Today our National Park Service turns 100. To celebrate this monumental milestone, the NPS offers free admission to all 412 of our nation's national parks from today, August 25 through August 28. There will be plenty of park activities, such as astronomy night hikes and guided tours, to celebrate the centennial.
Wavehaus is a unique home located in Northport, New York, featuring a wall of curving fiberglass facing the Long Island Sound and staircases resembling the inside of a giant nautilus.
If your production needs an authentic log cabin setting, the Cabin in the Woods is a perfect candidate. Located in Pine Mountain Club, California, this real log cabin is only 90 minutes North of Los Angeles.
Coyote Creek Angus Ranch is a beautiful mountain working ranch in Hayden, Colorado, complete with black Angus cattle, horses, and border collies. The property includes a pond, a stream, hay meadows, pastures, two barns, two houses - one is a 1925 Sears & Robuck Kit House, a sheep wagon, a horse sled, a chute, corrals, tractors, and more.
The Log House Hideaway is a secluded property that includes a historic log cabin fully furnished with antiques and a log barn, both privately situated in the middle of 132 acres of open fields, forests, wetlands, and pond.
Jacobs House is a stunning 5,553-sf English Tudor home on nearly 2 acres in the historic town of Moorestown, New Jersey. Available as a film location, Jacobs House features exquisite details, custom brick and stone exterior, hardwood floors on first level, 10-foot ceilings, oversized custom millwork.
All these movies all have one thing in common: Shutter Island, The Light At The Edge of The World, The Fog, A Very Long Engagement, Breaking The Waves, Final Analysis, Forever Young, Snow Falling On Cedars, Half Light, and Jaws. Can you guess what it is? They were all set and/or filmed in a lighthouse.
Finding a real lighthouse that allows filming is no easy task. Fortunately for filmmakers, Connecticut has an atmospheric and historic lighthouse to offer as a film location. Peck Ledge Lighthouse, also known as Cockenoe Lighthouse, is now available for film and television productions. It's a 'spark-plug' style lighthouse off the coast of Westport, Connecticut, along the northeast end of the Norwalk Islands in Long Island Sound.
Is your production scouting for a beautiful mid-century home to film in? This newly-built, stunning Modern Home Estate in Sherman Oaks, California, may be the perfect match. It exudes the feel of contemporary, warm, and laid-back California living.
The New Mexico Film Office recently created a "Sizzle Reel" showcasing over a dozen Hollywood's blockbusters and television shows that were filmed in the state. A few of the productions featured are Sicario, The Avengers, The Lone Ranger, No Country for Old Men, and Breaking Bad.
If your production is looking for a cool, beachy filming location, Surf Central is a perfect candidate. A two-family, three-story beach house built in 2009 in Rockaway Beach, New York, Surf Central's roof-top terrace offers panoramic views of the ocean and the beach.
Earlier this week, the New Mexico Film Office announced that a new project temporarily titled "Fox Louisiana Production" will be filming this month through August in Albuquerque, Abiquiu and Chama, New Mexico. Based on the director and producers named in the production, the film office was most likely talking about Hugh Jackman's next Wolverineinstallment.
Built in the late 19th century when West Oakland was the transcontinental railroad terminus, this Historic Italianate Home in the San Francisco Bay Area has retained all of its original craftsman features. Period details include extensive wainscoting, generous windows, and repurposed vintage furnishings. Located just ten minutes from downtown San Francisco in the eclectic Lower Bottoms neighborhood, this bay area home is an ideal film set with limitless options.
A premiere lifestyle shop in San Diego, SD Wheel Works is now an available filming location. With 5,700-sf of usable indoor space divided into a modern retail space, a warehouse with half pipe & car collection, and a custom machine shop, SD Wheel Works is a film-ready set.
The moody trailer for American Pastoral, Ewan McGregor's directorial debut, is out and accompanied by Tears for Fears' Mad World, hauntingly performed by Jasmine Thompson.
If you were one of the lucky ones to have caught AMC's The American West when it premiered this past Saturday, you might have noticed the authentic "wild west" settings featured in the mini-series. Filmed in West Virginia in 2015, The American West is an eight-part mini-series produced by Robert Redford and Laura Michalchyshyn (through their company Sundance Productions) and Stephen David (through his company Stephen David Entertainment).
Housed in a large industrial space in the heart of Williamsburg, New York, Brooklyn Art Library's walls are lined with white shelves filled with thousands of sketchbooks created around the world. This distinctive aesthetic paired with an open floor plan and multiple storage areas make the Library a unique setting for film productions and photo shoots.
TheLAB is a custom tailored 12,000-sf production space in Hawthorn, California, with multiple rooms, each with different themes that will accommodate any type of production.
Available for shoots, private events, and creative functions, theLAB's main stage has 14,000-watt JBL Sound System complete with Programmable Wireless Mixing Console, DMX Console for moving geads and wireless lighting. There is also an hourglass backdrop and Trussing Rouge Lounge for production use.
Laramore Estate is an all-brick estate home on 14 acres of private land in Newnan, Georgia. The two-story house features double front porches with multiple french doors leading to every porch.
This beautiful mint condition mid-century home is located on the north course of Indian Canyon Golf Estate in Palm Springs, California. Being on the golf course allows plenty of open space around the property. There is a casita facing the pool with its own AC, entrance, and full bathroom.
Texas is well-known for its rich film heritage. The Lone Star State has hosted many feature films and television series within the past century. To celebrate the state's filmmaking legacy, the Texas Film Commission recently launches "a curated series of self-guided Texas Film Trails" featuring Texas locations used in iconic films.
To kick-off the series is the film trail of possibly the most quintessential Texas filmmaker of all time (and one of my personal favorites) Richard Linklater. The Texas Film Commission proudly announced its inaugural trail in honor of the director earlier this month.
