British Film Commission Updates COVID Production Guidance Following England’s Return to ‘Plan A’

Two key players fighting to improve mental health in the UK film industry have spotlighted the improvements that have taken place since the pandemic started.

Project New Era, a ground-breaking initiative in the UK led by The Payments Association, paywith.glass and other private industry stakeholders, supported by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as its consulting partner, has published its Green Paper report, ‘A New Era for Money’.

K.J. Yossman Tara Reid is set to play an MI6 agent in upcoming espionage thriller “Cold Sun,” Variety can exclusively reveal.Reid will play an inexperienced British spy called Marsha Ravencourt in the film, which has been billed as “Cagney and Lacey with a difference.”Jason Figgis (“The Ecstasy of Isabel Mann”) will direct the feature, which is set to shoot this summer in the U.K.

Komplizen Film, the German indie run by Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade and Jonas Dornbach, has joined The Creatives, an alliance of independent production companies that has a three-year partnership for developing and funding series with Fremantle.

K.J. Yossman “The Crown” producers Left Bank Pictures are making “Palomino – a new female-led series – for Netflix.The eight-part series revolves around Erin Collantes, a British teacher in Spain who gets caught up in a “brutal” supermarket robbery.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set female-led action adventure series Palomino from Sony-backed The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures, with filming set to get underway later this year in Barcelona.

K.J. Yossman “Breaking Point,” a feature about breakdancing from the directors of hit film “StreetDance 3D” will get its sales launch at EFM.Directed by Dania Pasquini and Max Guia, who helmed both “StreetDance 3D” and “StreetDance 2,” “Breaking Point” is described as “an adrenaline fuelled, high energy deep dive into the world of breakdancing.” HanWay Films are handling worldwide sales for the film, which goes into production in April.“StreetDance 2” alum Niek Traa will reunite with Pasquini and Guia for the new feature, choreographing the dance scenes.

K.J. Yossman Darkland Distribution, an imprint of Parkland Entertainment, has picked up British sci-fi thriller “Deus.”As well as acquiring the U.K.

A top TV vet has named the full list of dog breeds that could be under threat after Norway banned the selective breeding of two popular British breeds.

Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating a historic milestone. This weekend, the 95-year-old monarch will mark Accession Day on Feb.

The UK’s high-end TV (HETV) and film industries have defied the Covid odds and are back, pulling off a record year in 2021 as they delivered a massive £5.6B ($7.6BN) of production spend.

Naman Ramachandran In cheering news for the British entertainment business, film and high-end television production spend in the U.K. reached over £5.64 billion ($7.65 billion) in 2021, £1.27 billion higher than for the pre-pandemic year 2019. Official figures published on Friday by the BFI’s Research and Statistics Unit reveal that film production reached £1.55 billion, 3% up on 2020, while high-end TV production soared to £4.09 billion, nearly double pre-pandemic 2019 levels.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorFormosa Group and Fox Post Production Services have announced a strategic alliance.Based at the historic Fox Studio Lot in Century City, Fox Post Production Services encompasses four feature mixing stages, two ADR stages, the famous Newman Scoring Stage, a Foley stage and editing rooms to support the full post-production process. Formosa Group will have a presence in the original Film Editorial building on the lot.

Naman Ramachandran Young British actor Ahmed Elhaj is all set for Apple TV Plus series “Bad Monkey,” from “Ted Lasso” co-creator Bill Lawrence, who has written the series and will serve as executive producer.Headlined by Vince Vaughn, the series is based on Carl Hiaasen’s 2013 novel of the same name. Elhaj plays a character named Neville, a tame and relaxed fisherman who lives in the Bahamas, whose life is completely turned around when his house is sold and destroyed. He then goes on a journey of retribution.The heavyweight cast also includes Michelle Monaghan, Jodie Turner-Smith, Meredith Hagner and Rob Delaney.

With less than two weeks to go before this year’s BRIT Awards, Inflo has been announced as the winner of this year’s British Producer Of The Year prize.Real name Dean Josiah Cover, Inflo has worked with artists including Adele, Little Simz and Michael Kiwuanuka, as well as leading his own project, Sault. Although the best producer trophy has been handed out in some capacity as part of most BRIT Awards ceremonies since 1977 – generally not as part of the main ceremony and for a time in partnership with the Music Producers Guild Awards – he is the first black producer to take away the prize.“As the first black music producer to ever win a BRIT for Best Producer, I feel honoured to be a part of change”, says Inflo.

Parklife's big summer return for 2022 saw a huge clamour for tickets this week - causing a sell-out of weekend passes within hours of going on general sale on Thursday.

Stephen Fry, Piers Morgan and Mark Gatiss have led tributes to the comedian Barry Cryer, who has died aged 86. The cause of Cryer’s death has yet to be disclosed. Fry was among the first to remember Cryer, writing: “Such sad news, one of the absolute greats of British comedy, Barry Cryer, is no more.