Today, Thursday 1 September 2022, BFI launched their London Film Festival (LFF) programme for the upcoming 66th annual event. A slate of premieres and stunning presentations see works from Guillermo del Toro, Rian Johnson and Alejandro Iñárritu. CEO of BFI, Ben Roberts, opened the virtually broadcasted launch along with festival director Tricia Tuttle announcing the festivities that will be returning to London’s Southbank Centre.
640 UK film and TV productions have gone into production in the last 12 months thanks to the Government's Film and TV Production Restart Scheme. Television series Peaky Blinders, Baptiste (pictured right) for Television, feature films Mothering Sunday, Benediction and A Christmas Number One among productions backed by the scheme.
The scheme is expected to support over 40,000 jobs across the creative sector by allowing planned productions to shoot during the pandemic. The Government-backed GBP500 million scheme formally launches after receiving state aid approval from the EU.
The opening scene for Matthew Vaughn's, Kingsman: The Secret Circle, uses a combination of London and Birmingham based locations to depict a death-defying car chase set on the streets of the UK capital.
Does the solution to the UK’s studio problem lie in Antwerp, Belgium? It’s no secret that the influx of high-profile projects to the UK has left a strain on the nation’s production facilities.
A sequel to 1964’s Mary Poppins has begun shooting on location outside the Bank of England. Entitled Mary Poppins Returns, the production recreated an early 20th century setting, having hundreds of extras walk past the building as an old, open-deck bus drove down the street.
Italian action TV series Task Force 45 will film scenes for two different episodes on location in Malta. The Mediterranean island nation has had a busy year, standing in for Libya in Michael Bay’s new Benghazi feature, while Luc Besson’s The Lake has used its water tank.
British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard filmed on location in and around Edinburgh for the BBC’s new factual drama Castles In The Sky. The production tells the story of Scotsman Robert Watson-Watt and his struggle to invent RADAR technology in the build-up to World War II.