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Savannah in Georgia appoints veteran filmmaker to promote city as movie location
Authorities in Savannah, Georgia, have appointed a veteran filmmaker to promote the city as a key US movie location. Savannah recently hosted Channing Tatum’s male-stripper drama Magic Mike XXL and Ralph Singleton will work to continue boosting the city’s filmmaking…
Marvel shoots TV drama Agent Carter in LA as California preps for filming boost
Marvel and ABC are shooting new TV series Agent Carter in Los Angeles. The drama will be set in 1946 and follows the adventures of Hayley Atwell’s Agent Peggy Carter after the events of Marvel’s 2011 superhero movie Captain America:…
Roman Coppola to headline Ciclope International Festival of Craft 2014
Filmmaker Roman Coppola will headline this year’s Ciclope International Festival of Craft in Berlin. Ciclope recognises the craft of storytelling in international audiovisual production and this year’s event takes place on 6 and 7 November. The Location Guide is a…
The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol welcomes Radium Audio as new tenant
The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol in the UK have welcomed Radium Audio as a new tenant. Increasingly popular as a film studio facility, the Bottle Yard has hosted TV shows like supermarket comedy Trollied, historical drama Wolf Hall and…
Australian conspiracy drama The Code boosts filming profile for capital Canberra
Location filming for Australian drama The Code has helped raise Canberra’s profile as a filming location. Filmed partly in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) of Canberra, the series follows two brothers caught in a political conspiracy when they investigate an…
West Virginia Film Office launches iPhone app connecting to state-wide resources
A new iPhone app has been launched by the West Virginia Film Office to aid filmmakers considering a local shoot. JJ Abrams’ alien drama Super 8 and TV miniseries The World Wars are among the productions that have shot in…
RCN Films shoots in Colombian national park for glass bottle maker O-I
RCN Films shot in Colombia’s Tayrona National Park for a new campaign for the glass bottle manufacturer O-I. The spot features a castaway on a blustery desert island whose attempts to cast a message in a bottle into the sea…
Fantasy movie sequel The Scorch Trials to film on location in New Mexico
Fantasy movie The Scorch Trials is set to film on location in New Mexico through to January next year. The film is the follow-up to recent hit teen movie The Maze Runner and will follow a group of young adults…
Harpoon Pictures films seaplanes and dozens of extras for Verizon Alaska shoot
Harpoon Pictures filmed in Alaska for an epic new campaign promoting the arrival of internet service provider Verizon in the north-west US state. Arrival features engineers making the journey to a lakeside Alaskan home by land, air and water to…
Steven Spielberg adds Polish city to filming locations for Cold War spy drama
Steven Spielberg has added the city of Wroclaw in south-west Poland to his list of filming locations for his new Cold War spy drama. Now called St. James Place, the movie stars Tom Hanks and is shooting mainly in New…