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...]
Cinepocalypse names Katie Rife new Senior Programmer
Chicago’s premiere annual genre festival, produced and presented by the Music Box Theatre — is proud to bring in the New Year with the announcement of Katie Rife as new Senior Programmer of the festival. Source: Cinepocalypse names Katie Rife new Senior Programmer | Reel Chicago - Midwest film, audio, production, TV, and advertising … [Read more...]
The 2010’s was the decade where almost everything changed
If any period was game-changing in our business, it was the second decade of the 21st century. Let’s start with the obvious. We now shoot movies on stills cameras Amazingly, it was only just before the start of the decade in 2008 that the Canon 5DMkII appeared – the first stills camera fully capable of shooting 1080 video. Since then we have … [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...]
Classification ratings across cinema, games, TV and streaming to be ‘harmonised’
Ratings of films, TV shows and video games consumed by Australians are to be shaken up to ensure they're uniform across platforms and adapt to the rapidly evolving media environment. Australian Press Council chair and former communications department head Neville Stevens has been tapped by the government to look at "harmonisation" of … [Read more...]
Sky plans major TV and film studio at Elstree | News | Screen
Sky is planning to build a new 32-acre TV and film studio in Elstree, Hertfordshire., completely independent of the existing Elstree Studios. Source: Sky plans major TV and film studio at Elstree | News | Screen … [Read more...]
