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Filming on location with Alessandra Bergero of the Italian Riviera Film Commission
Alessandra Bergero and her brother Raffaele set up the Italian Riviera Film Commission in 1998. The commission is based in north-west Italy near the French Cote d'Azur and promotes the region as a production hub. What does the Italian Riviera…
Oman invites Bollywood filmmakers on location scouting trip
Oman, on the south-east coast of the Arabian Peninsula, has invited a group of Bollywood filmmakers on a location scouting trip. Filmmaker Ashwini Chaudhary, director Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan and film producer Anjum Rizvi have been enjoying their first visits…
Sonny London races football fan from Brazil to Wembley for Heineken
Sonny London filmed on location in Brazil for new Heineken spot The Final. Finding himself with a ticket to the Champions League final at Wembley, a football fan makes an adventurous trip from remote Brazil to London to catch the…
Maryland extends location filming incentive to keep House of Cards and Veep
Maryland has extended its location filming incentive in a move that should keep high-end TV shows House of Cards and Veep in the state. In addition the film fund has been boosted from USD7.5 million to USD25 million, although this…
Warner Brothers renovates Engel Stadium in Tennessee for historic baseball drama
Warner Brothers arranged renovations to Engel Stadium in Tennessee for its baseball drama 42. The film tells the story of Jackie Robinson, the first black player of the modern era to play Major League Baseball – with jersey number 42…
Somesuch & Co films costumed character charge on New Zealand beach for Samsung
Somesuch & Co filmed a charge of costumed characters on location in New Zealand in a new spot for Samsung’s Smart TV. Fantasy horsemen, Roman soldiers, dragsters, chariots, a T-Rex and an airborne police unit race down a remote beach…
British Columbia politician pledges election victory will bring filming incentive rise
A candidate for the premiership of British Columbia has pledged to increase location filming incentives if he wins the upcoming election. Adrian Dix heads the New Democratic Party in the western Canadian province and said he will increase the filming…
Los Angeles film and television location filming surges in Q1 of 2013
A surge in film and TV location filming in Los Angeles led to a production increase in the city of nearly 18% for the first quarter of 2013. Feature production rose by 25% compared to the same period in 2012…
Tom Cruise films scorched-Earth sci-fi feature Oblivion on location in Iceland
Tom Cruise headed to Iceland to shoot scenes set in the war-scarred future of his new movie Oblivion. The film follows Cruise’s former Marine commander Jack Harper as he questions his mission on a future Earth ravaged by alien conflict.…
Marvel’s Captain America sequel starts filming on location in California and Ohio
Marvel’s superhero sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier has started filming on location in Los Angeles, with shooting also planned for Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, DC. Avengers Assemble filmed action sequences on location in Cleveland in 2011, doubling the city…