RoadTown Enterprises was set up in the late 1980s in Los Angeles by Gail Smerigan and Nick Smerigan, and Jeremy Hariton joined in 2010. TLG talks to Nick and Jeremy about the company’s specialism in studio management and RoadTown’s facilities in Georgia and Mississippi.
[slideshow id=355]JJ Hook entered the production industry with a small job on drama Swept from the Sea in the late 90s. His career progressed to major action movies and in recent years he’s worked on Mission: Impossible III, Inception and Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise.
Sports Illustrated (SI) travelled around the world to shoot stills for the 50th anniversary of its high-profile Swimsuit Edition. Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean was among the more unusual locations and the publisher also became the first to organise an Antarctic photo shoot.
Llucià Homs is Film Commissioner and Director at the Barcelona-Catalunya Film Commission (BCFC) in north-east Spain. He is also Director of Cultural Industries at Barcelona City Council’s Cultural Institute. The film commission helps organise shoots around Barcelona and Catalunya.
A group of producers has visited Galway in western Ireland to scout regional filming locations at the invitation of the Galway Film Centre. The ten producers spent two days visiting the city and nearby locations like the picturesque Inagh Valley and the historic Kylemore Abbey.
Major expansion of the filming facilities at Universal Studios in Los Angeles could start soon as final approval has been granted by the city council. The NBCUniversal Evolution Plan is a USD1.6 billion proposal that includes building new sound stages and sets.
Gorgeous has altered time filming on location in Czech Republic for a new Guinness commercial. The Clock is part of the brand’s Made of More campaign and features a sentient clock-tower that decides to impact more on the world around it by slowing and reversing time.
A plan to launch a location filming incentive in the state of Maine in the north-eastern US is proving controversial. One local politician wants to offer a production rebate for feature films, but he’s battling suggestions that the economic benefits for the state will be hard to measure.
Filmmaker Greg Mclean his shooting the sequel to his 2005 backpacker horror Wolf Creek on location in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges. The story follows the grisly exploits of a fictional Outback killer and the first film fed off the lonely atmosphere of remote Australian highways.
Movie industry professionals in India want to boost film tourism in the country and encourage Bollywood to become more international. A single-platform event has been created that brings together Indian producers and directors with international tourism boards.