‘Northanger Abbey’ Crew Pursue Lawsuit After $9M Jane Austen Film Collapsed, With Producers Yet To Make Good On Promises To Pay Wages

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British crew members on an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey are pursuing legal action after the film collapsed, leaving some people so broke, they had to ask colleagues for fuel money to get home.   Source: https://deadline.com/2026/06/northanger-abbey-jane-austen-lawsuit-1236962688/

Film producer’s 50 firms struck off companies register, leaving workers unable to chase fees

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A prolific film producer, whose projects have starred the likes of Frasier’s Kelsey Grammer and Four Weddings and a Funeral’s Anna Chancellor, has had scores of his production businesses forcibly removed from the UK’s companies register, leaving workers unable to … Continued

Gore Verbinski Says We Need a ‘Rating System’ for AI Use in Films: ‘If You Use AI to Write a Script, You Get an F’

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American director Gore Verbinski, who is at the Taormina Film Festival in competition with “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,” spoke about the challenges of labelling the use of AI in films as the technology continues to grow exponentially.   … Continued