Agency that helped awards favourite with locations says up to 15 of its 19 staff could lose their jobs; and BFI magazine's future is also under threat
On Sunday, Colin Firth's performance as King George VI won him a best actor award at the Golden Globes. Yesterday, the film was nominated for 14 Baftas. But the royal flush of good fortune for The King's Speech, the box office smash about the monarch's struggle to overcome a stutter, looks to have come to an abrupt halt with the news that more than three-quarters of the staff of the agency that supported it may lose their jobs.
Screen Yorkshire, which oiled the wheels of the film's shoot in the county, said that up to 15 of its 19 staff could be made redundant as part of a staffing review triggered by what its chief executive, Sally Joynson, called "challenging times".
A £10.2m contract to promote and...
On Sunday, Colin Firth's performance as King George VI won him a best actor award at the Golden Globes. Yesterday, the film was nominated for 14 Baftas. But the royal flush of good fortune for The King's Speech, the box office smash about the monarch's struggle to overcome a stutter, looks to have come to an abrupt halt with the news that more than three-quarters of the staff of the agency that supported it may lose their jobs.
Screen Yorkshire, which oiled the wheels of the film's shoot in the county, said that up to 15 of its 19 staff could be made redundant as part of a staffing review triggered by what its chief executive, Sally Joynson, called "challenging times".
A £10.2m contract to promote and...
- 1/19/2011
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
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