ITV have yet to reveal where in the UK the series will shoot, but have said it will take place at a ruined castle. According to UK press reports Gwrych Castle will host filming where work on a campsite has begun. As usual the celebrities will undergo trials and challenges to win food and treats […]
Australia’s Screen Production Location Incentive grant has been given an additional AUS400 million funding. Having had relative success in managing Covid-19 the boost is hoped to help attract a longer term pipeline of major screen productions in Australia.
Airing on Apple+, the Paramount TV and Anonymous Content production is based on the semi-autobiographical novel from Gregory David Roberts. Shantaram depicts Roberts’ life after escaping from a maximum security prison in Mebourne in 1980, and fleeing to India.
There would be few Location Managers who aren’t used to working with big names, and that is true even here in the remote Australian outback. Another quirk of living here is that you have to not just Location Manage and Fix but even shoot, both on the ground and in the air.
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.
Baz Luhrmann is producing and directing the Warner Bros. film that will explore the life and music of Elvis Presley. Tom Hanks is set to play Colonel Tom Parker, Presley’s manager but the part of Elvis is yet to be cast.
Screen Queensland will operate the new AUD12 million studio which features two soundstages, warehouses and production offices.
The annual Hollywood Location Scouts Panel hosted by the Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) was held on the 20th July 2018 during Comic-Con San Diego. Location managers from the UK, Canada, Australia and the US swapped memorable anecdotes, addressed environmental concerns and the effects of new technologies on location scouting.
The first live-action adaptation of the “Dora the Explorer” franchise has begun principal photography in Australia’s Gold Coast. Paramount’s youth division Paramount Players has entered a co-production and financing deal with Walden Media. The feature film has received funding from Queensland Screen having committed to shooting solely in the North-Eastern state.
The Australian state of Queensland has failed to secure a one-off deal with the national Government to subsidise the cost of hosting a live-action Dora the Explorer feature film.