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Economic impact of Edinburgh location filming grows more than 50%
Edinburgh hosted 361 separate productions in 2014, resulting in a local economic impact of nearly GBP 5 million, an increase of 53% on the previous year. Television drama Outlander filmed in the capital for 19 days. A revised Film Charter…
UK creative industries grow for 4th consecutive year to nudge £77bn
The UK’s creative industries have grown for a fourth year to reach a value of nearly GBP 77 billion. Government figures apply to 2013 but the production industry is likely to grow for 2014 when the UK hosted The Avengers:…
BBC true-life courtroom drama The Eichmann Show films Lithuania as Jerusalem
The BBC’s historical drama The Eichmann Show stars Martin Freeman as a pioneering TV producer and filmed on location in Vilnius, Lithuania. Feelgood Fiction doubled the city for Jerusalem to recreate the infamous 1961 trial of prominent Nazi Adolf Eichmann.…
South Africa filming incentives bring Homeland to Cape Town and boost industry
South Africa is enjoying surging popularity as an international filming hotspot. Location Manager Robert Bentley talks about the Cape Town shoot for US spy drama Homeland and how the series has doubled the South African city for locations around the…
James Bond movie Spectre films in Austria
New James Bond movie Spectre is filming on location in Austria, continuing a shoot that’s scheduled to span seven months and at least five different countries. The new film’s title was announced at Pinewood Studios in December. Shooting has started…
BBC to film historical miniseries War and Peace in Russia and northern Europe
The BBC will film a new miniseries of War and Peace on location in Russia, Lithuania and Latvia. Tom Harper will direct the six-part drama telling Leo Tolstoy’s story of Russian aristocrats against the backdrop of the French invasion of…
Marion Cotillard co-directs short film for Dior in France with Bliss Inc
Marion Cotillard co-directed short film Enter the Game for Dior and Bliss Inc in Meyreuil in the south of France, a location intended to evoke Los Angeles. Cotillard also stars as a woman enjoying the tranquil surrounds of her hillside…
Fall in Norwegian krone drives national 35% production cost drop
This winter is a cost-effective time to shoot in Norway as the Norwegian krone has fallen to its weakest position in more than a decade. One British pound now gives you 11.5 krone, up 35% from 8.5 krone two years…
Filming Spain: The Location Guide visits the historic city of Valladolid near Madrid
Valladolid is an hour north-west of Madrid and is the capital of the Castile and Leon region in north-west Spain. I'm invited by the Valladolid Film Office to spend a weekend in the historic city and see what it has…
Rachel Weisz and Michael Fassbender film period movie in Tasmania town
British stars Rachel Weisz and Michael Fassbender are filming period drama The Light Between Oceans in Stanley in the Australian island state Tasmania. Willem Dafoe’s atmospheric drama The Hunter has been among the highest-profile features to shoot in Tasmania in…