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  Pinewood Studios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Pinewood Studios is a major film studio location in England, approximately 20 miles west of London.
Pinewood Studios was established in 1935 by Charles Boot and J.
Both studios are linked to the media network Sohonet as part of Studiolink.
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 screenonline: Pinewood Studios Biography
The idea was to save on running costs and to create a single studio business which could cater to every kind of filmmaker's demands, however big or small.
Pinewood was closed for most of WW2 (it was used by the Government for storage).
Eventually, in March 2000, it offloaded the studio to a consortium led by former
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 Pinewood Studios - TV Studios, Television Studios
The Pinewood Studios Group is equipped with all the studio facilities that you need to produce any formula of televison show; be it light entertainment, award winning situation comedy or quiz show.
Pinewood Studios and Teddington Studios have between them 9 digital TV studios (including 5 channel presentation studios).
Both Teddington and Pinewood Studios are equipped to deal efficiently with large studio audiences of up to 480, and both Teddington and Pinewood locations have good catchment areas for audiences for TV Shows, across the age spectrum.
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 Guardian | Pinewood Shepperton to float on stock market
Pinewood Shepperton, which owns the Pinewood and Shepperton studios near London, is to go public on London's junior stock market, the Alternative Investment Market, in the summer.
In February 2002, Pinewood studios was purchased from Rank by a management team led by Michael Grade, the former Channel 4 chief executive, and Ivan Dunleavy, with the backing of 3i.
Pinewood, with five film stages, began film production in 1936 following the involvement of J Arthur Rank, and its first film was completed that year.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4893191-103676,00.html   (373 words)

  
 MI6 News :: Pinewood Studios recovers after losing James Bond
Pinewood Shepperton Plc, home to many James Bond movies said the purchase of a London television studio in April is boosting revenue as the company recovers from a slump in the British film industry - reports Bloomberg.
Pinewood Shepperton, based in Buckinghamshire in southern England, was formed in 2001 after Pinewood Studios acquired Shepperton.
Pinewood Shepperton reported a loss for the six months ended June 30 as film producers waited for the U.K. government to decide on new tax rules for the industry before signing contracts with studios.
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Pinewood was set up in 1936 by Arthur J Rank, C M Woolf and Charles Boot.
The studios, built by film mogul J. Arthur Rank in the 1930s, were sold to a group led by Michael Grade, former head of Britain's Channel 4.
Pinewood hit financial difficulties shortly after its creation, but was requisitioned during World War II to make documentaries and entered its heyday soon after peace was declared.
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 james bond multimedia | bond girls are forever at pinewood studios
Pinewood Studios opened it doors on Sunday 2nd July to a number of enthusiastic Bond fans for a day of entertainment, intrigue and amusement.
Fans were escorted through the mansion that is Pinewood upstairs to a long corridor containing lots of pictures and stills from the films that had been shot at Pinewood Studios over the years.
Pinewoods studio manager proceeded to inform fans inside the stage about the stage and how it is used.
www.jamesbondmm.co.uk /articles/bond-girls-are-forever.php   (952 words)

  
 Pinewood Studios - About Us
The Pinewood Group comprises Pinewood, Shepperton and Teddington Studios, and is the leading service provider of film and television related services across the UK.
In February 2000, Pinewood Studios was purchased from Rank by a management team jointly led by Michael Grade and Ivan Dunleavy and backed by 3i.
Pinewood Studios then purchased Shepperton Studios in February 2001 and were managed as one operation.
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 RTE Business - Pinewood studios IPO priced at £82.5m
British film studio Pinewood Shepperton, home to the James Bond and Harry Potter films, raised £46.2m sterling in its initial public offering of shares.
Pinewood said it had sold shares at 180 pence each in the flotation, at the top of the indicated price range, and the offer was 'comfortably oversubscribed' at the sale price.
Pinewood, chaired by new BBC Chairman Michael Grade, has previously said it planned to use proceeds to reduce debt to about £45m from £89.2m and to fund growth.
www.rte.ie /business/2004/0507/pinewood.html   (213 words)

