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Meeting this week could decide fate of New Jersey filming incentive
A meeting is scheduled for Wednesday this week in New Jersey that could lead to the state’s Film and Digital Media Tax Credit Program being halted for the next fiscal year. The scheme was launched in 2007 as a 25%…
Filming incentives in New South Wales get AUSD25 million funding boost
The government in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, is to announce a AUSD25 million funding boost for existing filming incentives to encourage more production in the state. Most of the money will be used to increase state incentives and attract…
Prague snowstorm convinces Comcast to film ad in NZ
American cable service provider Comcast has filmed its latest commercial in New Zealand after a severe snowstorm struck Prague, where it originally intended to shoot. Field shows an army of Comcast employees carrying high-definition TVs on a grassy field. They…
Filming on location in Cuba
The isolationist political regime of the last 50 years has made Cuba, the largest island of the Antilles, a timewarp of retro styling. As advertisers and filmmakers are finding, it’s also a cheap and efficient place to get your picture…
New Italian film doubles Tunisia for biblical Palestine
A new Italian-language film about the life of Mary Magdalene has doubled Tunisia for Palestine. Io Sono Con Te (The English title will be Let It Be) considered filming in Morocco but eventually settled on Tunisia. This was due to…
VW chooses India for Polo photo shoot
Major vehicle manufacturer VW has filmed on location in India for a photo shoot advertising its Polo car. The campaign will run alongside its television commercials that doubled South Africa for India. The photo shoot production shot in several locations…
There's something about Marseille
Visit its buzzing streets or its city beaches and you'll soon see Marseille is an extraordinary place that has its own soul unlike any other. The capital of Provence Alpes Cote D'Azur, it was founded around 600BC by Phoenician sailors…
Mayflower shoots with 20-foot marionette on location in LA
American house-moving firm Mayflower has shot its latest commercial on location in Los Angeles using a 20-foot-tall marionette called Audrey. Big Move shows Audrey walking slowly across an American landscape, openly operated by a team of puppeteers. She is followed…
Why Lori Loves California
Lori Balton’s address book is a who’s who of Hollywood production designers, producers, and directors. Amongst others she has location scouted for Spielberg, Scorsese, Bay, Redford, Mann, Darabont, Pakula and Tony Scott, on films including Charlie Wilson’s War, Memoirs of…
Dulux films new ad in Jodhpur, India
Major home decorating brand Dulux has filmed a new commercial in the city of Jodhpur in the Rajasthan region of north-west India. The shoot was part of the company’s Let’s Colour project, which has also involved travelling to Rio de…