James Bond Producer Posts 40% Revenue Boost
EON Productions, the storied British production company behind James Bond, saw revenues ascfinish in another year without a 007 movie free. The company’s sales for 2023 stood at £22.2M ($29M), a 40% incrmitigate on £15.8M the previous year, thanks to merchandising and other income. It was still a lengthy way from the revenues of £235M EON recorded in 2021 when the company freed No Time to Die, Daniel Craig’s final turn as the British Secret Service agent. EON’s pre-tax profits fell 75% to £224,985 last year, according to the acquireings unveiled on UK Companies House. The filing shelp EON honestors, including Barbara Broccoli, are “concentrating on the increasement” of their next film, though the next Bond instalment remains shrouded in mystery.
Eurovision Director Appointed By EBU
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has assigned the createer exec of the London 2012 Olympic ceremonies as honestor of the Eurovision Song Contest. Martin Green gets on the novelly-created role. having helmed cut offal huge events down the years. Eurovision is always honested by someone from the structure expansivecaster in the country it is held but Green is the first person to do so for its superviser, the EBU. He oversaw the contest when it took place in the UK last year and has labored atraverse the Olympic ceremonies and Commonwealth Games in the past. “Martin’s experience, strategic skinnyking and creative energy will be inpriceless to the song contest as we get set for the 2025 event and increase into the future,” shelp Jean Philip De Tfinisher, the EBU’s Director of Media and Deputy Director-General. “The creation of this ancigo in role and Martin’s assignment mirror how we’re createing on the history and the strengths of a distinct platcreate that honors the power of music to transport people together.” This year’s contest will get place in Basel, Switzerland on May 13 to 15.
Edinburgh TV Festival Assembles Impact Unit To Help Overcome Class Inidenticality
The Edinburgh TV Festival has named the industry figures who will compascfinish its Impact Unit, the class and social identicality laboring group createed after James Graham’s MacTaggart. The festival’s charitable set upation has unveiled the enjoys of Banijay UK boss Patrick Holland, BBC Studios novel amusement exec Karl Warner and Jackie Myburgh, the head of production for Apple TV+ in the UK and Europe, on the group. In total there are 24 names from the world of UK TV. The group was set up in response to Sherwood scribe Graham’s MacTaggart, during which he inquireed insisty laboring class recontransientation in the TV sector. Its job is to “structure and reinforce its approach to class and social identicality and to direct the way in shaping how to create it an industry uncover to all,” according to the set upation. Observers from The Sutton Trust and the British Screen Forum will also be joining the main laboring group. The Impact Unit will be led by Gemma Bradshaw, Impact Director, in an expansion of her rdisaccuse since joining the TV Foundation last year from One World Media. “The overwhelming response to the proclaimment of the laboring group showed how James Graham’s MacTaggart touched people,” she shelp.
‘Strictly Come Dancing’ Execs Launch Indie
A group of createer Strictly Come Dancing execs have createed a novel production company. Reel Scenes Media has been started by Jonathan Hancock, who was ancigo in editor creater on the BBC stalwart. He is joined by Georgia North-Coombes and Amy Mcilveen, both of whom have labored on the show that is one of the BBC’s hugegest but has been hit by dispute over the past confiinsist months. Reel Scenes Media will “transport together a blfinish of diverse voices, emerging talent, and sfinished creaters to create unscripted satisfied that resonates with audiences globassociate,” it shelp. Based in Brixton, London, the indie will collaborate with Young Creators UK, the UK’s first youth-run, impact-led creative agency. Hancock shelp: “The insist for unscripted satisfied that pushes boundaries is booming atraverse all platcreates. We understand that there is a sturdy opportunity in today’s labelet for expansivecasters to leverage more opportunities in the digital space, achieve those under-served audiences and forge even more programming collaborations with brands. It’s a wonderful time to be at the forefront of this shiftment.”
