Last fall for ABC’s In An Instant: Grizzly Bear Attack episode, Minnesota’s Silver Bay Marina became Glacier National Park, the setting of the true story about a father and daughter who came face to face with a grizzly bear during a celebratory hike.
Earlier this week, the New Mexico Film Office announced in a press release that the fourth season of Longmire will be filming in New Mexico. Longmire’s first three seasons were aired on A&E, and its fourth season has been renewed by Netflix on November 19, 2014. Produced by Warner Horizon Television and the Shephard/Robin Company, the series is based on the Longmire mystery novels by Craig Johnson.
Joining a long list of movies such as Unbreakable, The Italian Job, National Treasure, Unstoppable, The Dark Knight Rises, Jack Reacher, and Silver Linings Playbook is Kevin Smith’s Clerks III, soon to set up production in Philadelphia in a few months. Through the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, Clerks III has already issued a crew call for the production. If all goes according to plan, Clerks III will be shooting in Philly for five weeks beginning in early June.
The Location Managers Guild of America (LMGA) held their second annual LMGA Awards last Saturday, March 7, 2015, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. The prestigious LMGA Awards honor the outstanding and creative contributions of location professionals in feature films, television and commercials. This year’s winners didn’t surprise us because their work speak volume for their excellence.
Having heard so many good things about Nightcrawler, I finally had a chance to watch the neo-noir thriller recently. With a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Nightcrawler delivers a riveting, intense, and unforgettable performance by Jake Gyllenhaal. Top-notch acting from Gyllenhaal aside, the movie also features prominently another main character … the City of Los Angeles. Nightcrawler is the first movie since Drive to take us on a memorable rollercoaster ride around Los Angeles.
"Rather than building that from scratch—because we couldn’t afford that—and rather than finding a hotel, because that didn’t exist, we had to kind of go into the middle and the middle ground happened to be this incredible Art Nouveau defunct department store in this tiny little town called Gorlitz in eastern Germany. The shell of what you see in the movie was there—it was a lot of linoleum that got turned into those carpets. We built in the lobby, and the coat check, and the concierge area—all that stuff." ~ Adam Stockhausen, Production Designer - The Grand Budapest Hotel
As announced in a press release launched earlier today, LocationsHub's Production-Ready 3D Gallery (PR3D) is now online featuring 3D models of selected locations available for filming. Using Matterport's latest 3D technology, PR3D models are 2D photo overlays blended with a 3D mesh creating an interactive, immersive 3D model for viewers.
Dallas (the television series), Prison Break, and The Tree of Life are among the many productions recently filmed in Dallas, Texas. This year, adding to the list are two additional television pilots soon to call Dallas home, FOX's Frankenstein and HBO's Mamma Dallas.
Being a film buff, the months between November and February is usually an exciting time for me - when the film awards season is in full swing. This year, two of my favorite films in 2014 have been nominated for awards and even took home the Golden Globe earlier in January: Boyhood for Best Drama, and The Grand Budapest Hotel for Best Comedy. As fond as I am of these two films, there's another movie that also much deserves to bask in the spotlight this year - and it does. Selma, a feature film chronicling the three months in 1965 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. campaigned for equal voting rights, is an outstanding, important film in its own right.
Being an avid reader and lover of books, I love watching movies that are set in libraries. The list is long and includes favorites such as The Breakfast Club, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Shawshank Redemption, All The President's Men, Harry Potter, Se7en, Ghostbusters and one of TV's newest series The Librarians. With so many wonderful scenes filmed and/or set in a library setting, it's our pleasure to share with you some of the most beautiful libraries available for filming. To kick off the library film location series, this week we're featuring The Central Library in Indianapolis, Indiana.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that 2014 has been a busy time for Mississippi’s film industry. With 14 feature films shot in the state this past year, Mississippi's film rebate program is clearly working to bring Hollywood to the southern state.
"It's a 25% rebate on what they spend in Mississippi, and on the payroll for non-resident cast and crew," director of the Mississippi Film Office Ward Emling explained the state's film incentive packages. "Then it's a 30% rebate on resident cast and crew in Mississippi."
With their latest film Catching Fire gracing theater screens everywhere in the world this week, Liam Hemsworth and Woody Harrelson just wrapped up shooting the Western film By Way of Helena (directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith) in Greenwood, Mississippi.
