Northwest Costume Hire Open in Liverpool

The company that holds Liverpool’s largest collection of film, TV and theatre costumes is throwing open its doors for the next three days.

CAPITAL & CENTRIC acquires iconic Littlewoods Buildings

CAPITAL&CENTRIC has completed its acquisition of the
180,000 sq ft former Littlewoods building

Letter to brezhnev stars reunite

It was the low-budget Liverpool film that became an unlikely hit and helped create a new industry in the city.

Screen stars out in force for Clapperboard Awards 2017

Personalities from stage and screen were out in force to celebrate the achievements of young creative talent from across Merseyside.

Adlib Liverpool Open Day 2017

Adrien Brody Joins Peaky Blinders Cast- Series 4

The new series of hit gangster drama Peaky Blinders has been filming on location in Liverpool.

The streets of Toxteth have been transformed to resemble 1920s Birmingham, where the BBC drama is actually set.

Channel 4 ‘could move out of London’

Proposals on whether to move Channel 4 out of London will be considered as part of a government consultation.

Plans to privatise the TV company have been shelved, but where it spends its money is also under review, Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has announced.

Liverpool and the Silver Screen

Reel Stories is a special exhibition of more than 40 original film posters and memorabilia celebrating Liverpool’s starring role in films from the past 60 years.

A Quiet Passon wins Best Film at Gent Film

Hurricane Films’ Emily Dickinson biographical drama A Quiet Passion has been announced as this year’s Grand Prix: Best Film 2016 at Gent Film Festival in Belgium.

Shot in Belgium and the US, the film has been warmly received in the film festival circuit, with recent festival appearances in New York, Toronto, London, Vienna and Turin. Richard Brody of the New Yorker called A Quiet Passion ‘an absolute, drop dead masterwork’, whilst Michael Pattison of Indiewire called it ‘quietly masterful’.

A statement from the Gent jury read:

“After a long and passionate discussion it was decided to recognize the film which some members of the jury considered the most daring and most rigorous of the twelve films in competition: ‘A Quiet Passion’ by Terence Davies.”

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Anna Friel joins cast of new McGovern drama as it begins filming in Liverpool

Filming has begun in Liverpool this week on Jimmy McGovern’s new drama, with Anna Friel joining Sean Bean in the cast.

Six one-hour episodes of Broken (working title) are being produced by LA Productions for BBC One.

Liverpool sees flurry of filming in August

TWO major dramas are being filmed on location in Liverpool from today (Monday 15 August).

New cast confirmed for return of Safe House with filming in Liverpool

Filming on a brand new series of ITV crime drama Safe House is to begin later this month in Manchester, Liverpool and Wales.

Stephen Moyer (True Blood, The Bastard Executioner and the upcoming Fox drama series Shots Fired) will take the lead role in the 4 x 60min series produced by Eleventh Hour Films.