Hot Spots: How Turin & Italy’s Piedmont Region Is Revving Up To Become A Key Destination For Local & International Productions
deadline.comWith many European countries stepping up their offerings to lure in foreign projects, the last few years Italy’s Piedmont region has been quietly becoming an attractive option for Hollywood and international productions to set up camp.
In a few weeks, Universal will release the tenth instalment of the Fast and Furious franchise, Fast X, of which 10 days was shot on the streets and city center of Turin, the region’s capital city, and around 150 of its 500-strong crew were locals.
Michael Mann’s long-gestating Ferrari also was hosted by the Piedmont region last year. Pre-pandemic, Matthew Vaughn’s The King’s Man also shot in Turin, using the city’s Royal Palace, streets along the city’s River Po and its Castle of Racconigi to shoot his Sarajevo-set project.
It was a big commitment from major big-budget Hollywood film, putting the region’s locations on the map in a major way for the first time since Michael Caine’s caper The Italian Job in 1969.
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