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Revolutionary War TV spy drama to film on location in Virginia with Jamie Bell
A new TV spy drama set during America’s Revolutionary War of the 1770s will be filmed on location in Virginia with star Jamie Bell. Turn could be similar in style to the 1992 film The Last of the Mohicans, which…
Jane Campion TV crime drama Top of the Lake films in southern New Zealand
New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion filmed new crime drama Top of the Lake on location in the Otago region of New Zealand’s South Island. The seven-part BBC miniseries follows a detective investigating the disappearance of the pregnant daughter of a…
Hobbit film tourism helps boost US-New Zealand visits for early 2013
Peter Jackson’s first Hobbit movie helped boost film tourism to New Zealand in the first quarter of 2013. There was a 23% increase in the number of Americans visiting the country and about one in ten US visitors said the…
Film NZ chief Gisella Carr on New Zealand’s location filming future
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy put New Zealand’s filming locations firmly in the spotlight and a decade later he’s repeating the trick with The Hobbit. Film NZ Chief Executive Gisella Carr talks to The Location Guide about the…
Air New Zealand claims sales spur through Hobbit film tourism
Air New Zealand has said its online sales have grown since its marketing tie-ins with Peter Jackson’s first Hobbit film earlier this year. Film tourism first gave New Zealand a boost when the Lord of the Rings trilogy was released…
Future of New Zealand’s filming incentives likely to be announced in coming months
The future of New Zealand’s location filming incentives is likely to be announced within months. A review has been underway for some time and the size of subsidies paid to Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films has ignited a political row. Jackson’s…
New Zealand Prime Minister’s Office sheds light on Hobbit production spending
Details of production spending from location filming on Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films have been revealed by the Office of Prime Minister John Key in New Zealand. The figures were released when politicians questioned how many jobs the films created. Officially,…
BBC TV series films on location near Queenstown in New Zealand
A new BBC TV drama scheduled to screen at Sundance in January 2013 and then in the UK in March, was filmed on location near Queenstown in New Zealand. Top of the Lake is a seven-part series that follows a…
New Zealand to focus on globally-competitive TV filming incentives
New Zealand will focus on keeping its TV filming incentives globally competitive, rather than sweetening its feature tax credit. Prime Minister John Key said the country’s minimum spend for TV productions to get incentive support needs to be lowered. At…
Peter Jackson urges New Zealand to be flexible with location filming incentives
Filmmaker Peter Jackson has urged the New Zealand Government to be flexible with location filming incentives in the coming years. He stressed that the hobbit trilogy came very close to being filmed in the UK partly because of a high-profile…