Jonathan Stuart-Brown
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Comment on: Pinewood Shepperton expands into Asia
This is going to put 95% of british based film workers out of work. Gisela Stuart MP has called it a "disturbing" development. The Government should refer Pinewood-Shepperton PLC to the Competition Commission and get its monopoly from 2002 examined against the BRITISH national interest not the MALAYSIAN and CHINESE national interest. Since the monopoly the value has fallen from £97 million in 2002 to under £60 million. It has consistently under-performed The FTSE 100. It is a business basketcase with shareholders ONLY interested in the land values the business is on in The UK. ITS STUBBORN AND ANTI-BRITISH REFUSAL TO EXPAND AROUND THE UK INTO THE REGIONS OFFERING MONEY AND LAND has severely weakened British film making and its future. ITS SELLING THE FAMILY SILVER not just outside Britain but outside The EU will finish it. Gordon Brown should sack Peter mandelson now and put Gisela Stuart MP in his place. This is the only MP who has barked over this threat to UK film making and all the Hollywood tentpole movies made here because of the people who built it , not the present management and shareholders. Pinewood and Shepperton workers are very worried ! www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com
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Comment on: Pinewood's $327m expansion plans rejected
Gisela Stuart MP for Edgbaston in Birmingham is formulating a package too good for Pinewood shepperton PLC to refuse to relocate the expansion, bigger and bolder, to Longbridge in The West Midlands which has 400 acres suitable for this. This South Bucks appeal, which is political lobbying now, is dead in the water but will lead to more Pinewood Studio sites across the UK so is good news for the domestic filmworkers. Many other West Midland and Black Country MPs are championing the move to Birmingham at Longbridge and sister sites. Pinewood can have their houses, theme park a la Universal Studios Tour, more houses, film sets on a scale not envisioned in the original 100 acre plan, more houses, more public finance, more houses and yes more houses. The houses and the revenue were the key to this plan in the first place. Now they can have them and also ensure workers their jobs in Iver Heath as the finances for the expansion and PLC just got much sounder. As you know Save the British Film Industry wants a minimum 15 acre film factory facility in EVERY county in the UK, preferably all part of The Pinewood Studios brandname until it is as loved and public finance guaranteed as the NHS across The UK. Jonathan Stuart-Brown www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com
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Comment on: UK government to back new film centre
Actually it is a great day for The London Film Industry and The South East Film Industry which has constantly squandered the creative and blue collar talent in the UK and always needs huge state subsidy to cover the failure to be economically viable. It is another point in the determined roadmap of The South-East Club to ensure that a British Film Industry can never exist and that less than 2% of even The South-East can ever even apply to participate. If there was a state-of-the-art 200 acre factory in The West Midlands and 15 acre sites the size of Elstree (which gave us Star Wars) in every county from Cornwall to Scotland, and from West Wales to East Anglia THEN private investment, business acumen, The West Midland genius manufacturing skill (Rolls Royce, Jaguar, LandRover, Aston Martin, MG, Cadburys, the biggest jewellry quarter in Europe) would flood in. This South-East Club is heading for an iceberg like The Titanic with Pinewood Shepperton starting to move the jobs to Canada, and plans to put them in China and Malaysia. Let us hear no more of BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY WHEN YOU MEAN SOUTH-EAST MONOPOLY. www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com
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Comment on: Pinewood Shepperton sees profit slump by 55%
Pinewood Shepperton PLC share price market capitalisation is under £60 million today. This is less than Birmingham City FC sale price, less than Cristiano Ronaldo's sale price, less than a medium sized budget movie using the studios. On October 21 if South Bucks District Planning refuse Pinewood Studios expansion plan on 100 acres of greenbelt land, then this can be a huge crisis for British based film making and British based filmworkers. The share price has fallen as the market has risen. The share price when it embarked on this planning application was £2.90 but is now under £1.30. A takeover by even a moderately rich person could turn Pinewood Studios, Shepperton Studios and Teddington studios into a private home convenient for West London or make £2500 million from building houses on the land. Pinewood Studios' Board and The Government could consider the proposal from savethebritishfilmindustry.com to consider relocating the expansion to cheaper land with no planning issues such as ex-industrial sites such as Longbridge, Jaguar, Landrover in the West Midlands. This can literally save British based film making, build 200 not 20 sets including Pyramids and Sci-fi, take over 50% of all global film and Tv production in any language based on much lower cost and much better production quality. Jonathan Stuart-Brown
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Comment on: Where have all the screenwriters gone?
See you in Cheltenham Phil. Superb article. Having said that NEVER despise people who PAY you to option screenplays and develop fillms. Indeed pray God blesses and multiples them ! A truly golden era, a purple patch of UK based film-making is on the way: genius stories and core ideas; magnificently manufactured by actors and crew. Jonathan Stuart-Brown
