Seven famous films shot in the North East

Ok, so we all now this one! But aside from Newcastle, numerous locations were used throughout the region - including the beach at Blackhall Colliery when it was just about at its ugliest.

Blast Beach was famously used to film scenes for Alien 3.

The film was obviously the second sequel to Ridley Scott's Alien, so worth remembering here the South Shields-born director studied in Hartlepool and was inspired by Teesside for the film Blade Runner.

Both set and filmed in East Durham, this modern classic is perhaps one of the region's best cinematic exports.

The excitement of Hollywood flooded into the North East in 2016 when producers chose Alnwick and Newcastle to shoot scenes for the latest Transformers film.

Passersby grabbed selfies of stars Mark Wahlberg and Sir Anthony Hopkins during breaks in filming. The film opens later this year.

One of the biggest series of films ever made - and the North East got a big slice of the action, with Durham Cathedral and Alnwick Castle used in the production.

Alnwick Castle has been used in countless films, including The Spaceman and King Arthur, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Ridley Scott's Robin Hood and Elizabeth - as well as TV programmes such as Blackadder.

One of the film's most memorable scenes made this tree on Hadrian's Wall one of the world's most recognisable pieces of flora.

The namesake tree of Sycamore Gap was voted Tree of the Year for 2016, some 25 years after Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman fought Guy of Gisbourne's men around it.

Redcar became wartime Dunkirk after it was chosen for the most action-packed scenes in the adaption of Ian McEwan's literary masterpiece Atonement.