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Pirates of the Caribbean 5 starts filming on location in Australia
Johnny Depp is returning in his popular role as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, which has started filming in Australia. The movie is based at Village Roadshow Studios in Queensland and will…
Tim Burton to film new movie partially on location in Florida’s Tampa Bay
Filmmaker Tim Burton will spend a couple of weeks shooting his new movie in the Tampa Bay region of Florida’s Gulf Coast after local filming incentives were created for him. Burton’s adaptation of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will…
National Trust launches map of BBC’s Wolf Hall filming locations
The National Trust has published a map of the UK filming locations used for the BBC’s historical drama Wolf Hall to help boost tourism. Some 40% of the series was filmed on National Trust properties and the organisation is expecting…
Seven Senses films new VW Tiguan commercial on location in central Spain
Madrid-based Seven Senses filmed in central Spain for a commercial for the VW Tiguan. The spot features a group of dads fleeing a group family barbecue for a drive through grasslands and across dramatic cliff tops. The production team needed…
Northwest Territories in Canada launches pilot filming incentive programme
A pilot filming incentive programme has been launched in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT) in a bid to boost regional production. Positioned north of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, the province has hosted several documentaries and the drama series Arctic Air.…
Curious Mumbai films Austria as alpine India for Milton Electron Tiffin spot
Curious Mumbai chose to film on location in Austria for a new commercial for electrical appliance the Milton Electron Tiffin. Set in a mountainous part of India, the spot features a group of soldiers whose spirits are raised when they…
Filming for lavish TV drama Indian Summers doubles Malaysia for 1930s India
New Pictures filmed the lavish period TV series Indian Summers on location in Penang, Malaysia, doubling the region for northern India. Set in 1932, the Channel 4 series tells a story of social drama during the dying days of the…
BBC films Sherlock in Bristol with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman
Filming wraps today in Bristol on a special episode of the BBC’s hit drama series Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. Scenes were filmed at the team’s production base in The Bottle Yard Studios and on location around the…
Boosted California filming incentive set to prioritise TV production
Planned spending figures from the California Film Commission reveal that TV production will be prioritised under the state’s boosted filming incentive. State authorities are more than tripling the annual film fund and expanding support to big-budget movies and TV shoots.…
BBC films JK Rowling novel The Casual Vacancy on location in Bristol
Filming took place partly in Bristol in the west of England for the BBC’s new three-part TV drama The Casual Vacancy, based on JK Rowling’s adult novel. Bristol has become a popular western England filming location and shoots are frequently…