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American Sniper and Taken 3 among film winners at California On Location Awards
Clint Eastwood’s true-life drama American Sniper and Liam Neeson’s action sequel Taken 3 were among the movie winners at this year’s California On Location Awards (COLAs). The ceremony has been recognising the achievements of location professionals in California for 20…
Interstellar Location Manager Mandi Dillin on US filming hubs and California hopes
Mandi Dillin has worked on many of the biggest movies of recent years, including Inception, The Dark Knight Rises and now Interstellar for Christopher Nolan. She talks to The Location Guide about US production centres and her hopes for California’s…
BBC films second series of crime drama The Fall in Northern Ireland
The BBC has returned to Northern Ireland to film a second series of its hit crime drama The Fall. Set and shot in Belfast, the series continues the story of Jamie Dorman’s serial killer evading the police led by Gillian…
Drone movie Eye in the Sky doubles South Africa for global filming locations
A new film set in the secretive world of unmanned military drone strikes has finished filming in South Africa, doubling the country for locations around the world. Helen Mirren co-stars in Eye in the Sky, which follows a drone mission…
Young adult drama Paper Towns starts filming on location in North Carolina
A movie adaptation of the popular young adult novel Paper Towns has started filming on location in Charlotte, North Carolina. The state is currently best known for hosting several high-profile TV dramas including Under the Dome based on a story…
Tom Cruise films aerial stunt for Mission Impossible 5 at East Anglia RAF base
Tom Cruise has filmed an aerial stunt for Mission: Impossible 5 at an RAF base in East Anglia in the UK. The action franchise is now well known for daring physical stunt work, with Cruise scaling Dubai’s Burj Khalifa for…
Game of Thrones shoot instantly boosts film tourism in Spanish town Osuna
Shooting for the fifth season of HBO’s hit fantasy drama Game of Thrones has had an instant impact on film tourism in the town of Osuna in southern Spain. Servicing for the shoot has helped boost the town and an…
Calgary film studio development starts with groundbreaking ceremony
Work has started on the Calgary Film Centre studio in Alberta, Canada, with a groundbreaking ceremony. The USD 20 million complex will eventually offer more than 80,000 sq ft of production facilities and could help attract more shoots on the…
Jessica Biel and Patrick Wilson to film The Blunderer on location in Cincinnati
Actors Jessica Biel and Patrick Wilson will film new movie The Blunderer entirely on location in the Greater Cincinnati region of south-west Ohio. The film marks a return to the city for producers Christine Vachon and Ted Hope, who shot…
Assassin movie Hunter’s Prayer to film Harrogate in North Yorkshire as Europe
Sam Worthington’s new film, the assassin thriller Hunter’s Prayer, is set to double Harrogate in North Yorkshire for the streets of Switzerland. Filming locations across Yorkshire in northern England will double for mainland Europe for the story of an assassin…