From The Full Monty reboot to HBO series The Regime, starring Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant, and upcoming BBC drama Reunion, filming for which recently wrapped, big-name actors and film crews have become a common sight on the city’s streets.
But as these photos from the 1990s and noughties show, filming in Sheffield is nothing new.
David Jason, Sean Bean, David Harewood, Ken Stott and Mark Warren are among the famous faces pictured in Sheffield and elsewhere in South Yorkshire.
Film crews can be seen at locations including High Street, Sheffield; Meadowhall; Mexborough, in Doncaster; Sheffield’s Philadelphia Working Men’s Club; Bramall Lane; and the old La Chambre swingers club in Attercliffe, Sheffield.
The movies and shows being shot include When Saturday Comes, The Vice, Ken Loach film The Navigators, Michael Barrymore’s My Kind of People, A Touch of Frost, and Last of the Summer Wine.
9. The Principles of Lust
Actors Alec Newman and Marc Warren, and director Penny Woolcock, take a break from filming The Principles of Lust at Sheffield's Ponds Forge swimming pool in December 2001 | Sheffield Newspapers Ltd Photo: Roger Nadal
10. La Chambre
Jo Guest pictured with Marie from La Chambre during filming for TV's Men & Motors Channel at the swingers club in Attercliffe, Sheffield, in 2002 | Sheffield Newspapers Ltd Photo: Steve Ellis
11. Sean Bean
Sean Bean pictured during filming for When Saturday Comes at Bramall Lane in January 1995 | Sheffield Newspapers Ltd Photo: Sheffield Newspapers
12. When Saturday Comes
Sean Bean pictured during filming for When Saturday Comes at Sheffield United's Bramall Lane in January 1995 | Sheffield Newspapers Photo: Stuart Hastings