French global investment management firm AXA Investment Managers (IM) have acquired North West London’s BBC Elstree Centre. This purchase marks the first investment by AXA IM into the UK’s TV and film studio market. As part of the deal AXA IM will lease part of the studios to BBC for 25 years. Oxygen Studios, who […]
The official films in competition for the 2024 Berlin Film Festival have been announced. Opening with Tim Mielant’s Small Things Like These, starring Cillian Murphy, the lineup includes La Cocina from Mexican director Alonzo Ruizpalacious and From Hilde With Love from Germany’s Andreas Dresen. This year’s international jury will be headed by Lupita Nyong’o, with […]
Plans have been announced to launch a new skills training programme later this month for creatives looking to break in behind-the-camera roles in the West of England. This follows Bristol City Council’s Film Services securing almost £300,000 (£299,818) from the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority, led by Metro Mayor Dan Norris. The programme is […]
Cannes Film Festival has announced actor, screenwriter and director Greta Gerwig will take on the role as jury president for the 77th edition. Breaking record for the 2023’s Barbie phenomenon, Gerwig will become the first American female director to take on the presidency of the festival, as well as the youngest. Cannes Film Festival will […]
Madrid Film Office, the audiovisual office of Madrid City Council, was present last week at Ventana Sur (Buenos Aires), the most important market for audiovisual content in Latin America. With the aim of promoting relations between Madrid and the Latin American audiovisual industries, two round tables have been organized to highlight the main programs that […]
Lites offers custom built floating platforms that can hold up to 30 tonnes of set. Exterior boat decks or interior sets can float, rock on the waves, tilt 90°, capsize, and sink underwater while offering full safety for the people on the platforms.
At the end of October, Production Service Network, along with a cohort of UK and US producers travelled across Spain for an eye opening experience into the constantly evolving filming opportunities in the country. From natural landscapes from Madrid to Valencia, and the 10 studio complex spanning Madrid Content City, attendees were in for a […]
Berkshire based Shinfield Studios is reaching the finish line of construction. As the largest new film and television studio development in the UK, Shinfield Studios will feature 18 soundstages, with 13 available now. With strike action reaching its end, Shinfield are readying themselves to welcome productions to their state of the art facility, full operational […]
What do you do when your past life starts to catch up with you? That question is answered in Disney+ UK original Culprits. Executive produced by Stephen Garrett and J Blakeson, Culprits follows high stakes criminal turned family man Joe Petrus as the life he’s built begins to unravel. In the lead up to the […]
The Baltic States initial foray into the world of FamTours was off the charts. Borne from years of speaking with my Lithuanian colleague Jonas Spokas, it all came to fruition at 2022 Focus. I was talking with Jonas and Jurate Pazikaite, the Vilnius Film Commissioner, about how I had just seen the Lithuanian submission for […]