Robert Eggers’ new horror-thriller The Lighthouse filmed in Nova Scotia, Canada. The production, which has amassed critical praise after its world premiere at 2019 Cannes Film Festival, encountered challenging conditions on location in the western Canadian province during filming in 2018.
Adelaide Studios will provide production facilities for the action film. Based on the popular video published by Warner Bros. the film will also be helmed by their New Line Cinema studio.
Hawaii’s reputation as a tropical paradise is well deserved. Boasting the bluest skies and oceans and the greenest of mountains, Hawaii’s locations are recognised globally in shows such as Hawaii 5-0 and Magnum P.I. Unsurprisingly, current remakes of these shows have proved popular. But from a film production standpoint, Hawaii offers other benefits that may come as a surprise.
Principal photography began in New York in May, before relocating to Morocco. This is the first instance that the action franchise has chosen a filming destination outside Europe and North America.
Joining in 2003, Amanda Neville transformed the BFI into the lead organisation for film, TV and the moving image in the UK, leading initiatives and strategies designed to support a vibrant, national film culture for the independent film sector. She will step down from her position in early 2020.
The five-part miniseries dramatises the events surrounding the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Over one-hundred and fifty sets were built and shooting took place across Ukraine, the UK and Lithuania. The ambitious project saw accuracy and detail as essential to its philosophy. To this end, second unit filming took place in Chernobyl’s exclusion zone, as well as principal production at a nuclear reactor plant in Lithuania.
The scheme launches as Screen Yorkshire looks to develop talent as part of its strategy to secure continued growth in film & TV production levels. Channel 4 is set to begin moving its National Headquarters to Leeds in the second half of 2019, estimated to bring a high number of regional jobs, while Screen Yorkshire launched its region wide film Office in 2018.
In response to a house bill that proposes an end to the Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit, Ohio’s film community are lobbying to keep the 30% tax credit.
PLACE, a film series by Film Construction has launched with a trailer. The series shows conversations between filmmakers that provide insight into location support and production services throughout New Zealand.
I have been the CEO of the Union des Producteurs de Cinema (UPC) since 2007. Before that I was General Counsel of the French Union of Phonographic Producers, which is the French member of the IFPI.