Peter Jackson’s first Hobbit movie helped boost film tourism to New Zealand in the first quarter of 2013. There was a 23% increase in the number of Americans visiting the country and about one in ten US visitors said the film affected their travel decisions.
The Location Guide is preparing for its Cannes Lions Soiree fringe event on the Majestic Pier on 19 June. Organised with our Soiree partners, the event will be a great opportunity to network with people from throughout the international advertising community.
The Sevilla Film Office has joined The Location Guide as a partner for our Soiree at the Cannes Lions Festival. Set up in 2003, the Sevilla Film Office is run through Seville City Council’s External Promotion Office (APPES) in the Spanish city.
HLA recreated a sense of rural Greek nostalgia filming on location in the country’s Peloponnese region for Total Greek Yoghurt. Nineteen Twenty Thirteen shows a boy enjoying the yoghurt snack seemingly in the 1920s, before a smart phone chat gives away the modern setting.
A new TV adaptation of Sleepy Hollow, inspired by the classic Washington Irving short story, will film a full series on location in North Carolina. Tim Burton adapted the story as a 1999 feature starring Johnny Depp, with Christopher Walken as the Headless Horseman.
Filmmaker JJ Abrams has revealed he would have preferred to film the new Star Wars movie on location in California, rather than in the UK. Speaking at the Produced By Conference in Los Angeles, Abrams spoke of the inconvenience of moving his family to the UK for the shoot.
Fresco Film has joined The Location Guide as a partner for our Soiree at the Cannes Lions Festival. The company was first set up in 1972 and became Fresco Film in 2006, working mainly on commercials and features in Spain and Portugal from offices in Barcelona, Malaga and Lisbon.
A senator in Pennsylvania has pledged to introduce legislation to remove the annual cap on the US state’s location filming incentive programme. The move could help Pennsylvania attract more features on the scale of Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises.
Elements Production Services has joined The Location Guide as a partner for our Soiree at the Cannes Lions Festival. The production service company was set up in 1999 in New Delhi and specialises in commercials, photo shoots and TV shows.
Gareth Edwards’ new feature version of Godzilla will film monster chaos on location in Hawaii in the next few weeks. The movie has been based in Vancouver but will shoot scenes on the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Kauai.