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A proposal to Amanda Neville and Greg Dyke on behalf of the British Film Institute, and Greg Dyke on behalf of the Department for Media, Culture and Sport, On the face of it, the British film industry seems to be in pretty good health. With countless American films being shot in the country, a large [...]
Today’s edition of Entertainment Weekly features the cover story that Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to star in a semi-autobiographical animated television series called The Governator. Today being the first of April, there is unlikely enough salt in the whole of Britain with which to take this allegedly exclusive news story. Once we had overcome the crushing disappointment [...]
Scarlett Johansson (Iron Man 2) is attached to star in the science-fiction film Under The Skin. Under The Skin centers on an alien (Johansson) on earth, disguised as a mesmerizing woman who uses her voracious sexuality to scour remote highways and desolate scenery to snare human prey. Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast) is attached to direct [...]
Last night, I got to spend an evening at the BFI surrounded by dozens of amateur film-makers, all buzzing with excitement at making the shortlist for the 2010 Virgin Media Shorts Awards. In an auditorium packed with 450 cast, crew, journalists and judges, we got to see the 12 finalist entries all desperate to find [...]
Variety are reporting that more than one month after the UK film council was disbanded by our new coalition government, a proposal is being drawn up for a new plan of action for Britain’s movie business. The abolition sparked controversy both locally and globally, to the extent that Clint Eastwood wrote a letter of protest [...]
A couple of days ago, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced that the UK Film Council is to be axed as part of departmental cost-cutting measures. The UKFC was founded in 2000 and through it, the government funded UK films to the tune of around £15m each year. The UKFC chairman, Tim Bevan, [...]
John Woodward, CEO of the UK Film Council, told staff this morning of the plan to abolish the UK Film Council, which, since it’s launch in 2000, has invested Lottery money and government grants in the production of more than 900 films, including such critical and commercial successes as: Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold), In The [...]
The UK Film Council have today published their Statistical Yearbook online, and it paints a very healthy picture despite the economical climate. Of particular interest is this page, the Top 20 UK Films, which shows UK funded and part funded productions with some obvious (Harry Potter), some which were surprise hits (Sherlock Holmes) and some [...]
At the end of my recent article about the new UK government pulling the funding rug from under the feet of the BFI’s National Film Centre, I wondered about the future for the UK Film Council and today I got my answer. Deadline have a good run down of the details, suffice to say it’s [...]