Known as the hotel that inspired Stephen King to write The Shining, the Stanley Hotel hosted both the novelist and his wife Tabitha for one night in October 1974. But one night in the mountain resort of Estes Park was all it took. Rumors are the Kings were the only guests at the Stanley Hotel that night - one of the last nights before the 155-room hotel shut down entirely for the winter. They stayed in Room 217. The next morning, the prolific, world-famous writer came up with ideas for one of his most famous books of all time.
Once in a while comes along a movie in which the setting is so captivating it becomes a character in its own right. For me, this list includes movies such as Howard’s End, The Holiday, You’ve Got Mail, Something’s Gotta Give, Baby Boom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and ... here’s the odd one that stands out from the list … Only Lovers Left Alive, cleverly written and stylishly directed by Jim Jarmusch.
Among a company of beautiful movie houses and settings, the 135-year-old mansion in Only Lovers Left Alive reigns in a league of its own. Clearly once a great beauty, the house Jarmusch features in the movie is more like an abandoned ruin than the elegant Gilded Age property it used to be. The mansion stars as the cluttered abode of Adam, a centuries-old, moody rock-star vampire who's finding himself bored and annoyed by the human race (whom he calls "zombies"). Located in the crumbling yet distinctive Brush Park neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, Adam’s house in real life is a 6,200-square-foot Queen Anne house with the address of 82 Alfred Street, formerly known as the Whitney Mansion.
Nestled midway between Boston and New York City and on the shores of both the Thames River and the Long Island Sound, the quaint, historic waterfront City of New London is no stranger to Hollywood. It has been the film location for many movies in the past, including Amistad, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Indian Jones, Mona Lisa Smiles, Sleepers, The Family Stone, The Horse Whisperer, The Hunt for Red October, Yours, Mine and Ours, and War of the Worlds.
To add to the impressive resume, one of the most recent independent productions to film in New London is A. D. Calvo’s The Missing Girl. Having directed four feature films (mostly of the horror genre) and numerous shorts, the Argentina-born director is treading new ground with The Missing Girl, a character-driven drama about a comic book shop owner in New London, who tries to connect with a young woman working in his shop. When she leaves town for a job interview, Mort (the shop owner) jumps to the conclusion that she’s in danger.
At Comic-Con 2014 earlier this year, Quentin Tarantino finally confirmed that he will indeed turn his famous script The Hateful Eight into a movie. Set in the early 1870's post-Civil War Wyoming, The Hateful Eight tells the story of a group of bounty hunters trying to find shelter during a blizzard.
Since his letting the cat out of the bag, the director has been actively searching for the perfect film location for his screenplay. After much due diligence on various proposed locations, Tarantino decided to film The Hateful Eight entirely in Telluride, Colorado.
Being a huge fan of Wes Anderson, I was one of the first in line to watch The Grand Budapest Hotel when it was released last October. For about a hundred minutes, I was lost in the charming, nostalgic, complicated world of M. Gustave H., the fastidious concierge at the Grand Budapest Hotel in a spa town of the Republic of Zubrowka. M. Gustave’s world not only mirrors the troubled history of 20th Century Eastern Europe, it also subtly echoes the luminous settings of La Belle Epoque.
Even though it’s not yet Halloween, suspense and horror movie lovers still get a treat at the theaters this week when As Above, So Below opened nationwide last Friday, August 29. The story centers around a team of explorers who ventures into the infamous Catacombs lying beneath the streets of Paris hoping to uncover the dark secret of the city of the dead.
Gulfport, Mississippi is in the spotlight this summer as Hollywood crews are in the area filming the upcoming disaster movie Impact Earth, directed by Rex Piano and starring Tom Berenger. Filming began last week at the convenience store Country Kwik Stop in South Mississippi. Other filming locations for Impact Earth include Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College's Jefferson Davis campus, Mississippi Gulf Coast Studios, Tradition Parkway, St. Patrick's High School, and Pass Christian.
Cradled between the Pacific Ocean and Oregon’s coastal mountain ranges is the City of Cannon Beach, one of Oregon’s best-kept secrets. Populated with artists, art galleries and restaurants, Cannon Beach is a quiet, beautiful town by-the-sea. It's famous for its rugged natural beauty - such as forested headlands, magnificent monoliths, miles of pristine beaches - and its film locations. Cannon Beach is where the uber-famous Twilight (2008) and two of my personal favorite films were shot, The Goonies (1985) and Point Break (1991).
The New Mexico Film Office announced yesterday that the new feature film Bare will begin shooting in Albuquerque and Moriarty, New Mexico at the end of this month through mid-August.
To be directed by Natalia Leite, the Bare production will employ at least thirty five (35) New Mexico crew members and fifteen (15) local actors.
