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From Dusk Till Dawn TV miniseries filming on location in Texas
A TV miniseries based on the Robert Rodriguez road-movie horror From Dusk Till Dawn is filming in Austin, Texas. Quentin Tarantino wrote and co-starred in the original 1996 film that followed a group of misfits fighting vampires in a desert…
Louisiana begins review of state location filming incentive
Louisiana has begun a review of its location filming incentive. The state offers an uncapped 30% filming tax credit that's helped attract movies on the scale of Ender's Game, but the programme is expensive and there’s pressure to redirect funds…
Matthew McConaughey feature Dallas Buyers Club doubles Louisiana for Texas
Feature film Dallas Buyers Club, whose star Matthew McConaughey is being widely tipped for an Oscar nomination, filmed on location in New Orleans, doubling the Louisiana city for Dallas, Texas. The film tells the true story of a bigoted electrician…
Louisiana doubling for Kansas and Massachusetts in new filming projects
Louisiana is doubling for Kansas and Massachusetts in two separate productions. Charlize Theron is among the stars heading to Shreveport for new Kansas-set thriller Dark Places, while TV series Salem, based on the 17th Century witch hunts in Massachusetts, is…
Shreveport crew training could boost filming in northern Louisiana
Shreveport in north-west Louisiana plans to launch more crew training programmes to help boost the region’s production industry. Louisiana is one of America’s main production hubs but filming tends to focus on New Orleans and state capital Baton Rouge in…
Filming on location in the Loire Valley with Film Commissioner Fanny Barrot
Fanny joined the Loire Valley Film Commission in central France as a student and assistant, and her interest in architecture and landscape photography carried her to the role of commissioner. She’s now been with the organisation for five years. What…
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes films on location in Louisiana
Sci-fi sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes will film partly on location in Louisiana. The movie will double the southern state for San Francisco as it takes advantage of a filming incentive worth a base rate of 30%.…
Django Unchained: Location Manager Wise Wolfe films Louisiana with Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino has headed back in time once again for Django Unchained, his ‘Southern Western’. Location Manager Wise Wolfe talks to TLG about fighting the weather on location and recreating the slave plantations of 1850s Louisiana. Django Unchained tells the…
Woody Harrelson and Morgan Freeman film on location in Louisiana
Now You See Me, a crime drama featuring Woody Harrelson and Morgan Freeman, has become one of the latest features to use Louisiana’s filming incentive programme. The production shut down part of the Crescent City Connection, twin cantilever bridges that…
Planning permission turned down for 'Project Pinewood' UK plan
A major expansion plan at Pinewood Studios in the UK has been halted. ‘Project Pinewood’ would have included a 100-acre set, but planning permission has been refused. The development would have included permanent sets for cities like New York, Venice…