at Cape Town Film Studios
Pirate drama Black Sails filmed on location at Cape Town Film Studios in South Africa, doubling the region for the Bahamas. Set in 1720, the series is pitched as a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic pirate novel Treasure Island…
The Avengers sequel to film second-unit footage on location in South Africa
Marvel will shoot second-unit footage on location in Johannesburg in South Africa for its upcoming superhero sequel The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Filming will last two weeks for the movie that will bring together Marvel’s biggest superhero stars for a…
Russell Crowe drama Fathers and Daughters secures Pittsburgh filming incentive
Russell Crowe’s new feature, family drama Fathers and Daughters, has secured a filming incentive payment to shoot in Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. The film will jump between the 1980s and the present day to tell the story of a troubled author…
New TV tax credit helps boost UK’s international location filming for 2013
Shoots for international shows like Elementary accounted for most of the TV spending in the UK in 2013 as a result of the new TV tax credit, according to the British Film Institute. Just over GBP230 million was spent by…