Merseyside has been gaining a reputation in recent years as a hotspot for film crews, with blockbuster films and star-studded TV programmes being filmed across the region.
While Liverpool is a popular location for filming, there have also been many top films and shows which have used the Wirral as a location.
We take a look at some of the big film productions to have come to the paradise peninsula in recent times.
The Almond and the Seahorse
Hollywood star Rebel Wilson has been making quite a stir across the Wirral peninsula in recent weeks.
The star has popped up in various locations, including West Kirby and New Brighton whilst filming her new drama, a feature adaptation of Kaite O’Reilly’s stage play The Almond And Seahorse.
She was spotted in New Brighton alongside her co-star Charlotte Gainsborough and was even snapped having a dip in the lake at West Kirby.
Filming for the drama has taken place in locations throughout Liverpool, Wirral and Wales and is due to be aired later this year.
Sky's political drama COBRA
New Brighton became the location of a crash scene for Sky's political drama Cobra earlier this year with overturned vehicles, mountains of sand and scattered debris filling the resort streets.
Film crews transformed an area close to the town's promenade in February while filming for season two of the high stakes drama.
COBRA stars Robert Carlyle, Anna Marshall, Victoria Hamilton, Fraser Walker and Lucy Cohu and centres on a national emergency threatening to engulf the country, as a COBRA team of experts, crisis planners and politicians fight to protect citizens from disaster.
Filming also took place in venues around Liverpool, and it wasn't the first time the drama has used Merseyside as a set, as they had previously used parts of the city centre for season 1 of the hit show.
The 51st State
The 2001 blockbuster action comedy starring Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle was partially set at Wirral's Birkenhead Docks.
Others scenes were shot in locations around Liverpool including Anfield, the Pier Head and Water Street.
Peaky Blinders
Although Peaky Blinders is set in Birmingham, most of it was filmed across Merseyside.
Notable locations in Liverpool included the Georgian quarter and Stanley Dock, but the crew were also spotted at various locations across Wirral including Port Sunlight and Seacombe.
Irish actor Cillian Murphy, who plays Thomas Shelby in the BBC Two drama, has filmed scenes in Port Sunlight.
Joe Cole, who plays John Shelby and Paul Anderson, who plays his brother Arthur, were pictured filming series three at Seacombe Ferry Terminal, which was decked out in American flags.
Florence Foster Jenkins
Released in May 2016, the movie was a biography of New York socialite and renowned bad singer Florence Foster Jenkins.
Starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, while the production was set in New York, several scenes were filmed in New Brighton.
Chariots of Fire
The British Classic, starring Nigel Havers and Ian Holm was released in 1981 and used various Wirral spots for filming during the summer of 1980.
Woodside Ferry Terminal featured, as did Bebington Oval, which was transformed into Paris’s Stade Colombes for the memorable race scenes.
The Violators
The Violaters, based on a book by Mersey-based author Helen Walsh, was released in summer 2015.
A film crew spent five weeks shooting around the Birkenhead area, although the town is not named in the film.
Blood
Blood was a 2012 thriller by BAFTA award-winning director Nick Murphy and starring Stephen Graham and Paul Bettany.
The director grew up in West Kirby and chose Hilbre Island as one of the locations for the film, which follows the tales of two detective brothers.
Scenes were also filmed at Birkenhead Town Hall and Wallasey Town Hall as well as Leasowe lighthouse and seafront.
The Magnet
The Magnet was a 1950 film telling the story of a young Wallasey boy, played by the actor James Fox, who ends up possessing a prized magnet.
New Brighton Beach and Birkenhead were some of the locations for filming.
In 2015, Ealing Studios re-released the comedy after it had been digitally enhanced by experts.
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Let Him Have It
Starring Christopher Eccleston and Paul Reynolds, the 1991 film was based on the true story of Derek Bentley - a man who was controversially hanged for murder after a police officer was shot dead, despite him not being the gunman.
Parts of the production were filmed in New Brighton, which doubled as Croyden.
Other productions which used Wirral as a location include the 2009 film period film Away Days, starring Stephen Graham, Harry potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, which used clips of the Queensway Tunnel and Breaking Free, filmed in 2014, using locations in and around Birkenhead.
