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The government film production manual has a lot of good information on taxation and laws relating to the film and TV industry. Though because of Brexit, you may need to check that something has not changed.  Film Production Company Manual – HMRC internal manual – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The Cannes Film Festival has set new submission deadlines following its decision last week to ditch its traditional May slot in favour of the later dates of July 6 to 17. It hopes the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic will have eased by then. The deadline for registration of feature films is April 26, followed by May 3 for

Hengdian World Studios, China’s largest film and television shooting base located in the eastern Chinese city of Dongyang in Zhejiang Province, has a busy filming season as the film crews across the country resume work. As the epidemic eases, the site is crowded with camera crews, and some of the shooting locations need to be

Hackman Capital Partners, the owner of sites including Culver Studios in Los Angeles and Silvercup Studios in New York, has agreed to invest £300m over the next three years to develop a site in Dagenham for a new film studio. First productions could start filming by mid-2022. “Dagenham used to be famous for factories and

Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings revealed at last year’s RTS Cambridge Convention the company had invested around $500m on UK content for that year. Netflix has repeatedly spoken of the UK’s importance as part of its original content offering, with the streamer commissioning more than 50 TV series and films last year. The SVoD giant