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Production Guild Awards announce individual filming prize recipients
The Production Guild of Great Britain has announced a series of awards to be given to British production professionals at a Hertfordshire ceremony this weekend. Location Manager Sue Quinn will be recognised for her work on Tom Cruise’s acclaimed sci-fi…
Historical drama Clavius to film in Malta with Joseph Fiennes and Tom Felton
Historical drama Clavius will film partly on location in Malta with British actors Joseph Fiennes and Tom Felton. Set in the early 1st Century AD, the story follows an agnostic Roman Centurion who sets out to locate the body of…
BBC films political drama The Honourable Woman in London and Morocco
The BBC filmed on location in London and Morocco for new drama miniseries The Honourable Woman, doubling the African country for parts of the Middle East. Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as a woman drawn into political turbulence and intrigue as she…
Clint Eastwood recreates Afghanistan in California filming American Sniper movie
Clint Eastwood is recreating Afghanistan partly on location in California for his new movie American Sniper. Bradley Cooper stars in the true story of Chris Kyle, a US Navy SEAL sniper who accumulated 160 confirmed kills over a career that…
Malta increases filming rebate and incentivises productions with local settings
Malta has increased its filming rebate to 25% and will incentivise productions to film the country as itself. The Mediterranean island nation wants to attract more shoots like Captain Phillips, but producers may be eligible for an additional 2% rebate…
Star J Entertainment in South Korea to film adaptation of original Homeland
Star J Entertainment in South Korea will film an adaptation of Israeli TV drama series Prisoners of War, which was remade in the US as Homeland. The new show will mark the original programme’s fourth adaptation and will focus on…
Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher films on location in Pittsburgh
Tom Cruise’s new film Jack Reacher shot on location across Pittsburgh, attracted mainly by Pennsylvania’s filming tax credit. The movie tells the story of a maverick detective uncovering a criminal conspiracy against the backdrop of a series of sniper murders.…
On location in Tunisia with local Line Producer Philippa Day
Philippa worked briefly as an Assistant Casting Director on a Tunisian film and then returned to settle in the country after a few years working in the UK as a Runner and PA. She worked on two of the Star…
Battleship USS Iowa to be available as period filming location in Los Angeles
Historic battleship the USS Iowa is to be a potential filming location in its new home in the Port of Los Angeles. The World War II ship is rich in history, having carried President Franklyn Roosevelt across the Atlantic in…
Filming in Hawaii with Location Manager Kent Matsuoka
Kent attended the California Institute of the Arts for Fine Art Photography and was first introduced to locations by shooting houses and working as a site rep for a location agency in Los Angeles as a summer job. He was…