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Homeland switches filming locations from North Carolina to South Africa
Terrorism drama Homeland will switch filming locations from North Carolina to Cape Town in South Africa for its fourth season. The award-winning series has been based in Charlotte from the beginning but producers have said they always planned to shoot…
Supervising Location Manager James Lin on Captain America 2 and California filming
Marvel made the unusual step of bringing big-budget film production to California for its comic-book sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Supervising Location Manager James Lin talks about the challenges of the shoot and California’s filmmaking future. Captain America: The…
Northern Ireland launches film tourism campaign with HBO and Game of Thrones
Northern Ireland is launching a new film tourism campaign that hinges on the spectacular international success of HBO’s Game of Thrones. The fourth series starts next week and the film tourism campaign will run in nine different countries through to…
Fargo miniseries braves freezing Alberta winter filming on location in Calgary
A new miniseries based on the Coen Brothers’ 1996 feature film Fargo braved the icy Canadian winter shooting on location in Calgary, Alberta. Although based in the same world as the Coens’ Oscar-winning crime drama, the miniseries tells a different…
Sci-fi feature Divergent builds dystopian Chicago on location in Illinois
New sci-fi feature Divergent sought dystopian visuals while filming on location in Chicago, as the production team recreated the setting of Veronica Roth’s source novel. The story is set in the aftermath of a future conflict that has left the…
Boomtown Productions: Location filming expertise in the UAE
Boomtown Productions was founded in 1999 and offers world-class regional filming expertise in the United Arab Emirates. Dubai and Abu Dhabi offer modern, cosmopolitan cities next to the desert and the beach with mountainous terrain less than an hour away.…
The Avengers 2 starts filming on location in northern Italy
Superhero sequel The Avengers: Age of Ultron is filming on location in the town of Aosta in northern Italy. Second-unit work has already taken place in Johannesburg, South Africa, and filming is also scheduled for the Korean capital Seoul. The…
Location Scotland creates new LS Motion department
The Edinburgh-based full service production and location management company Location Scotland has announced the launch of new TV production department LS Motion. Client demand for moving image production alongside stills shoots in Scotland has resulted in a natural progression for…
Darren Aronofsky and Russell Crowe film biblical epic Noah in Iceland and New York
Darren Aronofsky filmed on location in Iceland and New York for his biblical epic Noah, based on the Old Testament story. Russell Crowe stars as Noah, who feels compelled to build an ark when he experiences disturbing visions of an…
Eleisha McNeill: Working as a TV fixer on location in New Zealand
Having been a production manager and then reporter for a New Zealand TV show, I spent five years setting up shoots all around my home country, seeing small-town New Zealand and meeting the colourful characters who make this country what…