Screen Scotland, the new dedicated partnership catering to the Scottish production industry sits within Creative Scotland and is tasked with supporting and developing the sector. Backed with GBP20 million from the Scottish Government and the National Lottery, the body takes over at a crucial time for the nation’s industry.
FilmL.A. released their 2017 Feature Film Study today, revealing Canada as the top location for Hollywood production.
ITV’s upcoming adaptation of William Makepeace Thackery’s classic novel, Vanity Fair, began filming in September last year and is due to air this Autumn. The seven-part series filmed on location across London, including Marble Hill House and Fitzroy Square, and in Hungary's Budapest.
Production will soon be underway for Mammoth Screen’s adaptation of The ABC Murders, with scenes to be filmed in Ripon, North Yorkshire. The project will star John Malkovich as Agatha Christie’s iconic detective, Hercule Poirot.
The BBC’s latest high-budget miniseries, A Very English Scandal, transformed several locations throughout London to match its 1960/70s setting. The production travelled to backdrops including the Albert Embankment in Lambeth, where Jeremy Thorpe (Hugh Grant) and Norman Scott (Ben Whishaw) share a romantic moment.
The Location Guide’s first bespoke magazine for global production, makers, will be launching at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Amazon Studios’ crime drama, Sneaky Pete, will relocate from New York to make use of California’s tax credit incentive. California provides a special 25% tax credit for television productions that relocate from out-of-state, with Sneaky Pete being the thirteenth series to tap into the relocation incentive.
After shooting over a three-month period in Los Angeles, production for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Amazon series, Too Old To Die Young, has shifted to Albuquerque, New Mexico. The New Mexico shoot began on Tuesday and will locally employ 75-100 crew members, 20 cast/stunt actors and approximately 240 extras in the process.