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12 Years a Slave recreates antebellum south filming in Louisiana
Director Steve McQueen filmed in the Louisiana city of New Orleans for his award-winning drama 12 Years a Slave. The film tells the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York in the 1840s, who…
Los Angeles film czar to prepare California filming plan before May 2014
Los Angeles’ new ‘film czar’ has said that a plan to boost filming in California will be prepared before May this year. Tom Sherak is a former movie studio boss and has been appointed by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti…
Modern Family TV comedy to film holiday episode on location in Australia
Hit Los Angeles-based comedy show Modern Family is to film a holiday episode on location in Australia. Twentieth Century Fox Television has made an agreement with airline Qantas to fly the cast out for two weeks of location filming that…
World War II drama The Book Thief films on location in Germany
New World War II feature The Book Thief filmed on location at Studio Babelsberg near Berlin. Based on a novel by Markus Zusak, the film tells the story of a young girl who steals books to find solace from the…
ABC Studios to film fairy tale TV pilot Galavant on location in UK
American network ABC Studios will film the pilot for its new musical fairy tale TV show Galavant on location in the UK. In doing so, it will be the first US-produced pilot to be shot in the UK since the…
Success of new BBC Sherlock series could boost London film tourism
The continuing success of the BBC’s modern-day detective series Sherlock could help boost film tourism in London. Nearly ten million UK viewers watched the opening third-series episode broadcast on 1 January 2014 and the series starts in the US later…
The Dead Lands filming in New Zealand as NZ-UK co-production
New feature The Dead Lands is filming on location in and around Auckland, New Zealand, as a New Zealand-UK co-production. Described as a “Maori action epic”, the film will chart a revenge story and will showcase the Maori martial art…
Revolutionary War TV series doubles Virginia locations for New York
New TV drama Turn is set during the American Revolutionary War of the mid-18th Century and is doubling locations in Virginia for colonial-era New York. This tumultuous period of American history is drawing Hollywood’s eye, with Last of the Mohicans…
New Zealand film tourism uses The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
An extensive film tourism campaign is promoting the New Zealand filming locations used in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. The movie is the second in Peter Jackson’s epic fantasy trilogy following hobbit Bilbo Baggins and a band of dwarves…
Narnia director joins call for better New Zealand filming incentives
New Zealand filmmaker Andrew Adamson has joined the call for more generous filming incentives in the country. The filmmaker directed both of Disney’s big-budget Narnia films and has also steered the Shrek movies. Production professionals in New Zealand are calling…