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Kevin Spacey meets with Maryland lawmakers in bid to extend filming incentives
Actor and producer Kevin Spacey has met with lawmakers in Maryland in a bid to extend the state’s filming incentive programme. Spacey stars in the Netflix political drama House of Cards, which is asking for greater financial support to film…
Crime drama NCIS films special episodes on location in New Orleans
Popular TV crime drama NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) has filmed scenes for a planned New Orleans spinoff on location in Louisiana. Should the episodes prove a success, producers will likely double Los Angeles for New Orleans in the new…
Cable channel Syfy to film TV event series Ascension on location in Montreal
Cable channel Syfy will film TV miniseries Ascension in Montreal, Canada. The series will follow a murder investigation on a vast interstellar space mission launched at the height of the Cold War. X-Men: Days of Future Past has been among…
Disney Channel to film major four-part TV movie Evermoor on location in UK
The Disney Channel is to film a new four-part TV movie on location in the UK. Mystery drama Evermoor will shoot at Arley Hall & Gardens in Cheshire in northern England and will mark Disney Channel’s first live-action movie to…
Warner Bros Television films Constantine comic book pilot on location in Atlanta
Warner Bros Television is filming the pilot for a Constantine TV series in Atlanta, Georgia. The pilot is based on the DC Comics character John Constantine, an occult conman-turned-detective who in the comics originates from Liverpool, England. Constantine was made…
AICP President and CEO Matt Miller on the US commercial filming industry
Matt Miller spent five years with the Association of National Advertisers before joining the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP). He set to work developing the day-to-day structure and this April will mark his twentieth year with the organisation as…
Channel 4 to expand location filming work outside England under new licence
British broadcaster Channel 4 will produce more content on location in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from 2020, under the terms of its new licensing agreement from regulator Ofcom. “Ofcom has decided that Channel 4’s quota for programmes produced outside…
Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Glazer film alien drama Under the Skin in Scotland
Scarlett Johansson and filmmaker Jonathan Glazer shot on location in Scotland for new alien drama Under the Skin. Based on a novel by Michel Faber, the broad story follows Johansson’s sinister extraterrestrial as she assumes human form and preys on…
Third series of Mr Selfridge to film in London and Chatham Historic Dockyard
A third series of period drama Mr Selfridge has been commissioned by British broadcaster ITV and will return to filming locations in north London and the Historic Chatham Dockyard in Kent. The series stars US actor Jeremy Piven as the…
New York takes top filming spot over Los Angeles for TV pilot season
New York has taken the top spot as the number one filming location for the new TV pilot season in North America. No fewer than ten dramas and five comedies are filming in New York, compared to just five in…