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The Dark Knight Rises fails to qualify for Pittsburgh location filming incentives
The Dark Knight Rises won’t be getting any cash back for its upcoming Pittsburgh shoot through the state incentive scheme. Pittsburgh will be doubling for Gotham City but productions must spend at least 60% of their total budget in the…
The Dark Knight Rises films on location at Wollaton Hall in Nottingham
The bat has come to Nottingham; specifically Wollaton Hall, a 16th Century Elizabethan mansion in the city. Christopher Nolan’s third Batman project is rumoured to have been filming in locations all over the UK, but Wollaton Hall is the first…
Brad Pitt’s World War Z to film on location in Cornish town of Falmouth
Brad Pitt’s zombie thriller World War Z will be casting for extras this weekend for a shoot in Falmouth, Cornwall, south-west England. The story is set in Philadelphia, but Glasgow will be doubling for the Pennsylvania city in August and…
TLG talks to Dark Knight and Clash of the Titans Executive Producer Kevin de la Noy
When you're the Executive Producer on films with budgets that routinely hover around the USD150 million mark, you expect to get a lot of messages. For the first 20 minutes I spend with Kevin de la Noy on a wet…
Doritos films on location in Mexico for Dip Desperado commercial
Tortilla chip brand Doritos has embraced the image of the Western gunslinger and filmed its new commercial on location in Mexico. Dip Desperado charts the fictional life of Esteban Ortega, a Mexican peasant who finds fame and glory flicking Doritos…
AICP survey reveals higher US spending but fewer foreign filming trips
A survey for the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) shows a spending rise in 2010, as well as the highest number of location shoot days in three years. Also, the appetite among US production companies for filming abroad has…
Washington State ends filming incentive
The filming incentive in Washington State has been ended after local politicians decided the 30% cash rebate programme wasn’t having a big enough economic impact. More than 20 projects received collective incentives worth USD5.4 million through the course of 2010,…
Medieval Malta and the Jordan desert stand in for Iraq in The Devil’s Double
Feature drama The Devil’s Double has filmed in Malta and Jordan, using each country as a stand-in for Iraq. Set in the late 1980s, the film tells the fact-based story of a lieutenant in the Iraqi army who is forced…
Kellogg scouts global filming locations and chooses Mauritius beach for Special K ad
A beach in Mauritius was eventually chosen as the setting for a new commercial for Kellogg’s breakfast cereal Special K, after a globe-trotting scout. The spot promotes the company’s online slimming plan and shows a group of women showing off…
TLG talks to Exec Producer Nigel Wooll about Ridley Scott, Roman Polanski and Madonna
If you want to hear about why Ridley Scott is the most talented director ever, where to find ‘royal palace’-calibre stately homes, the new Millennium Film Finance Corporation and Egyptian camel-wrangling, then you’d enjoy a chat with feature film Executive…