“The Keith Allen directed documentary Unlawful Killing, that claims that Diana was murdered in a plot involving her father-in-law Prince Philip, will not be released after producers failed to secure insurance to protect distributors against legal action” under UK and French libel laws.
Tag: 07.05.12
Stalled Construction Of Hamburg’s Flashy New Concert Hall Can Begin Again
“Hamburg ended a row Thursday with the firm building a concert hall” – the Elbphilharmonie, designed by starchitects Herzog and de Meuron and intended to be a tourist attraction in its own right (à la Sydney Opera House) as well as a cultural mecca – “[that is] already years behind schedule and millions over budget.”
Atom Egoyan On Directing His First Chinese Opera
“I think I was really aware of being able to use a different dramaturgy than I would with a Western opera. … It’s not naturalist by any means. It’s very expository and that was one of the huge challenges. … You’re also dealing with two different traditions, one [singer] is coming from Beijing opera, one is coming from Sichuan opera, and they have their own very different gestures and different ways of approaching character work.”
London’s Shard Opens With Empty Floors And Sagging Rents
“Superstar architect Renzo Piano calls the European Union’s new tallest building a ‘vertical city’, but … [the] elongated glass pyramid, built atop a train station in a scruffy neighbourhood near the Thames, will open with 26 floors of vacant office space, and developers have to fill it at a time when rents are at the flattest in at least 50 years.”
Report: Big Increase In Big-Screen Movie Theatres
“The tally of digital large screens in movie theaters around the world is set to hit 2,600 by 2016, up from the 653 installed by the end of 2011.”
Alternative Endings (47 Of ‘Em) That’s Hemingway
“A new edition of “A Farewell to Arms,” which was originally published in 1929, will be released next week, including all the alternate endings, along with early drafts of other passages in the book. The new edition is the result of an agreement between Hemingway’s estate and Scribner, now an imprint of Simon & Schuster.”
European Parliament Kills Anti-Global Piracy Bill
“More than three years in the making and open for signing until May 2013, ACTA exports on participating nations an intellectual-property enforcement regime resembling the one in the United States. Among other things, the accord demands governments make it unlawful to market devices that circumvent encryption, such as devices that copy encrypted DVDs without authorization.”
Average London Theatre Ticket Now Costs Nearly £47
“When focusing purely on the commercial West End, the average face value of a ticket was £46.96, an increase of 2.4% on 2010, and £43.12 in the subsidised theatres, an increase of 6.3% on 2010.”
Seventeen Theatres Added To UK Endangered Theatres List
“Despite the new additions, the overall number of buildings on the list has reduced from 56 to 49 in the last year, with a number of high-profile venues removed from the register.”
Under Pressure, London’s Old Vic Theatre Halts Intern Program
“London’s Old Vic Theatre is to suspend one of its unpaid internship programmes after coming under pressure from unions and Arts Council England to pay participants the national minimum wage.”