A theatrical motion picture based on the hit 1960s Big Valley television series will start filming next April in the film tax incentive rich states of Michigan and New Mexico. Big Valley will be produced by Kate Edelman Johnson, and directed and adapted by renowned filmmaker Daniel Adams from the classic Louis F. Edelman TV Show.

Real Detroit Weekly talks with Hung creator Colette Burson about why he chose to set and shot the new hit HBO series in Detroit.

Also, all this week is Christopher Coppola’s PAH MoTown Film Festival on the campus of Madonna University in Livonia.