Pinewood Counts Cost of Us Film Disputes [Edition 3]

Evening Standard - London › August 25, 2009

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RUSSELL CROWE has been in filming Ridley Scott's new Robin Hood adventure, Jack Black has been doing the latest take on Gulliver's Travels, and Ricky Gervais and Stephen Marchant have been tweaking their 1970s homage to Reading in Cemetery Junction.

But the bottleneck in production because of the recent screenwriters' and actors' disputes in America has seen a drop off in work at the heart of Britain's film industry west of London, with the Pinewood, Shepperton and Teddington studios group today reporting a 55% slump in half-year profits.

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Pinewood Counts Cost of Us Film Disputes [Edition 3]

Ivan Dunleavy, the chief executive and co-founder o...

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