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China plans $163m in annual filming grants for movies shooting at Qingdao studio
China is planning to launch an annual film grant programme worth about USD 163 million for movies that shoot at the Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis. Plans for the USD 8.2 billion studio on China’s east coast were announced by the…
Filming for Batman TV prequel Gotham recreates grittier New York City
New York has been re-imagined as the grittier metropolis of the late 1970s and early 1980s for the Batman TV drama prequel Gotham. The show has filmed on location in the city but makes efforts to drain modern New York…
MPC films on location in Chile's Atacama Desert for trading platform IG
MPC filmed on location in Chile’s Atacama Desert for the online trading platform IG. The campaign builds a visual metaphor around a trader’s experience as he soaks up Chile’s incredible volcanic landscape. Chile was chosen for its visual beauty and…
X-Men Apocalypse to keep superhero franchise in Canada by filming Montreal
Upcoming superhero sequel X-Men: Apocalypse will film on location in Montreal, Canada, the same place chosen by its massively successful predecessor X-Men: Days of Future Past. It’s likely to film at the same studio facility, Mel’s Cite du Cinema. The…
Louisiana confident of location filming appeal ahead of California incentive boost
Louisiana remains confident that it will still have the edge when California boosts its filming incentives next year. The southern state has a 30% uncapped filming incentive and has recently doubled for California for features including Dawn of the Planet…
Central European territories prepare to launch RE-ACT film initiative
Three European film funds are preparing a new collaborative film initiative. The RE-ACT (Regional Audiovisual Co-operation and Training) programme has been set up by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund in Italy and the Slovenian Film…
California to launch boosted $330m filming incentive from next year
California will launch a reformed filming incentive programme with an annual fund of USD 330 million that will come into effect for the 2016 fiscal year. The fund will still be less than in New York, but the hope is…
Filming for World War I drama ANZAC Girls doubles South Australia for Gallipoli
Upcoming TV miniseries ANZAC Girls has filmed entirely on location in and around Adelaide in South Australia for a story set during the Gallipoli campaign of World War I. The drama focuses on the New Zealand and Australian nurses who…
Spark44 and Black Label Productions film David Beckham Jaguar campaign for China
Agency Spark44 and production company Black Label Productions has filmed a new Jaguar campaign for China with David Beckham. Filming took place in central London and at Goodwood Motor Circuit in southern England, and on Mallorca. Conceptualised and managed by…
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…