New campaign designed to boost LA filming
FilmLA is aiming to encourage more productions to film in Los Angeles with the launch of a new advertising campaign called Film Works.
FilmLA is aiming to encourage more productions to film in Los Angeles with the launch of a new advertising campaign called Film Works.
[slideshow id=29]Ever wondered whether US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel could handle himself in a war zone with only a grenade launcher for company? No? Well, the makers of new video game Call of Duty Black Ops decided it would be fun to take him and a few others out to the desert in California to find out.
Upcoming science fiction thriller Battle: Los Angeles may be set on the West Coast but it involved extensive location shooting throughout Louisiana. The film tells the story of a platoon of US Marines defending Los Angeles against an alien invasion.
Los Angeles saw a 6.6% drop in feature film location work during the third quarter of 2010 compared to the same period last year, according to new figures from FilmLA.
American band MGMT has filmed a new music video on location at Dumont Dunes in California’s Mojave Desert. Congratulations shows the two founding band members trekking across the sand in the company of a strange animal coming to the end of its life.
A new sci-fi film called Super 8 begins shooting this week on location in Weirton, West Virginia, under the codename Wickham. The film is written and directed by JJ Abrams, with Steven Spielberg onboard as a Producer.
The feature script that won the best screenwriting award at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival in 2008 is to go into production in Crete in 2011. Romero, Julieta and the General was written by Nicholas Proferes.
Soft drink brand Coke Zero has shot a new commercial in and around Bangkok. The Date shows a man racing to meet a girl on time and being helped along the way by a rapid-response unit resembling a SWAT team.