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• BAFTA Launches Cinema Campaign With Big Zuu; Noah Media Group Reshuffles Team; ITV Announces Documentary Slate — Global Briefs August 19, 2022
  BAFTA Launches Filmmaking Campaign With Digital Cinema Media & Big Zuu BAFTA and Digital Cinema Media have launched a campaign titled ‘Behind every BAFTA’ based around a national cinema ad,  highlighting the diverse range of skills that contribute to the production of award-winning films, games, and television with the aim to inspire the next generation […]
• BBC Studios Rolls Out Bullying And “Inappropriate Behaviour” Pledge To All Shows August 19, 2022
  EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios is rolling out an initiative to prevent bullying and stop “inappropriate behaviour” to all of its productions. The BBC’s commercial arm has been using what it has titled The Pledge on select shows this year including Strictly Come Dancing, EastEnders and Good Omens and, on its anniversary, the move will become mandatory for all programs, […]
• “I Don’t Like Him”: Salman Rushdie’s Alleged Attacker Claims He’s Only Read Two Pages Of Satanic Verses August 19, 2022
  Salman Rushdie’s alleged assailant has claimed he has only ever read two pages of the author’s novel The Satanic Verses. Hadi Matar has been charged with second degree murder and assault, after the incident a week ago, when the Booker prize-winning author was stabbed on stage at a conference where he was about to talk […]
• UK Financier Goldfinch Closes Three Distribution & Development Entities August 19, 2022
  UK financier Goldfinch has shuttered three of its subsidiary companies. According to documents on Companies House, Bird Box Distribution Ltd entered a creditors liquidation and SEIS vehicle Bird Box Film Development is being dissolved this week. Streaming platform Birdbox.film, a short-lived VOD service, has also gone out of business. Phil McKenzie, COO Goldfinch, told us: “Goldfinch continues to actively […]