An entire leadership of the Royal British Legion was suspended with "immediate effect" this week due to "non-compliant activity".
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Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Despite being significantly hit by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023, U.K. film studios and production facilities are looking to pick back up where they left off after a record-breaking year for film and high-end television production spend in 2022. When asked what the industry can expect in terms of business in the year ahead, Samantha Perahia, head of production U.K.
at the British Film Commission, says she feels positive that demand “is going to be ramping up.” She continues, “We already know that some of our studio facilities in the U.K. are getting very busy. While not every facility in the U.K.
is jampacked again, there seems to be some momentum now, which is very welcome.” The production spend in the U.K. jumped from £726 million ($376 million) in 2016 to $7.8 billion in 2022. At the same time, the U.K.
considerably expanded its studio and stage provision to accommodate steadily increasing demand by major U.S. studios and streamers. A traditionally popular base for screen production thanks to skilled crews, generous tax incentives and a diverse landscape, the U.K.
began heavily investing in purpose-built studio facilities back in 2020, when the BFC received a $6 million government boost to expand its work promoting the U.K. as a destination of choice for studio space investment. “I wouldn’t have been able to say we have enough studio space five years ago, but I can say so now,” says Perahia.
Edinburgh’s FirstStage Studios is one of the many facilities to come onto the scene since then. With 8.9 acres of stages, offices and workshops, FirstStage is run by BAFTA-winning producer Bob Last and actor-director Jason Connery. Since first opening in 2020, the studios have welcomed
.An entire leadership of the Royal British Legion was suspended with "immediate effect" this week due to "non-compliant activity".
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