The making of Hollywood hits such as the latest James Bond film No Time To Die and Sam Mendes’s 1917, as well as prestige dramas such as Netflix’s The Crown and the BBC’s His Dark Materials, fuelled a record spend of £3.6bn on film and TV production in the UK last year. The amount spent on film production in the UK in 2019 rose 6% year-on-year to … [Read more...]
Is the ‘Netflix bubble’ in the UK about to burst?
Inward investment in UK film and TV shows reached £1.36bn in the opening nine months of last year, according to figures from the British Film Institute. It represented a £160m increase on the same period in 2018. By comparison, spending on domestic features fell to £135m from £229m. The free-spending streamers seem to have kick-started another … [Read more...]
Leading US cinema chains boycott Netflix Oscar nominees
AMC Theatres and Regal Cinemas won’t be showing any Best Picture nominees released by Netflix on their screens in the US. The two cinema chains have been boycotting Netflix’s release strategy, which prevents cinemas from receiving a 90-day window of exclusivity as is traditional. Source: Netflix: US cinema chains AMC and Regal won't be screening … [Read more...]
Cinemas look to reel in punters as battle with Netflix and Amazon heats up
Netflix might have earned more Oscar nominations than any Hollywood studio, but the UK is enjoying a cinema renaissance as chains add sofas, reclining seats and waiter service for a classier night out. Source: Cinemas look to reel in punters as battle with Netflix and Amazon heats up … [Read more...]
Epson unveils new mini laser projector with Android TV and Netflix support
The newly announced Epson EF-100 projector is the first Android TV projector we've come across with official Netflix support, and that's pretty exciting. Source: Epson unveils new mini laser projector with Android TV and Netflix support … [Read more...]
Netflix, Marvel, Brexit – and Weinstein: how this decade radically reshaped cinema’s heroes and villains
Hollywood’s monsters were exposed, streaming services embraced auteurs and ‘motion smoothing’ made the movies look like daytime TV he long decade closes with no consensus on what we were supposed to call it (the “teens”?) nor about what ground has been gained or lost in the big cinema debates of the past 10 years. Steven Spielberg warned of a … [Read more...]
