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Location Managers Guild of America announces nominations for 2015 awards
The Location Managers Guild of America has announced the nominations for its second annual awards show. Location professionals will spend the next few weeks voting and the winners will be announced at a ceremony in Beverly Hills on 7 March.…
New Mexico lawmaker to propose filming incentive change to boost TV
A New Mexico lawmaker is to propose a change to the state’s filming incentive that could boost TV production. Rep. Brian Egolf wants to remove TV shows from the spending cap on New Mexico’s incentive programme, which could attract more…
Scotland faces stiff competition to host filming for Highlands-set novel Seeker
Scotland will face stiff competition to host sci-fi story Seeker, which is set partly in the Scottish Highlands. The Young Adult novel will be published next month and Sony Pictures has already bought the movie rights as it eyes a…
Sean Bean to start filming The Frankenstein Chronicles in Northern Ireland
Former Game of Thrones star Sean Bean will start filming new ITV drama series The Frankenstein Chronicles next week. Northern Ireland will stand in for Regency London of the 1820s. “The Frankenstein Chronicles is an epic re-working of one of…
Scotland faces renewed pressure to build studio and streamline film support
The Scottish government is facing renewed pressure to develop a film studio and to streamline production support. Holyrood has heard that a lack of both filming infrastructure and unified Scottish support resulted in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones…
Filming on the Ministry of Defence Estate
For some it may come as a surprise to hear that the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) has been providing film locations for many years. It’s well placed to do so as the MOD is one of the country’s largest…
Michael Mann films cybercrime drama Blackhat in Far East and Los Angeles
Filmmaker Michael Mann shot his cybercrime movie Blackhat in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Los Angeles. Chris Hemsworth stars as a computer expert recruited to hunt an international gang of cyber criminals. “Michael Mann wanted to have a sense that…
BBC launches period drama Wolf Hall with Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis
Wolf Hall was filmed for the BBC mainly in western England using The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol as a base. Adapted from Hilary Mantel's novel, Mark Rylance stars as Thomas Cromwell, who became a key player in the court…
BBC Films bases war memoir Testament Of Youth on location in Yorkshire
A feature adaptation of famous First World War memoir Testament Of Youth based its location filming in Yorkshire, northern England, but also shot in Oxford and London. The film tells the story of Vera Brittain’s experiences as an Oxford student…
British Council in new deal to help boost location filming in Jordan
The British Council has signed an agreement with the Royal Film Commission Jordan to help boost the Middle Eastern country’s production industry. Jordan has recently hosted Zero Dark Thirty, Monsters: Dark Continent and Jon Stewart’s Rosewater. Under the terms of…