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Los Angeles sees big quarterly boost for feature films but TV production falls
Los Angeles saw a large increase in feature film production in the first quarter of 2014, compared to the same period last year, according to FilmLA. Commercial filming saw a small increase but TV production saw an overall decline. The…
China Film Group picks Warcraft and Seventh Son as first Hollywood investments
China Film Group (CFG) has chosen the upcoming US fantasy epics Warcraft and Seventh Son for its first co-funding deal with Hollywood. The state-run company will co-produce both features alongside Legendary Pictures, the studio behind the new Godzilla movie. Warcraft…
Origin Pictures films period drama Jamaica Inn on location in Yorkshire for BBC
Origin Pictures filmed the BBC’s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s novel Jamaica Inn mostly in Yorkshire in northern England. Set in Cornwall, south-west England, in 1821, Jamaica Inn tells the story of a young woman who becomes embroiled with smugglers…
Discovery Channel to film Mount Everest for live TV shows and peak jump
Discovery Channel is set to film nearly a week of live TV broadcasts from Mount Everest’s Base Camp in the Himalayas. The programming will also follow climber Joby Ogwyn as he makes his way to the peak, before leaping from…
Mammoth Screen to film BBC period drama Poldark in Bristol and Cornwall
Mammoth Screen will film new period drama Poldark on location in Bristol and Cornwall in south-west England for the BBC. Company Pictures recently filmed at The Bottle Yard Studios for Channel 4’s period miniseries New Worlds. Poldark is based on…
BBC starts filming second series of The Musketeers on location in Prague
Filming has started on location in Prague for the second season of the BBC’s adventure series The Musketeers. As with the first series, the drama is doubling the Czech Republic for 17th Century Paris in a story inspired by Alexandre…
Salman Khan films Bollywood movie Kick on location in Warsaw
Bollywood star Salman Khan is filming his new movie Kick on location in Warsaw, central Poland. Khan is scheduled to film in the city throughout April and the movie will also shoot on location in Mumbai. Kick will involve action…
Tunisia plans film tourism boost with preservation of Star Wars prequel set
Tunisia plans to boost regional film tourism by preserving a desert set built for the Star Wars prequels in the late 90s. The seventh Star Wars film is rumoured to feature a return to the desert world of Tatooine, a…
Netflix drama series Marco Polo to film on location in Italy and Kazakhstan
New Netflix drama series Marco Polo will film on location in Italy and Kazakhstan, as well as at Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios. The series is being produced by The Weinstein Company and will follow the adventures of the legendary 13th…
BBC fantasy drama Atlantis starts filming second season on location in Wales
The BBC and Urban Myth Films have started shooting a new series of family fantasy drama Atlantis on location in south Wales. Filming is taking place at a retrofitted studio facility in Chepstow, east of Cardiff. “It was a delight…