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The Lone Ranger builds Western sets filming on location in New Mexico
Disney’s big-budget feature production of The Lone Ranger built Western sets for extensive filming in New Mexico. Based on the classic 1950s TV series, the film features Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as Ranger John Reid. Among the…
Warp Films on location in Kent for gun spree TV miniseries Southcliffe
Warp Films shot on location in the market town of Faversham in Kent, south-east England, for TV drama Southcliffe. The miniseries follows a journalist who returns to his hometown in the aftermath of a deadly mass shooting to try and…
Chicago prepares for Transformers 4 and Jupiter Ascending location filming
Chicago is hosting a summer of location filming spearheaded by the latest Transformers movie and the Wachowski siblings’ new sci-fi feature Jupiter Ascending. The city will also be hosting six ongoing television series. “We’ve always known that Chicago has beautiful…
Oresund film tourism boosted by success of Wallander and The Killing
Brooding crime dramas have put the Oresund region of Sweden and Denmark on the production map and have boosted local film tourism. While Wallander has been remade by the BBC, the US remake of hit Oresund murder mystery The Bridge…
Pennsylvania fails to remove annual filming incentive cap
Pennsylvania has failed to remove the annual spending cap from its filming incentive programme for the next fiscal year. The state has a 25% filming tax credit but the annual film fund is worth only USD60 million and this figure…
Pinewood Studios annual report reiterates need for expansion
Pinewood Studios has reiterated the need for expansion in its annual report. The Pinewood Studios Development Framework plan was refused planning permission by local authorities a few weeks ago and a Public Inquiry has been scheduled for mid-November 2013. The…
Filming in Luxembourg with location scout Christian Pannrucker
Christian got his first taste of the film industry as an apprentice on a German TV channel in 2000. Additional TV and film experiences led him to study unit and location management at Cologne’s Koelner Filmhaus. He’s been a location…
China and South Korea agree filming co-production deal
China and South Korea have made a filming co-production deal meaning that features produced under the agreement will be released in each market as domestic projects. The move will help bypass international release restrictions in each country. “When the final…
JJ Abrams reveals California as his preferred Star Wars filming location
Filmmaker JJ Abrams has revealed he would have preferred to film the new Star Wars movie on location in California, rather than in the UK. Speaking at the Produced By Conference in Los Angeles, Abrams spoke of the inconvenience of…
Pennsylvania senator to push un-capped location filming incentive
A senator in Pennsylvania has pledged to introduce legislation to remove the annual cap on the US state’s location filming incentive programme. The move could help Pennsylvania attract more features on the scale of Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher and Christopher…