The DC Office of Motion Picture and Television Development ("MPTD") announces today the launching of its new state-of-the-art iPhone app, DC Reel-Crew. Developed by Reel-Scout, Inc., DC Reel-Crew gives users immediate access to the District's film locations, support services, and crew information wherever they go.

After just one season, House of Cards was already nominated for nine Emmys. Even though the show is based and set in Washington, DC, only a few setting shots were filmed in DC. The rest of the production was filmed on a soundstage in Harford County as well as at locations in and around Baltimore City and surrounding counties.

Earlier this week, New Mexico Film Office Director Nick Maniatis announced that NBC's new TV series The Night Shift will begin filming in Albuquerque at the end of August.

Another fun summer movie comes to the big screen today nationwide. The much-anticipated comedy We're The Millers, starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts and Will Poulter, was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, last summer.

Louisiana, perennially a popular filming location, stays busy for the rest of the year as it hosts three major featured film shoots in the state: the indie film Black and White (starring Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer), the Marvel-based Fox film The Fantastic Four, and Pirates of the Caribbean 5.

ProduceIowa has selected Reel-Scout as its location, crew, and project management solution. In doing so, ProduceIowa becomes the 42nd state film office to move to the Reel-Scout™ platform.

What do The Big Wedding, Everybody's Fine, Revolutionary Road, The Town, All Good Things, Hope Springs, Righteous Kill, and We Need to Talk About Kevin all have in common? They're among many of the movies filmed in Connecticut in recent years.

It looks like Missouri's own Cape Girardeau has a good chance of standing in for the fictional town of North Carthage, Missouri, as the setting of Gone Girl. Last week, a location scout for 20th Century Fox reached out to homeowners in Cape Girardeau about using their homes in the movie.

Dig Two Graves, a Gothic mystery thriller, is back in Southern Illinois to film its final scenes. Directed by Hunter Adams and based on the script he co-wrote with Jeremy Phillips, Dig Two Graves' cast includes Ted Levine (The Bridge, Shutter Island), Kara Zediker (Contagion), Danny Goldring (The Dark Knight), and newcomer Samantha Isler.

After making the mega-successful summer blockbuster hit The Heat, Melissa McCarthy (the beloved Sookie St. James from Gilmore Girls and the hilarious Megan from Bridesmaids) came to Niagara Falls last month to film her next movie, a road comedy called Tammy.

If you haven't heard of Horn Lake yet (located in northern Mississippi, yet a mere five-minute drive from its metropolitan neighbor Memphis), you will soon. The burgeoning city is now the film location of HBO/Cinemax's new series Quarry. 

Over the years, Utah's Moab and Monument Valley area has hosted its impressive share of movies, from John Ford's classics such as Stagecoach (1939), to more current films within the last few decades including Thelma and Louise (1990), City Slickers II (1992), Mission Impossible II and Vertical Limit (both in 1999), and 127 Hours (2010).

When MUD competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, the audience warmly received the film almost instantly. Then when the movie had its limited release earlier this year on April 26, 2013, the critics and movie-goers also embraced the Southern coming-of-age film with open arms and heart.

The Emmy Award-winning Showtime series Homeland set up camp in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, last month to film a few scenes for its much-anticipated third season. Film locations in Raleigh included the Supreme Court building and the Historic North Carolina State Capitol building and grounds.

The Charlotte Harbor Florida Film Office has selected Reel-Scout as its location and project management solution. In doing so, the Charlotte Harbor Florida Film Office becomes the 15th Florida film office to move to the Reel-Scout™ platform.

The California Film Commission announced in a press release last month that it has selected 31 productions to receive this year's California Film and Television Tax Credit. Among the lucky winners are feature films Purge 2 and The Wash, and popular television series Switched At Birth, Entourage, Pretty Little Liars, Bunheads, and Rizzoli & Isles.

Maine residents, did you know your house or property can be a star in the next big movie filmed in Maine? The process is now simple. Visit www.filminmaine.com, click on Locations, and upload photos of your property to the new Location Submission Engine (LSE) hosted by the Maine Film Office (powered by Reel-Scout). Once approved, your location will be available online immediately for the film industry professionals to research in their next film location scouting.

Movie lovers, if you happen to be in Michigan, you can now add film location scouting to your list of fun activities to do. As part of the state's Pure Michigan campaign, the Michigan Film Office releases a film location map taking visitors to many locations where movies were made in West Michigan.

Rob Lowe of NBC's Parks and Recreation and Ginnifer Goodwin of Once Upon a Time will star as President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy in the upcoming drama Killing Kennedy. National Geographic announced recently that filming will begin this month in the Richmond, Virginia area.

Space Warriors, filmed on location at Alabama's U.S. Space and Rocket Center and other locations in Huntsville, Alabama last summer, will have its big premiere tomorrow night, May 31, on the Hallmark Channel.To set the stage for the space adventure film, Hallmark will also air its 2012's A Smile As Big As The Moon (also filmed at and based on real events that happened at the Space & Rocket Center) immediately at 5 p.m. before Space Warriors comes on at 7 p.m.