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Dwayne Johnson TV sports drama Ballers secures filming incentive for Florida shoot
Dwayne Johnson’s upcoming TV sports drama Ballers has secured filming incentive support to shoot on location in Florida from November this year. Johnson previously filmed on location in the state for his Miami-based bodybuilding crime drama Pain & Gain. Florida…
Hybrid fantasy role play show The Quest films on location in Austrian castle
New US series The Quest filmed on location in Austria to find its fantasy setting. The show is a hybrid of fantasy role-play and ‘reality’ drama, and shot mostly at Burg Kreuzenstein, a castle near Vienna. The Quest was developed…
Studio Babelsberg starts work on new back lot set for Berlin filming
Studio Babelsberg has started work on a new back lot set as part of its existing filming facility in Potsdam, near Berlin. The Neue Berliner Straße – or New Berlin Road – is described as a “modular hybrid set” and…
American Civil War TV pilot Point of Honor to film on location in Virginia
Television drama pilot Point of Honor will film on location in Virginia in the eastern US. Telling a story of family drama in the 1860s during the American Civil War, the production is the second period piece to come to…
Filming for crime drama Crossing Lines doubles Prague for cities across Europe
Crime drama Crossing Lines has used Prague as a production base, doubling the Czech city for locations across Europe. The story follows a fictional crime unit within the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague in the Netherlands, which specialises…
Hell on Wheels producers praise Canada filming as Calgary doubles Wyoming
The creative team on period TV drama Hell on Wheels has praised Calgary as a filming location, having doubled the Canadian region for Wyoming in the central US. Set in the mid-19th Century, the show is set against the backdrop…
Matthew McConaughey films Massachusetts as Japan for Sea of Trees
Matthew McConaughey and director Gus Van Sant have doubled Massachusetts for Japan in upcoming film Sea of Trees. The shoot is just the latest high-profile production to come to Massachusetts, following Robert Downey Jr’s The Judge and Denzel Washington’s The…
North Carolina production spending rises but filming incentive future still uncertain
North Carolina has seen an increase in production spending for the first half of 2014, compared to the same period last year. Television dramas like Sleepy Hollow and Under the Dome have helped drive a filming boost, but the future…
US drama Dig to recreate Jerusalem interiors filming on location in New Mexico
The US drama series Dig is to start filming first unit interior scenes in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the city given a profile boost by Breaking Bad. Much of the show’s first series has been shot in Jerusalem, but producers decided…
Dwayne Johnson brings ancient history to Hungary filming Hercules
Action star Dwayne Johnson filmed his new, big-budget version of Hercules on location in Hungary. Production was based at Origo Film Studio in Budapest, a facility that offers eight separate sound stages. “The Hercules production used four of our sound…