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Location Managers Guild of America announces nominations for 2015 awards
The Location Managers Guild of America has announced the nominations for its second annual awards show. Location professionals will spend the next few weeks voting and the winners will be announced at a ceremony in Beverly Hills on 7 March.…
BBC Films bases war memoir Testament Of Youth on location in Yorkshire
A feature adaptation of famous First World War memoir Testament Of Youth based its location filming in Yorkshire, northern England, but also shot in Oxford and London. The film tells the story of Vera Brittain’s experiences as an Oxford student…
American Sniper helps boost filming days in Santa Clarita region of California
Clint Eastwood’s true-life drama American Sniper helped boost location filming days in Santa Clarita in Los Angeles County, California. In 2014 the city posted year-on-year increases in both the number of filming permits issued and the number of overall filming…
Wes Anderson movie The Grand Budapest Hotel leads 2015 BAFTA nominations
Wes Anderson’s quirky comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel has landed 11 nominations for the 2015 BAFTAs. Stephen Hawking romance The Theory of Everything and Alejandro G Iñárritu’s Birdman are among the other leading contenders, with ten nominations each. The Grand…
Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper film American Sniper in Morocco and California
Clint Eastwood and star/producer Bradley Cooper recreated Middle Eastern settings at California movie ranches and in Morocco for their true-life biopic American Sniper. The drama tells the story of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who became the deadliest sniper in US…
Comic book movie Suicide Squad to film with Will Smith at Pinewood Studios Toronto
A star ensemble cast including Will Smith, Jared Leto and Tom Hardy will film new comic book movie Suicide Squad at Pinewood Studios Toronto. The film will be released shortly after Warners' DC Comics entry Batman V Superman: Dawn of…
Benedict Cumberbatch films The Imitation Game in recreated wartime London
Benedict Cumberbatch filmed The Imitation Game partly on location in central London, recreating the capital’s wartime appearance. Cumberbatch plays maths genius Alan Turing, who cracked the Nazi Enigma code and helped significantly shorten World War Two. Several key scenes were…
Middle East dramas in vogue but Israel loses location filming to Malta and Croatia
Biblical screen stories are enjoying a surge in popularity, with Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings planning to emulate the global success of Darren Arronofsky’s Noah. However, a summer of violence in the Middle East means Israel is now losing…
BBC films new comedy series Woody on location in Canary Islands
The BBC is filming on location on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands for new TV comedy series Woody. Set on a fictional Spanish island, the show follows an undercover reporter who gets caught in a series of crimes and…
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…