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Sci-fi feature Elysium films Mexico City doubling for dystopian Los Angeles
Sci-fi feature Elysium filmed partly on location in Mexico City, doubling the region for a dystopian Los Angeles. The film is set 150 years in the future on an Earth divided between a poverty-afflicted surface population and an orbiting luxury…
Bollywood movie Ramanujan films on location in UK city of Cambridge
New Bollywood movie Ramanujan has filmed scenes on location in Cambridge in the east of England. The GBP2 million Indo-British production tells the true story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian maths prodigy who was brought to Cambridge to study in…
Filming in the Canary Islands with location scout Yanira de Armas-Tosco
The Canary Islands are a popular filming location for big-budget Hollywood productions. Location scout Yanira de Armas-Tosco explains how the islands off the Atlantic coast of Morocco double for global locations. Major studio films are regular visitors to the islands…
Hallmark cancels Colorado TV shoot for Vancouver filming incentives
Hallmark has cancelled plans to film a period TV miniseries on location in Colorado. When Calls the Heart will instead shoot in Vancouver, where it will have access to British Columbia's filming incentives, as well as an existing period town…
Fantastic Four cancels Vancouver shoot for Louisiana filming incentives
An upcoming reboot of superhero franchise The Fantastic Four has cancelled plans to film on location in Vancouver. Twentieth Century Fox has instead opted to shoot in Louisiana, following the recent renewal of the southern state’s generous 30% filming tax…
Chicago prepares for Transformers 4 and Jupiter Ascending location filming
Chicago is hosting a summer of location filming spearheaded by the latest Transformers movie and the Wachowski siblings’ new sci-fi feature Jupiter Ascending. The city will also be hosting six ongoing television series. “We’ve always known that Chicago has beautiful…
Scotland: Let me introduce myself
With over a third of the UK landmass, but populated by a mere 8% of the UK’s population, Scotland has more natural space and wilderness than practically any other European country. We can boast the UK’s highest mountains and deepest…
Fast & Furious franchise reaches out to fans for location filming ideas
The makers of the Fast & Furious action franchise have asked fans to suggest filming locations for the next movie. Fast & Furious 7 is scheduled for release in July 2014 and the filmmakers have used Facebook to ask for…
Elementary brings television location filming to Trafalgar Square in London
American crime drama Elementary has become the latest production to film on location in Trafalgar Square in central London. The modern-day Sherlock Holmes series is usually filmed in New York but has shot in the UK for the opening of…
Oresund film tourism boosted by success of Wallander and The Killing
Brooding crime dramas have put the Oresund region of Sweden and Denmark on the production map and have boosted local film tourism. While Wallander has been remade by the BBC, the US remake of hit Oresund murder mystery The Bridge…