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BBC America uses British Columbia filming incentives for TV drama Intruders
New BBC America TV drama Intruders shot on location in Vancouver, British Columbia, using the province’s filming incentives to double the city for Seattle. The series follows a secretive society that seeks refuge in the bodies of others as a…
Hollywood calls for expanded film studio facilities in South Africa as interest grows
Hollywood has called on South Africa to expand the filming infrastructure in cities like Cape Town as interest grows in the country. Pirate drama Black Sails is among the high-profile productions currently filming in South Africa, from a base at…
Miner drama The 33 first international movie to get Colombian filming incentive
True-life feature The 33 has become the first international movie to get a payment from Colombia’s new filming incentive programme. The movie recounts the story of 33 miners who were trapped down a mine shaft in Chile for 69 days…
Crime drama NCIS New Orleans films on location on Navy destroyer in Baton Rouge
New crime drama NCIS: New Orleans is filming on location this week on a Navy destroyer in Baton Rouge. The USS KIDD Veterans Museum is a decommissioned World War II-era destroyer permanently stationed in Baton Rouge as a memorial to…
Proposed California filming incentive boost clears latest hurdle with $400m fund
A proposed boost to California’s filming incentive programme has cleared the latest political hurdle on the way to becoming law. The increased tax credit was approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee with an annual fund of around USD 400 million.…
Great Guns creates riot in Kiev filming Santigold music video
Great Guns created its own riot in Ukrainian capital Kiev for a music video for singer-songwriter Santigold. Produced for the compilation album Beats of the Beautiful Game, Kicking Down Doors shows a face-off between protestors and riot police being diffused…
Historical drama Clavius to film in Malta with Joseph Fiennes and Tom Felton
Historical drama Clavius will film partly on location in Malta with British actors Joseph Fiennes and Tom Felton. Set in the early 1st Century AD, the story follows an agnostic Roman Centurion who sets out to locate the body of…
Film fixer Eric Brown: California very viable location for commercial producers
California is still a popular filming location for commercial shoots, despite steadily losing out on feature and TV drama production. Eric Brown runs Fixer Films and explains that commercials have not been as affected by California’s limited filming incentive as…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles filming boosts New York with $55m spend
A reboot of action franchise Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has helped boost New York’s production industry with direct spending of more than USD55 million. The new film shot for over 70 days in New York City and spent USD30 million…
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…