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Ireland boosts filming incentive and expands programme to star salaries
Ireland has increased its formal filming incentive from 28% to 32% and has expanded support to cover expenditure on star salaries. Production is focused in and around Dublin, with major TV shoots including historical dramas Vikings, Penny Dreadful and Ripper…
Kate Winslet films period Australian drama The Dressmaker in Victoria
Kate Winslet has completed production on Australian comedy feature The Dressmaker. Filming was based at Dockland Film Studios in Melbourne, Victoria, and also filmed on location across the south-east Australian state. “This shoot would not have been possible without the…
Merry Christmas from The Location Guide!
The Location Guide team extends warm season’s greetings to all our friends and readers around the world. We hope that 2014 has been as fulfilling for you as it has been for us, and we’re looking forward to a productive…
The Walking Dead spinoff series could film on location in California
A spinoff series from hit zombie drama The Walking Dead could become the first high-end TV production to shoot in California using a boosted filming incentive. California has suffered a serious runaway production problem in recent years, partly because of…
National Trust properties in UK prepare for BBC Wolf Hall film tourism boost
Historic National Trust properties in the UK are hoping for a film tourism boost when they appear in the BBC’s period drama Wolf Hall in 2015. Television drama Downton Abbey and movies like Tim Burton’s recent Alice in Wonderland have…
Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper film American Sniper in Morocco and California
Clint Eastwood and star/producer Bradley Cooper recreated Middle Eastern settings at California movie ranches and in Morocco for their true-life biopic American Sniper. The drama tells the story of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who became the deadliest sniper in US…
TV miniseries of classic Dark Ages poem Beowulf to film in north-east England
A new TV miniseries version of the classic Old English poem Beowulf will be filmed on location in north-east England for broadcaster ITV. A high-profile movie version starring Ray Winstone and Angelina Jolie was shot by filmmaker Robert Zemeckis in…
Submarine drama Hunter Killer to film on location in Alaska
Submarine drama Hunter Killer is set to film on location near Anchorage in Alaska. Most of the shoot is reportedly scheduled for the small town of Whittier, 60 miles from the state capital. Whale rescue drama Big Miracle is among…
Fargo TV series to return to Calgary for second season location filming
The TV miniseries adaptation of Fargo will return to Calgary to film its second season. Based on the Coen Brothers’ Oscar-winning 1996 movie, the new series will feature different characters and tell a new story set in 1979. Calgary will…
BBC returns to Morocco for season two filming of adventure series Atlantis
The BBC has returned to Morocco to film scenes for the second series of its historical family adventure series Atlantis. As with the first series, production was based in a retrofitted studio in Chepstow in Wales, but the team also…