On June 25th straight 8 replaced their annual cinema premiere in Cannes with a live YouTube format for the company charity competition, Shootout. The online show is still available to view here.
Productions are returning to Hungary as special exemptions will be granted for non-EU residents to enter without mandatory quarantine. Netflix will resume filming Terra Vision in Hungary in mid-July followed by Legendary’s Dune in August.
Izaskun Montilla from Boudika Productions says that collaboration and cooperation was key to pulling off the first remote shoot. After a strict lockdown, the service company collaborated with twenty Tenerife companies to exhibit the talent and locations available.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 819 artists and executives to join the organisation. Six LMGI members including Harriet Lawrence and Todd Christensen are included in the 2020 class.
WHY MAURITIUS? COVID-19 free since May 2020 40%. Film Incentive on FEATURE FILMS ABOVE & BELOW the LINE with no CAP, 30% Film Rebate on TV COMMERCIALS
Markus Bensch production executive at Studio Babelsberg speaks to TLG as the Berlin studio prepares for principal production to resume.
The Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) will present a virtual town hall on racial equity, diversity and inclusion in the television, film and commercial production workplace, with a focus on location management, on Tuesday, June 30 from 10am – 12pm PST.
I May Destroy You is the latest hit drama to air on the BBC. Writer, co-director and executive producer Michaela Coel (Chewing Gum, Black Earth Rising) says that London is both the teller of the story, and the essence of the story itself that revolves around a young woman who must rebuild her life after her drink is spiked.