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Spielberg oversees Need for Speed as it wins Michigan filming incentive
Videogame adaptation Need for Speed – overseen by Steven Spielberg through DreamWorks - will get a filming incentive payment from Michigan to shoot scenes on location in Detroit. The production will spend just under USD5 million locally and get a…
Universal Studios filming facilities win final approval for major expansion
Major expansion of the filming facilities at Universal Studios in Los Angeles could start soon as final approval has been granted by the city council. The NBCUniversal Evolution Plan is a USD1.6 billion proposal that includes building new sound stages…
Les Miserables recreates 19th Century France on location in southern England
Tom Hooper’s grandiose Oscar-nominated production of Les Miserables filmed across southern England, using Pinewood Studios as a base. Key locations including Greenwich in London, Chatham in Kent and Winchester College in Hampshire were turned into France of the early 19th…
Location Manager Michael John Meehan: Making water work on film
Michael John Meehan got his break as Location Manager on Peter Weir's Witness in 1985. Over the years his areas of expertise have become more specialised. He talks to TLG about the challenges of working with water in film production.…
Location Manager Janice Polley: Filming with Michael Mann and Tony Scott
Janice Polley got her industry break working as a producer’s assistant on classic boxing sequel Rocky IV in the early 80s. She talks to TLG about shooting Los Angeles with Michael Mann and action filming with the late Tony Scott.…
Maxfilms shoots for Bank of Ireland on location in Donegal lighthouse
Dublin-based Maxfilms has shot a new spot for Bank of Ireland on location in a remote lighthouse in County Donegal. The commercial shows an operator changing the lighthouse bulb on a stormy night as a visual metaphor for the bank’s…
Hampshire attracts Les Miserables and World War Z for productive 2012
Hampshire in southern England attracted major features including Les Miserables and Brad Pitt’s World War Z through the course of 2012. Total production spending came to around GBP3 million for the year. Councillor Ray Ellis is with Hampshire County Council,…
Filming with Alain Claude Randresy of the Réunion Film Commission
Alain began his career working in advertising in Canada before moving to Paris in 2009 to study film production. He is now Project Executive at Agence Film Réunion (Réunion Island Film Commission and Office) on Réunion, a French territory in…
HASP Training prepares Passion Pictures for remote filming in Ecuador
HASP Training specialises in hostile environment advice and recently gave Passion Pictures medical training to prepare for documentary filming in remote parts of Ecuador. Based in Bournemouth in the UK, the HASP team is drawn from the UK Armed Forces.…
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…