These sectors are in need of your investment
By Staff writer
While technology may be grabbing the headlines and column inches at present, there are plenty of investment opportunities in other sectors.
Tag: Film
Bringing the magic of the silver screen to independent cinemas nationwide
Film Mobile offers a complete cinema solution for independent cinemas across the UK. We caught up with founder, Ian Brown, who started the business after a career spent providing these services for chain multiplexes.
Founders Diaries: Introducing Memrise co-founder Ed Cooke
By Ed Cooke
As a former Grandmaster of Memory, Ed Cooke has used his passion to start a business, Memrise, and joins Founders Diaries to share his experiences.
What madness would drive a cinema chain CEO to approve texting during films
There must be a thin line between innovation and madness because Adam Aron, the new CEO of cinema group AMC Entertainment, revealed a ludicrous plan to allow texting in cinemas – the one sacred place that customers go to be relieved of communication with the outside world.
The Force Awakens at Pinewood as Star Wars studio’s profits rocket 186 per cent
It’s a case of “the Force is strong” for British film production studio Pinewood, the shooting location of soon-to-be-released Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens, which has experienced a 186 per cent profit growth.
British creative industry booms as James Bond studio Pinewood can’t meet demand
The UK’s creative industry is booming as Pinewood, the studio where latest James Bond film Spectre and Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron were filmed, is “unable to meet all the demand from large films”.
Putting alternative in alternative finance: 1980s hair salon of David Bowie in crowdfunding bid
Crowdfunding, the increasingly popular alternative finance model, continues to support all business sectors. The latest demonstration of this has seen independent filmmaker Sarah Lewis harness the channel to make a movie on Soho-based hair salon We Are Cuts, famed for styling stars including David Bowie.
The skills a British Oscar-winning creative studio looks for in employees
We sat down with Mike McGee, co-founder and creative director of Framestore, about the evolution from four-person startup to winning an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for work on sci-fi film Gravity, and what skills employees require to fit the company’s diverse operation.