Singer and TV presenter Brenda Edwards has posted a family photo of her and her late son Jamal, who tragically died aged 31.
04.02.2022 - 13:37 / deadline.com
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.
Today’s annual statistics from the BFI showed a hefty turnaround after last year’s spend fell by 20%, in a year that included months of lockdown-induced production hiatus.
Film spend returned to an increase in 2021, rising by 13% to £1.5BN ($2BN), but it was the UK’s booming HETV sector that really reaped the rewards, skyrocketing by 155% to £4.1BN ($5.6BN), almost three times that of film, which crushed previous records.
The HETV growth is also double pre-pandemic levels. Shows such as Netflix’s Bridgerton series two, which defied several Covid shutdowns to push on, Call My Agent! and co-produced BBC dramas such as Chloe and The Girl Before brought in huge amounts. By the summer, reports of a “skills crisis” were abounding, with producers regularly reporting that the workforce was virtually at full capacity.
The majority of the HETV spend (£3.4BN) came from international spend or co-productions. The rapid growth was also helped by a sharp increase in single long-form productions made for the streamers, such as Netflix’s Pinocchio and Matilda, which count towards HETV rather than film. These high-end shows contributed £740M to the overall £4.1BN spend.
Film rose by a steadier 13% to £1.5BN following a difficult 2020.
The number of films that entered production rose by 75 to 209, including big hitters such as The Batman, Aquaman 2 (pictured) and Mission: Impossible 7.
The majority of the spend (82%) went towards international movies and, while investment rose by 46% on domestic UK indies, this still represents a small amount of the overall pie,
Singer and TV presenter Brenda Edwards has posted a family photo of her and her late son Jamal, who tragically died aged 31.
House of Gucci takes its place as the UK’s Number 1 film.
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Refresh for latest…: After debuting early in 15 overseas markets last weekend, Sony’s Uncharted was game for another $55.4M at the international box office this session in a total 62 offshore hubs. With a projected $51M four-day domestic frame, the weekend maps out at $106.4M worldwide. This takes the running offshore cume to $88M and global to $139M.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterSony’s long-in-the-works video game adaptation “Uncharted” collected $44.1 million between Friday and Sunday, enough to lead domestic box office charts and solidify Tom Holland’s star power.The big-budget action adventure has been positioned as a key test of Holland’s bankability outside of his blockbuster success as Spider-Man. “Uncharted” has received mixed reviews, at best, so it’s safe to assume the 25-year-old British actor had a healthy hand in selling tickets. It also helps that “Uncharted” is rated PG-13 and based on one of the most popular video games.Directed by “Ruben Fleischer, who previously led Tom Hardy’s comic book tentpole “Venom” to box office glory, “Uncharted” is expected to earn $52 million from 4,275 North American theaters through the President’s Day holiday on Monday.
Ireland saw a record-breaking €500M ($570M) production spend across film, television drama, documentary and animation in 2021, according to new figures released by national agency Screen Ireland.
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Sony will release it’s first movie of 2022, and second Tom Holland title after Spider-Man: No Way Home over the 4-day Presidents Day weekend, Uncharted, in what is expected to be a $70M+ haul worldwide.
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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterMere months after Tom Holland ignited box office charts with “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” the 25-year-old British actor is swinging back to movie theater marquees with “Uncharted.”Ahead of its domestic debut on Feb. 18, Sony’s big-screen adaptation of its popular video game series opened at the international box office to a solid $21.5 million from 15 overseas markets.“Uncharted” had the biggest start in the United Kingdom, landing in first place with $6.4 million.
Refresh for latest…: Hitting 15 offshore markets ahead of its domestic debut and further overseas expansion next weekend, Sony’s Uncharted mapped out an international box office launch of $21.5M. The Tom Holland/Mark Wahlberg-starrer was No. 1 in each of its openings, taking advantage of school holidays in some markets and, of course, the Spider-Man Holland halo.
Longtime Fleet Street fixture Baz Bamigboye is joining Deadline as a columnist and international editor at large. Bamigboye comes from London’s Daily Mail, where he has been the newspaper’s chief chronicler of showbusiness in the UK for three decades.
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Euro Box Office Stats For 2021
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentEuropean cinema admissions rose an estimated 38% in 2021, with over 590 million total tickets sold, generating a 42% rise in box office to €3.7 billion ($4.2 billion) compared with the all-time low year of 2020.The preliminary figures were released on Monday by the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), the trade org representing European cinema associations. It comprises cinema exhibitors and their national trade associations across 39 European territories, some of which do not belong to the European Union.At a EU level — which covers the U.K.