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Atlantic Pictures chooses Texas filming locations for Defiance alien invasion
Atlantic Pictures chose dusty filming locations in Texas to shoot the live-action trailer for videogame Defiance. Delivering Mad Max-style visuals, the spot shows a team of drifters fleeing a brawl in a remote bar before facing off against an alien…
New York filming productions to be allowed assault weapons despite state ban
Productions filming on location in New York will most likely still be allowed to have assault weapons on set for filming purposes, despite the guns recently being banned. Governor Andrew M Cuomo has sought to clarify the law surrounding prop…
Filming on location with Llucià Homs of the Barcelona-Catalunya Film Commission
Llucià Homs is Film Commissioner and Director at the Barcelona-Catalunya Film Commission (BCFC) in north-east Spain. He is also Director of Cultural Industries at Barcelona City Council’s Cultural Institute. The film commission helps organise shoots around Barcelona and Catalunya. What…
Senator calls for location filming tax credit increase for upstate New York
New York State Senator Patrick Gallivan has called for location filming tax credits to be increased for western parts of the state. Filming costs climb as productions travel further from New York City and Senator Gallivan wants to tackle this…
New York filming incentive plan could boost dominance over California
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to extend state filming incentives through to 2019. The programme costs USD420 million a year but makes the state more competitive than California and has firmed New York’s position as one of America’s production…
Boosted Los Angeles commercial location filming fuels overall growth
Commercial location filming in Los Angeles in 2012 grew by 14%, growth that was fuelled partly by an increase in material filmed for the internet. This led to an overall location filming rise of nearly 5% for the city, although…
Derek Jacobi likely to return to northern England for Last Tango in Halifax
Renowned actor Derek Jacobi is likely to return to filming locations in West Yorkshire in northern England for a second series of TV drama Last Tango in Halifax. The show tells the story of childhood sweethearts reunited after 60 years…
Matt Damon’s Promised Land follows filming incentives to Pennsylvania
Matt Damon’s new feature, environmental drama Promised Land, based itself in Western Pennsylvania when the filming incentives and logistics appealed to the production team. The film focuses on a natural gas executive trying to get drilling rights in a Pennsylvania…
Fiscal cliff deal extends America’s federal location filming tax break
America’s federal filming tax break is among the programmes to be extended by the fiscal cliff deal approved by Congress earlier this week. Politicians avoided the real danger of recession as a series of tax cuts was set to expire…
Riverside County in California considers filming incentives to attract production
Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, is to consider new location filming incentives to encourage productions to remain in the state. Authorities would like to see location fees removed and a streamlined process for considering filming requests. Tom Freeman is…