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The Location Guide is heading to Berlinale 2017
TLG will be in attendance at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. Now in its 67th year, Berlinale is one of the most prominent film festivals in the world and a key networking event for the European production industry. Clara…
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…
Matthew McConaughey filming Civil War drama The Free State Of Jones in Louisiana
Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey has started filming new Civil War drama The Free State of Jones on location in New Orleans, doubling the state for Mississippi. Louisiana is no stranger to historical features, having recently hosted Django Unchained and 12 Years…
Quentin Tarantino boosts Colorado with location filming for The Hateful Eight
Filming for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight has proven a big boost for Telluride, Colorado. The filmmaker’s second Western after Django Unchained has been filming for several weeks and may stay longer than planned as there hasn’t been enough snow…
Interstellar Location Manager Mandi Dillin on US filming hubs and California hopes
Mandi Dillin has worked on many of the biggest movies of recent years, including Inception, The Dark Knight Rises and now Interstellar for Christopher Nolan. She talks to The Location Guide about US production centres and her hopes for California’s…
Santa Clarita annexes California movie ranches to reduce filming costs
Santa Clarita, a city in northern Los Angeles County, has annexed three movie ranches to further reduce the cost of local filming. The city has a series of movie ranches that offer various standing sets within easy reach of the…
Quentin Tarantino secures filming incentive to bring The Hateful Eight to Colorado
Quentin Tarantino will be given a USD 5 million filming incentive to shoot his new movie, Western drama The Hateful Eight, on location in Colorado. The filmmaker reportedly chose the state over Wyoming, where he shot scenes for his slavery…
New Terminator movie starts filming on location in New Orleans
Filming on the new Terminator movie has started on location in New Orleans. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to the franchise that first made him a movie superstar back in the mid-80s. The film will be the fourth sequel to James Cameron’s…
12 Years a Slave recreates antebellum south filming in Louisiana
Director Steve McQueen filmed in the Louisiana city of New Orleans for his award-winning drama 12 Years a Slave. The film tells the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York in the 1840s, who…
Shreveport crew training could boost filming in northern Louisiana
Shreveport in north-west Louisiana plans to launch more crew training programmes to help boost the region’s production industry. Louisiana is one of America’s main production hubs but filming tends to focus on New Orleans and state capital Baton Rouge in…