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Despite the pandemic shutting down production for months on end, 2020 still saw a glut of major A-list packages announced with bidding wars erupting across various markets. But as the industry splutters back to life, how far have these projects moved since then?
2020 may have been something of an annus horribilis for vast swathes of the film industry, but that didn’t stop the buzzy new packages from landing.
Even at the virtual Cannes market in June, when much of the world was still under some form of lockdown from the first COVID-19 wave and most film sets and studios were gathering dust, major A-list-heavy projects were popping in all directions (ok, mostly via Zoom pitches), with buyers not shying away.
They include additional Covid-related production awards for BFI-backed projects interrupted at the start of pandemic such as
Benediction (£341,182),
Pirates (£360,000).
Nearly all 10 titles, with the exception of
Earwig, also received £20,000 as part of pilot initiative BFI Step-up, which enabled productions to provide opportunities for production crew from under-represented groups to work on BFI-funded features
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Source: Lupus Films
‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’
Sally Hawkins, Cillian Murphy and Ken Watanabe are among the English-language voice cast of this animated feature, based on Michael Morpurgo’s bestselling children’s novel of the same name and adapted by Frank Cottrell-Boyce (
The Railway Man). It marks the feature directorial debut of both Neil Boyle, whose credits as an animator include