Exclusive: Private funding shortfall and tough economic climate halt move.
The London Film School has withdrawn from a deal with the City of London Corporation to relocate to the Barbican Centre in 2017.
The Lfs had secured a lease to convert Exhibition Hall 1 on Golden Lane/ Beech Street into a $19m-$22m (£12m-£14m) new film school. But a shortfall in private investment and the tough economic climate has led to the move being cancelled.
The proposed relocation was publicly announced in September 2013 with the lease signed in January 2015.
It is understood that the prestigious school, whose alumni include Mike Leigh, Michael Mann, Duncan Jones and Tak Fujimoto, had $2.8m (£1.8m) of pledged support from Creative Skillset and additional pledges from a number of private individuals and Trusts. However, it was unable to unlock the level of private funding required for the move.
A relocation from Covent Garden is still on the cards, according to Lfs...
The London Film School has withdrawn from a deal with the City of London Corporation to relocate to the Barbican Centre in 2017.
The Lfs had secured a lease to convert Exhibition Hall 1 on Golden Lane/ Beech Street into a $19m-$22m (£12m-£14m) new film school. But a shortfall in private investment and the tough economic climate has led to the move being cancelled.
The proposed relocation was publicly announced in September 2013 with the lease signed in January 2015.
It is understood that the prestigious school, whose alumni include Mike Leigh, Michael Mann, Duncan Jones and Tak Fujimoto, had $2.8m (£1.8m) of pledged support from Creative Skillset and additional pledges from a number of private individuals and Trusts. However, it was unable to unlock the level of private funding required for the move.
A relocation from Covent Garden is still on the cards, according to Lfs...
- 8/3/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Maria Miller, the culture secretary, has hit back at Nicholas Hytner's accusations of neglect of the arts by the government
Culture secretary Maria Miller has accused leading members of the arts world of making statements "close to pure fiction" and saying that "accusations that this government neither likes nor supports the arts are disingenuous in the extreme".
In a highly combative article in the London Evening Standard, she also hit out personally at Sir Nicholas Hytner, director of the National Theatre, saying it was "outrageous" of him to claim that "the government has done next to nothing to encourage philanthropy". She was referring to comments made by him earlier this month at an event, supported by Olympics opening ceremony director Danny Boyle, to raise awareness of funding problems for theatres in the regions.
It was the second time she had publicly taken on Hytner this week. On Monday, at a Conservative party fundraising event,...
Culture secretary Maria Miller has accused leading members of the arts world of making statements "close to pure fiction" and saying that "accusations that this government neither likes nor supports the arts are disingenuous in the extreme".
In a highly combative article in the London Evening Standard, she also hit out personally at Sir Nicholas Hytner, director of the National Theatre, saying it was "outrageous" of him to claim that "the government has done next to nothing to encourage philanthropy". She was referring to comments made by him earlier this month at an event, supported by Olympics opening ceremony director Danny Boyle, to raise awareness of funding problems for theatres in the regions.
It was the second time she had publicly taken on Hytner this week. On Monday, at a Conservative party fundraising event,...
- 11/29/2012
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
Writers, critics and campaigners give their view of Danny Boyle's spectacular curtain-raiser to the sporting spectacular
Ai Weiwei: It was about real people
Brilliant. It was very, very well done. This was about Great Britain; it didn't pretend it was trying to have global appeal. Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics. But for China that was the only imaginable kind of international event. Beijing's Olympics were very grand – they were trying to throw a party for the world, but the hosts didn't enjoy it. The government didn't care about people's feelings because it was trying to create an image.
In London, they really turned the ceremony into a party – they are proud of themselves and respect where they come from, from the industrial revolution to now. I never saw an event before that had such a density of information about events and stories...
Ai Weiwei: It was about real people
Brilliant. It was very, very well done. This was about Great Britain; it didn't pretend it was trying to have global appeal. Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics. But for China that was the only imaginable kind of international event. Beijing's Olympics were very grand – they were trying to throw a party for the world, but the hosts didn't enjoy it. The government didn't care about people's feelings because it was trying to create an image.
In London, they really turned the ceremony into a party – they are proud of themselves and respect where they come from, from the industrial revolution to now. I never saw an event before that had such a density of information about events and stories...
- 7/28/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
"There has been no bigger icon of British design style over [the last] 50 years," says the Barbican's genial boss Nicholas Kenyon, "than James Bond." Really? Has the fictional agent 007 been a more influential design creation in the last half-century than Mary Quant's miniskirts, Terence Conran's white plates, Ron Arad's furniture, James Dyson's household products or Vivienne Westwood's frocks?...
