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Ohio calls for stronger filming tax credits after summer of The Avengers
Filming professionals in Ohio are calling for stronger state filming tax credits. The Avengers is one of the state’s highest-profile recent visitors, but Ohio's annual film fund is capped at just USD10 million and this figure has already been reached…
Sherlock Holmes sequel films in London music hall and recreates period Europe
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows filmed mainly in the UK, including scenes at Wilton’s Music Hall, which is the world’s oldest surviving music hall. Aside from brief visits to Switzerland and France, London doubled for some of the Parisian…
Merry Christmas from The Location Guide!
It’s been a busy year for us here at The Location Guide and we’d like to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year as 2011 reaches its twilight days. We’ve had a full-on 12 months…
Editor’s Weekly
Ahmad Tea has recreated turn-of-the-20th Century England in Portugal, revealing a potential alternative for commercial filmmakers seeking more bang for their buck. We also took an in-depth look at a pretty stunning new commercial from Jeep that filmed on location…
Tom Cruise dices with death filming in Dubai for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Tom Cruise has pulled out all the stops for the latest in the Mission: Impossible franchise. The film hinges on a stunt sequence where the star scales Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which at nearly 830 metres is the tallest building in…
Filming in Bolivia with the Benavides family
The Benavides are a unique ice-climbing, Harley-loving father-and-two-sons production team. Yecid Senior studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Miami but has made a career as a musician and producer. Yecid Junior is also a musician as well a director,…
Bollywood glamour comes to Sweden for location filming
Bollywood has turned to Sweden in a bid to give its audiences something new. Romantic horror sequel 1920: Evil Returns filmed partly in Skåne in the south of the country for two weeks in November. It marks a change from…
Rattling Stick sorts out representation in Brazil through Dinamo Films
UK-based production company Rattling Stick has ended an eventful year by sorting representation in Brazil through Dinamo Films. Rattling Stick has opened a US office this year, as well as launching Rattling Stuff, which develops advertising projects beyond conventional cinema…
Filming in Wales with Penny Skuse
Penny got to know South Wales while studying at Newport Film School. After stumbling around in film and television for a few years as a freelancer she eventually became aware of film commissions and their work. "I got my foot…
UK-Israeli location filming treaty wins support of King’s Speech producer
A new location filming treaty between the UK and Israel is being supported by a producer of The King’s Speech. Gareth Unwin has spoken of how the new treaty could boost filmmaking in both countries. The treaty will allow productions…