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It’s been a while since Tacoma has been used as a location for a major feature film. In the late 1980s and throughout the ’90s, pictures such as “Three Fugitives,” “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,” “I Love You To Death” and “10 Things I Hate About You” were all shot in the city. …

“Our company is based in Iowa because of the exceptional economic development program that the State of Iowa Film Commission has enacted to encourage TV and Film Production,” Weiner said in an electronic message. “We might not have considered Iowa for the location if it were not for this program, but Iowa has turned out to be a Field of Dreams.”

…said they recently hosted a meeting where location managers, scouts and film-unit managers agreed on the need to set up a location guild.

“I’m talking about the way that the Bay Area plays such a huge role in the film and almost becomes a personality,” he says. “The hills of San Francisco: The drama goes up and down and around those hills. Basically, it’s about trying to find out what’s on the other side of that hill, what’s hiding there, both literally and psychologically.”

Visitors may use the fun, easy to follow map tour to enjoy Mystic Pizza film locations in New London, Mystic, Stonington, Stonington Borough and Pawcatuck. …

“Men Who Stare at Goats” will star George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor and Kevin Spacey. It’s currently in production in Puerto Rico and will begin filming in mid-November in New Mexico. Locations include Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Roswell and Zia Pueblo.

Bruce has crammed a remarkable amount into less than four decades: a Royal Marine for five years, an expedition leader, a location manager for pop videos and, for the past six years, TV presenter specialising in the raw edges of the world, with Tribe. This week he adds two more strings to his bow with his book, Amazon, and a CD of music commissioned to benefit the charity Survival International. …

“The English Major” by Jim Harrison, (Grove Press, 255 pages, $24).

…Cliff takes a circuitous route to San Francisco to visit his gay son, a successful location scout in the film industry.

Film Location Switzerland director Andre Brice told AFP that he did not have an exact count of Indian films made here, but added that at the peak, there were as many as 30 productions here a year.

Watch the video to see some of the exact locations. It's the legacy of these works that the Lone Pine Film Festival (Oct 10-12) hopes to preserve. …

"My bill says, let's put a cap on it at $100 million, so the Film Office can award these up to a certain point in a calendar year, then they have to stop. …

"It is hugely encouraging that this is, in part, an initiative of the Louisiana Film Office and the Lt. Governor's Office in Baton Rouge, " Duffey said. …

There are so many locations in this film. Seventeen years I’ve been looking for these locations. It’s a location scout’s nightmare – or perhaps their dream. …

The 13-year-old St. Louis Park actress spent two days in late September acting out her small role in the film set in her hometown but shot in locations throughout the Twin Cities. Piper worked at a set at the former school in Bloomington for her small role in a scene at a Hebrew school for “A Serious Man” directed by fellow St. Louis Park natives Joel and Ethan Coen.

Opinions were split about the new status of Les Bousquets as a film location. Hymed, 24, whose family is from Mauritius, said: "I'm for it. …

Brian Meganck is a big movie fan. Not of watching them, necessarily. Of making them. In Michigan. A few years ago, as the number of commercials shooting in Michigan began fading, Meganck had to move his business Kind Services, which provides drinks …

The importance of Indian films has even led the country's film commission, Film Location Switzerland to offer a special scouting package including food, …

Emiley Vollmer, the CEO of Evo Media, is a newly appointed board member of the Cape Film Commission (South Africa). The Commission's decision gives recognition to the …

After Bergen County Film Commission (BCFC) members stated at a press conference on Sept. 29 that they wanted a feasibility study conducted on the viability …

“Boys are born but men are made” is the subtitle of “Equinox,” a film that’s an Oakland product. That makes the two-hour film by Baayan Bakari appropriate as the opening feature for the Oakland International Film Festival that begins Thursday and runs until Oct. 16.

… religious send-up "Dogma" in Western Pennsylvania in 1998, will also host a Q&A session following the film. Proceeds benefit the Pittsburgh Film Office.

An Australian-born cinematographer who has been involved in the making of 30 films is looking to set up a film and TV production studio in Hudson County.

The Korean city of Busan and Japanese city Sapporo have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on film production, distribution and training programmes within the film industry in each city.

Hollywood’s dominance of global cinema screens came in for plenty of bashing Saturday at the first running of the Asia Film Policy Forum. But the confab in Pusan was also the setting for a well-attended and pragmatic seminar on how to …

Oct 4, 2008 | … expert Bill Bowling's advice Saturday to a gathering of film commission representatives and government officials from across the Asia-Pacific region. …