As befits a champion of creative excellence and progress, the Cannes Lions Awards have evolved to include gaming, the metaverse, a greater focus on effectiveness and with sustainability and diversity running throughout its core.
BAFTA albert and Julie’s Bicycle have been awarded a total of GBP 586,755 of National Lottery funding over three years. This is part of the new BFI National Lottery Sustainable Screen Fund in support of all BFI National Lottery awardees in building environmental understanding and action on positive environmental change. Keir Powell-Lewis acts as head […]
In all its luxurious drama, Succession is not short of sprawling mansions and staggering skyscrapers. But for the fifth episode of season four, the Roy siblings travel across the Atlantic to Norway. With mountainous backdrops to the modern Nordic architecture featured in the episode, this episode offers a contrast to the cityscapes of America.
With serpentine lakes and daunting rivers, Apple TV’s The Essex Serpent is not for the thalassophobic. Leading the way to tackle the waterscapes of Maldon’s Blackwater river and beyond, Marine Department leant its logistics and training experience to the production. The Location Guide spoke to marine coordinator Jonjo Stickland to find out a bit more.
On 1 August 2022, Netflix shared their new trailer for South Korean action film Seoul Vibe. Shot against the backdrop of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the film will star Yoo Ah-in, Go Kyung-po, Lee, Kyu-hung and many more.
The Production Guild of Great Britain (PGGB) has revealed the members of its new Northern Ireland Committee. This announcement marks the second of six National and Regional Committees being establishing by the UK’s leading membership body for production professionals. The PGGB Northern Ireland Committee is sponsored by cast and crew specialists Sargent-Disc. It will be […]
Food delivery service Just Eat Takeaway.com and creative agency McCann London have created a new advertisement with pop star Katy Perry. The musician performs her own rendition of Just Eat’s Did Somebody Say jingle, celebrating the excitement of ordering takeaway food. This spot needed to appeal to 10 new markets that had never previously encountered […]
Warner Bros. Pictures has confirmed that director Matt Reeves is scripting a sequel to The Batman. Reeves and Dylan Clark will return to produce the project, with actor Robert Pattinson once again set to star as the Caped Crusader. Confirmation of a forthcoming sequel took place at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, when the film’s director […]
The Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) has elected new members and officers for its 2022 board of directors. Bas van der Ree from the Netherlands Film Commission will become the AFCI’s first board chairperson representing Europe in more than a decade. Eight of the board’s eleven members will be prominent female figures, forming the […]
The BFI, together with its Disability Screen Advisory Group, has launched a new initiative called Press Reset. The second iteration of this digital campaign, Press Reset 2021 tackles the damaging impacts of ableism, and urgently calls for the screen sector to change how it engages with disabled talent behind and in front of the camera.