Behind the scenes

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The Oscar-winning director of Drive My Car filmed his new feature film inside a real Parisian nursing home – and the production deliberately kept the facility’s name and address private to protect its residents. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden was shot on location across the suburbs of Paris and in Kyoto, Japan.

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George Clooney walked into Baron’s Drug Store in Westfield, New Jersey, on October 20, 2026. The pharmacy has been there since 1936. Clooney was sporting a white beard, waving to the locals who gathered across the street. Annette Bening walked in after him. The drugstore closed for the day. Hollywood had arrived in a small New Jersey town.

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She is a no-nonsense bodyguard. He is a charming action star being stalked. He takes her home to his family’s Montana ranch for the holidays and tells everyone she is his girlfriend. How would that end? Filming also took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Pioneertown, California.

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“Usually we come up here for a week and make it look like we’re filming in San Francisco. Not this year. We are here all the time, all of the streets,” Ted Danson said in an Instagram video with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie. Then he invited his wife and co-star Mary Steenburgen on camera, where she revealed that she fell in love with Danson in San Francisco. 

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Twenty-five years. That is how long it has been since Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz last appeared together on screen as Rick and Evelyn O’Connell. On September 7, 2026, Fraser stood at the Deauville American Film Festival in France, accepted the festival’s Talent Award, and told the interviewer he had to be at work Monday morning. He headed straight to London. Where the cameras started rolling. Now the production is in Morocco.

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The Newman Scoring Stage. The Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. The Gold Room at the Biltmore. Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth! filmed across Los Angeles from October 2025 to January 2026. Three months. One city. The city where film scores are made.

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Hercule Poirot is coming back. Hercule – a six-part BBC One and BritBox drama from Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Productions – has commenced filming in Liverpool, with Edward Bluemel taking on one of the most scrutinised roles in British television as a young Poirot navigating his earliest cases. Read here where Hercule was filmed.

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Liam Neeson is behind the wheel again. The Mongoose opens in cinemas on October 30, 2026 – a cross-country car chase thriller filmed almost entirely in Victoria, Australia, standing in for the American South and Southwest. It is Neeson’s third film in Victoria in four years.

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Snow machines in a Regency market street. In September. Under a sunny Sussex sky. That is how Netflix’s new Pride and Prejudice got its winter scenes in Rye, and it is a good clue to how much effort went into building Jane Austen’s England. The story is set in Hertfordshire, but the production travelled well beyond it.

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A pig in the pram on Church Street, Whitby. Nicola Coughlan at a seaside café in Saltburn. Dame Imelda Staunton near a town hall dressed as a theatre with giant paper animal puppets. Netflix’s new live-action Roald Dahl adaptation has been darting around the North of England since mid-August 2026 – and it is exactly as gloriously strange as the source material suggests. Filming runs to mid-December 2026.

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A beachclub on the sand of Ameland. A striking harbour building in Harlingen. A working fishing harbour between two UNESCO nature reserves. Eb – the Dutch crime thriller that opened in cinemas on May 14, 2026 and is now in the Top 10 on Netflix – was filmed entirely in Frisian north.

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Season 1 pulled 20 million views in its first five weeks. Netflix renewed it in September 2025, weeks after the season finale aired. By November 17 – barely four months after season 1 premiered – cameras were already rolling on season 2. The Hunting Wives season 2 premieres on Netflix on November 26, 2026 – Thanksgiving Day. Eight episodes. Filmed in North Carolina.