School’s Out: 13 Reasons Why Concludes Its Fourth and Final Season
by Shannon A. Mullen
When location scouts started knocking on doors in the San Franci...
Seven years ago, LM Geoffrey Smither/LMGI got a phone call from producer Colin Brunton asking if he would be available to work on a new series with Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara?...
by Nancy Mills
Douglas Dresser/LMGI with his wife Donya.
When SLM Douglas Dresser/LMGI signed on to help make a new version of Little Women, it took him ...
For Quentin Tarantino’s very personal film, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, opening later this month, Hollywood 2018 was transformed into Hollywood 1969...
Making the Impossible Possible
by Shaun O’Banion
Shawn Ryan (The Shield) had been a fan of the original series and approached Moritz about developing a new ...
Filming at Historic Properties: Frank Gehry, noted architect, sums it up best, “Architecture should speak of its time and its place, but yearn for timelessness.”...
Flying Down to Whitehall:
Historic Locations Bring British Stories to Life
by Jim Collette
“Votes for women!” The cry emanated from the Heavens, and a sudde...
Finding 30 locations for Roma, which received 10 Oscar nominations and won three Oscars, was an enormous challenge for Horacio Rodriguez, LMGI and his location team. ...
Everybody loves Jack Ryan. Since Tom Clancy introduced his CIA analyst-turned-action hero in his 1984 thriller The Hunt for Red October, film audiences have poured into theaters to watch different incarnations of Ryan. ...
It takes a village to pull off getting a rocket to the moon, even a fake one. Based on the book of the same title by James R. Hansen, First Man is the story of Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon....
by Nancy Mills
Just how frustrating is it to know that some locations you want are just sitting there waiting to be filmed, but budget considerations prevent y...
Gotham’s Supervising Location Manager Keith Adams and writer Shaun O’ Banion give us a closer look behind the scenes of the past four seasons of Fox’s popular n...
Back in 2015, when no one had ever heard of a Netflix series called Stranger Things, location manager Tony Holley, LMGI and his team could work wherever they wanted without hassle....
Duncan Jones Locates a Superhero Universe Down Under
by Nancy Mills
THOR: RAGNAROK posed many challenges for location manager Duncan Jones, but the biggest wa...
When Emma Pill was offered the job as supervising location manager on Blade Runner 2049, her first thought was not “Blade Runner is a classic film. How can I possibly live up to its memory?”...
It’s Saturday afternoon in the City of Angels, and while I wait for location managers John Panzarella and Leslie Thorson at the corner of Santa Monica and La Brea, decent citizens run their weekend errands....