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Lionsgate starts filming sci-fi sequel Insurgent on location in Atlanta
Lionsgate has started filming its sci-fi sequel Insurgent on location in Atlanta. Set in a dystopian Chicago, the film will follow on from the events of Divergent, an adaptation of a popular Young Adult series of novels from author Veronica…
History Channel doubles West Virginia for global locations filming The World Wars
History Channel filmed in West Virginia for its new docudrama The World Wars, doubling the eastern-US state for global locations. Shooting focussed on West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle and recreated a host of countries including Germany, Mexico, Italy and France. Production…
Park Pictures builds Roman gladiator arena in New Zealand filming for Samsung
Park Pictures built a Roman gladiator arena near Auckland, New Zealand, for a new spot promoting Samsung’s curved Ultra High Definition TV. The ad features a father and son facing a gladiator charge in the Roman arena as the curved…
Cannes 2014: Netherlands launches new film commission and production incentive
The Netherlands has launched a new film commission and a 30% production incentive. Announced in Cannes, the Netherlands Film Commission will promote the country’s production industry internationally, while the filming incentive has a fund of EUR20 million. Movies and feature-length…
Nashville TV drama to stay in Tennessee with new filming incentive deal
Television drama Nashville is to stay in Tennessee and will film a third season on location in its namesake city. The show’s future in the state had been in doubt due to uncertainties about Tennessee’s filming incentive programme, but a…
New Godzilla movie builds San Francisco on location in Vancouver
Legendary Pictures built San Francisco on location in Vancouver for Gareth Edwards’ new adaptation of monster movie Godzilla. British Columbia also doubled for settings including Japan and the Philippines, while Hawaii stood in for the Marshall Islands in the western…
New series of ITV drama Broadchurch to film on location in Dorset
A second series of ITV’s murder drama Broadchurch will once again film on location in Dorset on the south coast of England. Broadchurch was a big hit and followed the impact of a child murder investigation in a small seaside…
BBC period drama Wolf Hall starts filming at Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol
Company Pictures has returned to The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol, western England, to film new six-part period drama Wolf Hall for the BBC. The production company previously based its period drama New Worlds at the studios. Wolf Hall is…
Hungry Man films medieval Mentos antics on location at historic French chateau
Hungry Man filmed on location at a 12th Century castle in southern France for a new commercial for Mentos mints. Never Surrender offers a dash of Monty Python humour as a knight riddled with arrows is kept alive and ‘fresh’…
New York reveals details of historic Spider-Man 2 location filming spend
A new report has revealed that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 spent USD44 million in local wages and nearly USD6 million on hotel nights while filming on location in New York. Overall, the production spent USD150 million locally and was the…