The Sony Pictures production carried out principal production on the reservation with support from the Navajo Nation leadership. Filming was centred in the Shiprock region in north west New Mexico, an area named after a distinguishble jagged rock formation.
Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson and director Cary Joji Fukunaga have announced that on location shoots will take place in Norway, Jamaica, London and Italy for the as yet untitled Bond 25.
An expanded Manhattan hub will create over a hundred executive content, marketing and production jobs by 2024. The streamer will also lease approximately 161,000 square foot space in Brooklyn where it will build six sound stages and support offices. The move is expected to bring in as much as USD100 million worth of investment into the city.
The Gerety Awards calls for entries with a compelling throwback film to Frances Gerety - the copywriter which the award takes it name from. A Diamond Is Forever starts with a top shot of Frances Gerety writing at a table, taking the viewer through her train of thought while trying to come up with a tagline for a DeBeers diamonds campaign. Pondering over the fact that ‘we all need to leave a mark on the world’, she eventually comes up with the slogan that resulted in her famous line: ‘A diamond is forever’.
With an estimated USD99 million qualifying expenditure, the fourth season of Showtime’s Penny Dreadful has been approved for USD24.7 million in tax credits.
Netflix’s hit reality show Queer Eye relocated to film its third season in Kansas City, Missouri after basing its first two seasons in Atlanta, Georgia.
The formal partnership between the BBC and Screen Scotland will ensure production in Scotland of programming intended for British and international audiences. To back up the deal, the BBC has committed to spending at least 8% of its total network television budget in Scotland.
The British-Italian co-production between Italy’s Lux Vide and London’s Big Light have now filmed three series in Tuscany, Italy. Medici's Location Manager Daniele Di Biasi and Toscana Film Commission’s Raffaella Conti discuss how local Italian talent has created authenticity for the period drama.