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‘Star Trek: Beyond’ Shifts Production To Dubai Plus, actor Idris Elba teases his character’s mysterious role
“Star Trek: Beyond” has shifted production from a three-month shoot in Vancouver to the United Arab Emirates, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The cast and crew arrived in Dubia earlier this week for a 13-day shoot using locations around the city and at Dubai Studio City. “We came searching for the future and we found it,” said producer Jeffrey Chernov, noting the city’s forward-thinking architecture. “We’d drive around Dubai and look at things and we’d have to figure out how we can use those visual guides to tell our story,” he said. “I’d see a building and say, ‘We …

BRYANT L. GRIFFIN | Oct-3-2015 |

Star Trek Coming To Vancouver For First Time New movie set to begin filming June 1 in British Columbia
When was the last time a Star Trek film set up shop in Canada? Try never. In fact, when “Star Trek 3” starts filming in studios and locations around Vancouver, British Columbia, in June, it will be just the second time a Trek film has gone international, after “Star Trek: Into Darkness” did some filming in Iceland. It’s something that has Vancouver — a city used to high-profile films and television shows calling its streets home — abuzz. Paramount Pictures is taking advantage of tax credits that run at 16 percent on the federal level, to 33 percent at the provincial lev …

MICHAEL HINMAN | Feb-25-2015 |