The creator of the Peaky Blinders drama series has announced plans to open a studio in Los Angeles in the US. Steven Knight has said he wants to bring Birmingham’s Digbeth Loc Studios to the States to highlight the work of film-makers from the Midlands. It comes as production is due to start for the […]
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Eastern Canada’s film and television industry is ready to roar back to life, fueled by the arrival of Amazon MGM Studios at Pinewood Toronto. In January 2024, the streaming giant secured a major deal, leasing five new soundstages and office space at the iconic studio, spanning 160,000 square feet. It’s a clear signal: The province […]
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The Bottle Yard Studios, located two-hours south of London, in Bristol, could be heading for significant changes as the city council prepares to discuss its future, including the possibility of a sale. Next week, Bristol City Council’s strategy committee will review options for the future of the Hengrove-based studio, which has become a leading production […]
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A film studio based on a former Royal Air Force (RAF) airfield has said it is proud to be used by the production team of Rings of Power after it left New Zealand. The second series of the Lord of the Rings prequel used Bovingdon Airfield Studios in Hertfordshire after Amazon Studios relocated to the UK […]
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Over the last five years, New Jersey has become a top destination for film, television and, most recently, reality program production. The state’s Film and Digital Media Tax Credit Program launched in late 2018 under the leadership of Gov. Phil Murphy after being indefinitely suspended in 2010. Initially, under Murphy’s tax credit initiative, the annual cap […]
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Australia’s screen industry agency Ausfilm says “production is booming” across the country, partly due to new tax incentives for local productions that were introduced two months ago. With eight major TV series and films either completed, in production or post-production this year, streamers and studios are taking advantage of the 30 per cent “location offset”, […]
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Slow Horses filming sees Watford take the limelight The mayor said his town had been put “on the map” as a filming destination after crews from the series Slow Horses were spotted in action. Scenes for the fourth series of the Apple TV thriller, starring Gary Oldman, were filmed in Watford last year. Production crews […]
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There’s a soft, afternoon glow suffusing an intimate scene between the plucky protagonist and her wood-chopping, flannel-shirted love interest’s mother on the Vancouver set of the Netflix Inc. show, Virgin River. A soapy drama centered on a nurse practitioner in a small, northern California town, Virgin River is the kind of show that reliably delivers […]
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This month, a strange sight appeared in Toronto’s north end: a massive compound containing what looked like a walled-off miniature town, complete with a line of identical houses. Though it looks like something out of a dystopia, it’s actually the set for Beast Games, an upcoming reality TV show created by YouTuber MrBeast in partnership with […]
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A London-based virtual production studio known for its work on blockbuster films and such as Whitney Houston biopic ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ has received a “multi-million dollar” investment as it expands both at home and abroad. Dimension, which has also helped produce upcoming films including Peacock’s ‘Those About to Die’ and Song Pictures’s ‘Here’, […]
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