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Breaking Bad creator reveals New Mexico filming incentives prompted location shift
Television crime drama Breaking Bad was originally set in California but New Mexico’s filming incentives prompted a script change, series creator Vince Gilligan has revealed. The show is coming to an end but inspired an increase in the state’s TV…
Sherpas Cinema films aerial vistas for FlyOver Canada tourism ride
Sherpas Cinema and director Dave Mossop filmed aerial footage across Canada for new tourism ride FlyOver Canada. Launched at Canada Place in Vancouver, the ride is presented as a virtual flight, with the country’s most dramatic locations projected on a…
The Lone Ranger builds Western sets filming on location in New Mexico
Disney’s big-budget feature production of The Lone Ranger built Western sets for extensive filming in New Mexico. Based on the classic 1950s TV series, the film features Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as Ranger John Reid. Among the…
Fargo TV miniseries to choose between Manitoba and Alberta filming locations
A final decision is imminent on whether Manitoba or Alberta in Canada will become the filming location for a new TV miniseries based on the Oscar-winning crime film Fargo. The original 1996 feature took its name from a city in…
Landia brings skateboarding to Sao Paulo filming for ESPN Xgames
Landia followed Brazilian pro-skateboarder Karen Jones on location in Sao Paulo in a new spot for Xgames, an action sports competition run by broadcaster ESPN. Born Free follows Jones and a BMX-riding friend as they turn the city into a…
Hallmark cancels Colorado TV shoot for Vancouver filming incentives
Hallmark has cancelled plans to film a period TV miniseries on location in Colorado. When Calls the Heart will instead shoot in Vancouver, where it will have access to British Columbia's filming incentives, as well as an existing period town…
Warp Films on location in Kent for gun spree TV miniseries Southcliffe
Warp Films shot on location in the market town of Faversham in Kent, south-east England, for TV drama Southcliffe. The miniseries follows a journalist who returns to his hometown in the aftermath of a deadly mass shooting to try and…
Ryan Gosling films Bangkok for nightmarish drama Only God Forgives
Star Ryan Gosling filmed on location in Bangkok for Nicolas Winding Refn’s nightmarish crime feature Only God Forgives. The film follows Gosling’s boxing club owner as he seeks to avenge the murder of his brother in the criminal underworld of…
Wefilm continues Heineken Dropped campaign filming in Morocco
Dutch production company Wefilm travelled to Morocco to film the latest instalment in Wieden+Kennedy’s Dropped digital campaign for Heineken. New York-based photographer William Englehardt was given the task of transporting a giant block of ice to a desert party. Preparing…
Darlow Smithson Productions films period TV drama The Mill in historic Cheshire
London-based Darlow Smithson Productions filmed on location in Cheshire in north-western England for Channel 4’s period TV miniseries The Mill. Set in the early 1830s, the series charts the daily lives and struggles of mill workers during Britain’s Industrial Revolution.…