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A courtyard at County Hall features green grass, white benches, a central stone fountain, and red-brick buildings with arched walkways under a cloudy sky. The wet ground suggests it recently rained.

Now available until October – County Hall Location

February 13, 2026 | Our locations

This popular Campus-style vacant multi-use site has a diverse range of architectural styles all in one place 📍 Some pencils in Summer but availability now extended until October. 📍Ideal double for a police station, university, a hospital, a government building, a wedding venue, a school, or a residential block or mansion 📍A mix of 1930s and 1970s office

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A collage of four scenes: a globe in a busy mall, people in red shirts at the sleek Antandec offices, a woman striking a pose by an Apple TV+ sign, and a tantalizing poster for Black Doves on Netflix featuring a man and woman standing by a car.

Empty offices are not sexy

January 15, 2025 | Locations in Action

Sad, dim shadows of the former hub of activity they used to be. Maybe they are waiting for planning permission, maybe the whole building is due to be demolished, maybe tenants have moved out, maybe the lease hasn’t expired. But we love them! They are hugely useful for filming and short-term production offices. We seek

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A sign with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and 2024 A.D. looms above. Below, glowing text announces Its Showtime! September 6 against a dark backdrop. The mystical aura captures the essence of Beetlejuice 2, enveloped in an enchanting green and blue glow.

Beetlejuice 2

August 6, 2024 | Locations in Action

We’re really excited for Beetlejuice 2 to hit the cinemas on 6th September! Really amazing to have provided a location for filming and be on location with wonderful cast and crew. Watch Beetlejuice 2 Trailer Our Queen Anne School Film Location is huge country house set in almost 100 acres of rolling Hertfordshire countryside, with later

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A split image: left reveals a blue hallway with checkered floors; center captures a multi-story brick building, ideal as a film location; right shows a beige corridor with doors and a red object at the end. Logo and text area4 at the bottom.

Film locations that double for something else

May 23, 2024 | What we do

Double Vision Part of the responsibility of a good location agency is to respond to a production brief not just with exact examples of what they’ve asked for, but also variations that could be made to ‘double’ for the film location required. We often get asked for hospitals, schools, prisons, courtrooms, police stations and other

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Four-panel collage of city buildings: Top left shows a modern urban street ideal for filming locations, with tall buildings. Top right features a historic brick building with a gabled roof. Bottom left depicts a waterway alongside industrial brick structures. Bottom right reveals a sleek glass edifice.

A Guide to Assessing Landlords for Filming Locations

March 27, 2024 | What we do

If Area4 are to promote property to the film industry we need to know that the landlord’s property is actually useable and the landlord is keen to work with us. Making sure we don’t waste time and effort with property owners who aren’t really engaged with what we do is key for Area4. Here’s how

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