- 6/29/2012
- The Independent - Film
London arts centre, a stalwart of ugly-building polls, is hoping its new cinema will kickstart a cultural quarter in the City
For an organisation that is trying to be more inclusive, more involving, the name "Barbican" – a defensive structure, a fortification to keep the hordes out – is possibly not ideal. "I say 'watchtower'," the arts centre's chief executive, Sir Nicholas Kenyon, says when asked to define it. "It is something that looks out on the city and beyond it."
Whatever the definition, most people know what the Barbican centre is, where it is – and even how not to get lost there. That has not always been the case but, after many uphill battles, an awful lot of people now even love the place.
On Thursday the Barbican will celebrate its 30th anniversary, entertaining guests in its enormous and unlikely tropical conservatory – with more than 2,000 species of plants and trees as well as finches,...
For an organisation that is trying to be more inclusive, more involving, the name "Barbican" – a defensive structure, a fortification to keep the hordes out – is possibly not ideal. "I say 'watchtower'," the arts centre's chief executive, Sir Nicholas Kenyon, says when asked to define it. "It is something that looks out on the city and beyond it."
Whatever the definition, most people know what the Barbican centre is, where it is – and even how not to get lost there. That has not always been the case but, after many uphill battles, an awful lot of people now even love the place.
On Thursday the Barbican will celebrate its 30th anniversary, entertaining guests in its enormous and unlikely tropical conservatory – with more than 2,000 species of plants and trees as well as finches,...
- 3/7/2012
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Designing 007: 50 Years of Bond Style, will display five decades of gadgets, sets and cars featured in James Bond films
In the 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace, MI6 is depicted as operating from London's Barbican Centre. In July, Britain's best loved spy will be making a return, but this time for an exhibition to celebrate the film franchise's 50th anniversary.
Designing 007: 50 Years of Bond Style promises to showcase five decades of gadgets, sets, costumes and cars, along with the blueprints, drawings and models that went into creating them. "It's the unseen Bond," said the show's curator, fashion historian Bronwyn Cosgrave. "We're showing the complete scope of design of a Bond film, which has never been done before."
Cosgrave has worked on the show for the past two years with Bond producers Eon, with "unprecedented access" to the Bond archive in north London. Designed by architect Ab Rogers, the...
In the 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace, MI6 is depicted as operating from London's Barbican Centre. In July, Britain's best loved spy will be making a return, but this time for an exhibition to celebrate the film franchise's 50th anniversary.
Designing 007: 50 Years of Bond Style promises to showcase five decades of gadgets, sets, costumes and cars, along with the blueprints, drawings and models that went into creating them. "It's the unseen Bond," said the show's curator, fashion historian Bronwyn Cosgrave. "We're showing the complete scope of design of a Bond film, which has never been done before."
Cosgrave has worked on the show for the past two years with Bond producers Eon, with "unprecedented access" to the Bond archive in north London. Designed by architect Ab Rogers, the...
- 3/1/2012
- by Alex Needham
- The Guardian - Film News
Programme includes theatre productions starring Juliette Binoche and Cate Blanchett, and major Bauhaus exhibition
The Barbican arts centre in London will celebrate next year's Olympics with an "unparalleled" lineup of international stars, including the actors Juliette Binoche and Cate Blanchett; stage directors Yukio Ninagawa and Peter Sellars; and the first UK performance of Einstein on the Beach, the opera that four decades ago made the reputations of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson.
The centre will host the biggest exhibition in the UK for 40 years on the Bauhaus design school, which flourished in the 1920s and early 30s.
"In 2012, London welcomes the world for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the Barbican will be at the forefront of that international moment with an extraordinary range of cultural experiences for all," said Barbican director Sir Nicholas Kenyon.
He predicted that London will "punch above its weight" in the arts festival, and promised...
The Barbican arts centre in London will celebrate next year's Olympics with an "unparalleled" lineup of international stars, including the actors Juliette Binoche and Cate Blanchett; stage directors Yukio Ninagawa and Peter Sellars; and the first UK performance of Einstein on the Beach, the opera that four decades ago made the reputations of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson.
The centre will host the biggest exhibition in the UK for 40 years on the Bauhaus design school, which flourished in the 1920s and early 30s.
"In 2012, London welcomes the world for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the Barbican will be at the forefront of that international moment with an extraordinary range of cultural experiences for all," said Barbican director Sir Nicholas Kenyon.
He predicted that London will "punch above its weight" in the arts festival, and promised...
- 5/24/2011
- by Maev Kennedy
- The Guardian - Film News
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