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Atomic Fiction becomes latest visual effects company to open Montreal office
Atomic Fiction has become the latest visual effects company to open an office in Montreal, Quebec. The company’s recent projects include the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, Transformers: Age of Extinction and Need for Speed. The firm will retain…
California signs new $330m filming incentive into law for 2015
California has signed into law a boosted filming incentive that will take effect from 2015. Formalising a deal agreed in August, the move increases the state’s annual film fund to USD 330 million for the next five years. Production support…
Chinese reality TV show could prove huge tourism boost for New Zealand
A Chinese reality TV show filming on location in New Zealand could deliver a big tourism boost for the country. Dad, where are we going? features five celebrity Chinese fathers taking their young children on a series of challenges and…
Australian version of reality game show I’m A Celebrity to film in Africa
An Australian version of the UK reality show I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! will film in a jungle location in Africa. The format puts minor celebrities in a ‘remote’ jungle camp where they complete trials for privileges…
Los Angeles could face fight to keep Late Late Show with James Corden
California may have to fight to keep CBS chat programme The Late Late Show filming in Los Angeles when long-time host Craig Ferguson leaves later this year. British actor and performer James Corden has been named as Ferguson’s successor but…
Nevada state filming incentive defunded after less than a year
Nevada has had its state filming incentive largely defunded less than a year after its launch. The money has been redirected to help fund a billion-dollar incentive package that will bring manufacturing giant Tesla to the state to build a…
Filming for Mission Impossible 5 and Woman in Gold boosts Vienna production
Austrian capital Vienna has enjoyed a production boost in recent months hosting very different feature films. Tom Cruise brought Mission: Impossible 5 to the city for a short stunt-filled shoot in August and drama Woman in Gold recreated the German…
Louisiana confident of location filming appeal ahead of California incentive boost
Louisiana remains confident that it will still have the edge when California boosts its filming incentives next year. The southern state has a 30% uncapped filming incentive and has recently doubled for California for features including Dawn of the Planet…
DreamWorks prepares to film drama The Light Between Oceans in New Zealand
DreamWorks is preparing to shoot historical drama The Light Between Oceans on location in New Zealand. The movie will feature Michael Fassbender and Rachel Weisz as a couple on a remote Australian island after World War I who adopt an…
Bud Light takes over Colorado town for controversial filming campaign
Beer brand Bud Light has taken over the main street of a town in the US state of Colorado for a controversial new commercial campaign. Crested Butte will become ‘Whatever, USA’ for the weekend and the campaign will fly in…