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Sequel to hit Mall Cop comedy gets first Nevada filming incentive payment
Sony Pictures’ comedy sequel Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 has become the first movie to win approval for Nevada’s new filming incentive. The original Paul Blart: Mall Cop filmed in Massachusetts and was a huge hit so the sequel could…
Cable channel Syfy to film TV event series Ascension on location in Montreal
Cable channel Syfy will film TV miniseries Ascension in Montreal, Canada. The series will follow a murder investigation on a vast interstellar space mission launched at the height of the Cold War. X-Men: Days of Future Past has been among…
Disney Channel to film major four-part TV movie Evermoor on location in UK
The Disney Channel is to film a new four-part TV movie on location in the UK. Mystery drama Evermoor will shoot at Arley Hall & Gardens in Cheshire in northern England and will mark Disney Channel’s first live-action movie to…
Warner Bros Television films Constantine comic book pilot on location in Atlanta
Warner Bros Television is filming the pilot for a Constantine TV series in Atlanta, Georgia. The pilot is based on the DC Comics character John Constantine, an occult conman-turned-detective who in the comics originates from Liverpool, England. Constantine was made…
History Channel could film in south-west US for new Western miniseries Texas Rising
The History Channel could film in the south-west US for its new Western miniseries, tentatively titled Texas Rising. Featuring a cast led by Bill Paxton and Brendan Fraser, the drama will be History's second Western after Hatfields & McCoys, which…
AICP President and CEO Matt Miller on the US commercial filming industry
Matt Miller spent five years with the Association of National Advertisers before joining the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP). He set to work developing the day-to-day structure and this April will mark his twentieth year with the organisation as…
Filmmaker Alexander Payne to receive honorary award at LMGA event
Filmmaker Alexander Payne will receive The Eva Monley Award at the Location Managers Guild of America (LMGA) Awards in Los Angeles on 29 March. Director of Photography Haskell Wexler and Commercial Location Scout Scott Dewees will also get honorary awards.…
California feature filming ranks behind UK and Canada for 2013
California took the fourth spot behind Louisiana, Canada and the UK for its popularity as a filming location in 2013, according to a new report from FilmLA. The west coast state’s share of the biggest 25 movies of the year…
BBC period drama Peaky Blinders films limited scenes on location in Birmingham
The second series of the BBC’s period gangster drama Peaky Blinders has filmed limited scenes in Birmingham in central England. Although set in Birmingham in the early 1920s, the drama will spend most of its four-month shoot further north in…
Park Pictures creates Prohibition-era US city in Johannesburg filming for Dulux
Park Pictures in London created a Prohibition-era US city in Johannesburg, South Africa, for a new spot for Dulux. Colour Love Story presents a period city where colour is banned, but when a truckload of paint crashes in the street,…