A new British film charts the battle of Wapping printworkers in 1986 against the Murdoch empire. It even stars Bob Hoskins
An industrial estate in Isleworth, west London, on Friday evening would swiftly disabuse anyone of the notion that film-making is a glamorous business. Extras in donkey jackets huddle in the rain around unlit braziers as the stench from the nearby sewage works drifts across the scene. A flu-ridden Bob Hoskins rubs his hands, his coughing drowned out by the whine of jets sinking into Heathrow. Spluttering old Transit vans are reversed into position, hand-painted signs that read "6,000 sacked by foreign bosses" are brandished, two police horses clop up, and suddenly we are transported back to Wapping in 1986.
"It's not about progress, it's about profit," shouts Hoskins as 70 extras gather around him, playing striking printers attempting to stop Rupert Murdoch's new Wapping printworks from getting its newspapers out. The sky...
An industrial estate in Isleworth, west London, on Friday evening would swiftly disabuse anyone of the notion that film-making is a glamorous business. Extras in donkey jackets huddle in the rain around unlit braziers as the stench from the nearby sewage works drifts across the scene. A flu-ridden Bob Hoskins rubs his hands, his coughing drowned out by the whine of jets sinking into Heathrow. Spluttering old Transit vans are reversed into position, hand-painted signs that read "6,000 sacked by foreign bosses" are brandished, two police horses clop up, and suddenly we are transported back to Wapping in 1986.
"It's not about progress, it's about profit," shouts Hoskins as 70 extras gather around him, playing striking printers attempting to stop Rupert Murdoch's new Wapping printworks from getting its newspapers out. The sky...
- 5/3/2012
- by Patrick Barkham
- The Guardian - Film News
TORONTO -- Canadian cartoon producer Amberwood Entertainment and British kids TV producer Talent Television Ltd. announced on Tuesday a joint venture that includes a first-look arrangement on programming either partner has in development. The deal, signed by Tony Humphreys, managing director of London-based Talent Television, and Sheldon Wiseman, president and CEO of Ottawa-based Amberwood Entertainment, aims at pooling international co-production dollars to boost budgets for kids programming that both have in the pipeline as global broadcast license fees continue to slump, the companies said in a statement. Talent Television, a division of Talent Group Plc., is producing four new Test The Nation shows for BBC, while Amberwood is best known for its Kate and Orbie and Hoze Houndz cartoon series.
- 2/25/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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