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Film New Zealand boss reiterates importance of high-end TV productions
Film New Zealand Chief Executive Gisella Carr has reiterated the importance of attracting high-end TV productions. Under new rules, TV series on the scale of Game of Thrones will be able to access New Zealand’s filming incentives with much lower…
Los Angeles film czar to prepare California filming plan before May 2014
Los Angeles’ new ‘film czar’ has said that a plan to boost filming in California will be prepared before May this year. Tom Sherak is a former movie studio boss and has been appointed by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti…
Modern Family TV comedy to film holiday episode on location in Australia
Hit Los Angeles-based comedy show Modern Family is to film a holiday episode on location in Australia. Twentieth Century Fox Television has made an agreement with airline Qantas to fly the cast out for two weeks of location filming that…
Stink Digital films 720-degree footage in Portugal for Miru contact lens brand
Stink Digital filmed on location in the Douro Valley region of northern Portugal in a new spot for Japanese contact lens brand Miru. The production used an adapted remote-controlled OctoCopter camera rig to create a 720-degree view of balloons drifting…
TV dramas deliver for North Carolina and could help renew filming incentive
A series of major TV dramas – including the Stephen King miniseries Under the Dome – filmed in North Carolina in 2013 and helped deliver production spending of USD254 million. This could bolster calls to renew the state’s 25% filming…
Broadchurch miniseries remake to film in British Columbia with David Tennant
An American remake of the acclaimed British miniseries Broadchurch is scheduled to start filming this month in the Greater Victoria region of British Columbia. Like the original UK series, Gracepoint will tell the story of the impact of a child…
ABC Studios to film fairy tale TV pilot Galavant on location in UK
American network ABC Studios will film the pilot for its new musical fairy tale TV show Galavant on location in the UK. In doing so, it will be the first US-produced pilot to be shot in the UK since the…
Filming for new Cate Blanchett feature to double Cincinnati for New York
Cate Blanchett’s new relationship drama Carol will film on location in Ohio, recreating 1950s New York in Cincinnati. The production team has previous experience of filming in the city and the film will get local incentive support. “We are delighted…
Dwayne Johnson to film disaster feature San Andreas on location in Australia
Action star Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson will film big-budget disaster movie San Andreas on location in Queensland, doubling the Australian state for California. Johnson will play a helicopter pilot searching for his daughter in the aftermath of an earthquake that…
Mad Max 4 finishes filming with location work near Sydney
George Miller’s new dystopian sequel Mad Max: Fury Road finished filming recently with a location shoot just outside Sydney in Australia. Much of the film was shot on location in Namibia, which offered the right sun-blasted post-apocalyptic visuals needed for…