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Plans submitted for new Scottish film studio in Straiton outside Edinburgh
A development company has submitted plans for a privately-funded Scottish film studio in Straiton south of Edinburgh. The capital hosted over 350 productions in 2014, including romantic period drama Outlander, which spent a little over two weeks filming in the…
Martin Scorsese and Andrew Garfield film Taiwan for religious drama Silence
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese and star Andrew Garfield are approaching the end of their Taiwan shoot for period drama Silence. The long-gestating movie tells the story of two 17th century priests on the search for their mentor in a Japan plagued…
Western movie series Winnetou to film on location in Croatia
A new trilogy of Western movies based on the Winnetou novels by bestselling 19th century German author Karl May is to film in Croatia. May’s stories of fictional Native American character Winnetou were first adapted for the screen in the…
Spanish heritage: Scouting filming locations in historical Catalonia
Catalonia in north-eastern Spain is building on its rich local filmmaking history by appealing more to the international production community. The Location Guide set out on a scouting trip hosted by the Catalunya Film Commission to explore the region’s sights…
North Carolina issues $60m in filming tax credits for 2014
North Carolina paid out USD 60 million in filming tax credits in 2014 and made over USD 240 million in direct production spending, according to official figures. At the height of its filming incentive popularity, North Carolina hosted the first…
History Channel to film new version of classic slavery drama Roots
History Channel is set to film a new adaptation of Roots, a true-life slavery drama that was first made into an award-winning miniseries in 1977. The story is based on a novel by African American writer Alex Haley, who traced…
Nashville TV drama offered filming incentive payment for new season
Television drama Nashville has been offered an USD 8 million filming incentive payment to shoot a fourth season on location in its namesake city. The series follows a fading country music star forced to work with a young starlet to…
American Civil War miniseries Mercy Street filming on location in Virginia
New American Civil War drama Mercy Street is filming on location in Virginia. The series follows two volunteer nurses on each side of the conflict, including a Confederate supporter whose family’s luxury hotel became a Unionist hospital during the war.…
Hampshire draws Hollywood blockbusters to English south coast
In the summer of 2014 Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Captain America descended on a large lake in a wooded part of rural north-east Hampshire to film Avengers: Age of Ultron. The Marvel production is one of…
British Film Commission fam trip takes North American TV delegates across UK
A week-long familiarisation (fam) trip organised by the British Film Commission has taken a North American delegation across the whole of the UK for the first time. The trip was designed to showcase the UK’s TV filming potential after recent…