Behind the scenes

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Eight years in the making. An action-musical set during the American Revolution. Built almost entirely on a Georgian estate in County Kildare. Drummer Boy – the new Angel Studios historical drama from four-time Grammy-winning Christian music group For King and Country – opens on November 6, 2026.

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Wayne, New Jersey did not expect to wake up in 1985. But in October, 2026, a production crew transformed part of the Preakness Shopping Center into a period Miami streetscape – retro storefronts, box trucks full of props and towering palm trees in the carpark. Filming for Miami Vice '85 – Joseph Kosinski's IMAX reboot starring Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler – has started.

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This is a genuine first. K-Pop: The Debut is the first major American studio film to be shot (almost) entirely in South Korea. Paramount Pictures and HYBE America brought their joint production to Seoul and the surrounding region – and the cameras stayed there for the duration of filming.

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Season 1 filmed in Romania. Season 2 moved to Ireland. Season 3 stayed in Ireland – and then sent Wednesday Addams to Paris. Production officially began in February 2026 near Dublin and wrapped on September 30, 2026. Season 3 is currently in post-production, with a 2027 Netflix premiere the most realistic expectation.

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Emily Henry’s Beach Read is set in a fictional Lake Michigan beach community – “an amalgam of my favorite western Michigan beach towns,” Henry has said, with Saugatuck, Holland and Grand Haven all folded into one. The film was shot across Ontario. The production filmed under the working title Happily Ever After. Filming wrapped on July 30, 2026. 

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Will Smith was spotted on set in New South Wales, Australia, on August 26, 2026. Amazon MGM Studios posted a video of the moment. Will Smith is back. And his comeback vehicle is a prison thriller filmed in the suburbs of Sydney and a decommissioned power station on Lake Macquarie. Filming is taking place in New South Wales between August and November 2026.

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Jake Kasdan directed Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle in 2017. Then The Next Level in 2019. Now he has written and directed Jumanji: Open World – the final instalment in the franchise. Dwayne Johnson said it himself: this is the last one. And they wrapped it up where it all began ten years ago with Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.

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A Catholic school dance troupe. Prophetic visions. Townwide hysteria. Netflix’s The Body wrapped in mid-February 2026 in Ontario, Canada, with producers confirming: “the body season 1 officially wrapped after 89 days of filming. Filming took place in and around Toronto and Dundas.

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The suitcase tags say it all. AGP to LGW. Málaga to Gatwick. Anya Taylor-Joy is back in London – and Grace Bernard has been busy in Marbella. The first set photos from How to Kill Your Family landed a few days ago, showing Taylor-Joy in character on a leafy residential London street, wheeling a suitcase up to a black Georgian front door. Production is officially underway.

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Karl Alberg moved to the Sunshine Coast for a quieter life. That was the plan. The Pacific Northwest coastal town turned out to have more murders per capita than Minneapolis – the big city he fled. Murder in a Small Town has now been renewed for a third season, and the cameras keep returning to the same stretch of British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast.

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The script was finished on June 27, 2025. Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson posted the blurred title page on Instagram with the caption “Partners in Crime (Fighters).” Principal photography began on June 12, 2026. Filming took primarily place on soundstages at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, with extensive location shooting across England and Scotland.

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Season 1 filmed across California. Season 2 went to different continents. The production’s wrap post said it all: “From South Africa to North America to Morocco, the cast and crew pushed the limits to bring book 2, True Believer, to life.” The Terminal List season 2 premieres on Prime Video on October 21, 2026 – four years after the first season, seven months of filming under the working title Kestrel.