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Wildcard Films shoots supernatural mystery on location near Guildford
Wildcard Films has chosen the distinctive Norney Grange near Guildford in Surrey to film low-budget supernatural mystery Blackwood. TLG visits the set to find out more about the location and see what appealed to the production. Norney Grange is a…
BBC TV series films on location near Queenstown in New Zealand
A new BBC TV drama scheduled to screen at Sundance in January 2013 and then in the UK in March, was filmed on location near Queenstown in New Zealand. Top of the Lake is a seven-part series that follows a…
Australia under pressure to raise location offset for David Fincher and Brad Pitt
Australia is under pressure to increase its location offset for filmmaker David Fincher and star Brad Pitt. The pair are set to work together again on Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, but the studio wants a more generous location…
Northumberland in England holds forum to promote local filming locations
Northumberland in north-east England has held a forum to promote its filming locations. Northern Film and Media organised the event that offered a networking opportunity and discussions on how to boost the region’s production industry. Visiting productions spend around GBP7…
Pennsylvania calls for boost to state location filming incentive
Pennsylvania is calling for an increase to the film fund for its location filming incentive. At the moment the state programme has USD60 million allocated annually for a 25% tax credit, but officials say this needs to rise to at…
Peter Jackson urges New Zealand to be flexible with location filming incentives
Filmmaker Peter Jackson has urged the New Zealand Government to be flexible with location filming incentives in the coming years. He stressed that the hobbit trilogy came very close to being filmed in the UK partly because of a high-profile…
Australia loses new Wachowski feature to sweeter UK filming incentive
Australia has lost out on the Wachowski siblings' new feature partly due to its less competitive filming incentives. Andy and Lana Wachowski, responsible for the Matrix trilogy and Cloud Atlas, will be filming their new sci-fi film Jupiter Ascending in…
Location Advisor – Exploring Film Friendly Hotels in Morocco
About 25 years ago as a young production person, I was given the enviable task of trying out hotel rooms in Juan les Pins, south of France. Our main location was a palatial villa on the Cap d’Antibes and we…
Film Commissioner Einar Hansen Tomasson discusses Iceland shooting
An Iceland native, Einar has been the Icelandic Film Commissioner since 2004. The Film in Iceland project was started in 2002 when Iceland decided to launch its filming incentive programme to help stimulate its vibrant film industry. What can you…
The Mill’s Three Little Pigs wins Grand Prix at Ciclope Festival
The Mill’s Three Little Pigs commercial campaign for British newspaper The Guardian won the Grand Prix competition at the Ciclope International Advertising Craft Festival last week. Ciclope specifically recognises the craft of commercial production and this year TLG was an…