  
 Pinewood Studios - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur Rank later took control of both Pinewood and Denham Film Studios which were often used by producer Alexander Korda.
Both studios are linked to the media network Sohonet.
In the meantime the other 35 filming stages and 9 television studios across the group are fully operational and open for business.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pinewood_Studios   (571 words)

  
 Pinewood & Shepperton Studios Upgrades AMS Neve DFC
Pinewood & Shepperton Studios are upgrading the 56-fader, two-position AMS Neve DFC in theater 1 to a 68-fader, three-position console.
Expansion of the DFC puts the studios on par with the major film facilities in the United States and is one of three DFC facilities in Europe.
Pinewood Shepperton continues to attract the world’s most talented film mixers including John Heywood, Gary Summers and Randy Thom, and projects such as Die Another Day, Tomb Raider 2: Lara Croft, Cradle of Life, Blackball, Cody Banks II and Jonny English.
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 Pinewood Studio - August 1985
Pinewood Studios is a name well known to film and television buffs.
Unlike the American studios that are owned by production companies, Pinewood does not produce any films of their own.
Long before Pinewood became a studio it was a country home to a wealthy Englishman.
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 BBC News | FILM | Carry On Pinewood
For more than 60 years, Pinewood Studios has been one of the most cherished stars of the British film industry.
He says Pinewood is always at the forefront of his pitch.
Both initiatives will ensure Pinewood has the means to stay at the forefront of movie-making, as well as encouraging more TV production.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/1359339.stm   (820 words)

  
 Roger Moore Official Site
Pinewood studios are Europe’s or indeed one of the world's leading Studios to come into existence and have survived strong until this day.
The first recorded owner of Heatherden Hall (later to be called Pinewood Studios) was Dr Drury Levin towards the end of the 19th-century, The second tenant was a famous cricketer KS Ranjitsinhji.
Rank made no secret of his annoyance at the inefficiency of small studios at the time and reasoned that be it a flour mill or a studio one factor is much like another with similar principles.
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 BBC - Tickets - Pinewood Studios - how to get there
Pinewood Studios has a large free car park.
Take the second exit on to Pinewood Road (sign posted Pinewood Studios) and the studios are 1 mile further on, situated on the left.
The studios are 1 mile along this road situated on your left.
www.bbc.co.uk /whatson/tickets/howto_pinewood.shtml   (296 words)

  
 Made in Pinewood: Grade to rake in millions from flotation of Independent, The (London) - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Mr Grade, 61, the chairman of the west London film studios, which merged in 2001, owns a 4.2 per cent stake in the company, which announced yesterday that it was planning to float on the main London Stock Exchange this summer.
Those include the introduction of television studios where programmes such as Anne Robinson's BBC quiz show The Weakest Link are filmed, and the merger with Shepperton, previously Pinewood's rival for more than 60 years.
In the same year, television studios were introduced at Pinewood in a bid to increase revenues.
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 BBC NEWS | Business | Pinewood buys Teddington Studios
Pinewood Shepperton, home to the Harry Potter and James Bond films, has bought Teddington Studios, another famous name of the UK film and TV industry.
Pinewood described the £2.7m ($5m) buy as a "natural extension" to its current television and sound services business.
Pinewood Shepperton was formed after a management team bought Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire from the Rank Group in 2000.
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 Pinewood Studios - Icons of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Pinewood has a strong association with heroes and superheroes of the fictional kind, too.
In more down-to-earth fashion, Pinewood was also the back drop to the Carry On films, nominated as an Icon in their own right.
In 2001, Pinewood merged with Shepperton Studios, a move that seems to have given both studios a new lease of life and has helped Pinewood to remain at the forefront of film technology, including the construction of a new underwater stage.
www.icons.org.uk /nom/nominations/pinewood-studios?b_start:int=184   (206 words)

  
 TIME Europe Magazine: The Studio Impresario -- April 1, 2002/Vol. 159 No. 13   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Still, Pinewood has been kept busy with the next James Bond flick, and Shepperton's schedule is filling up with films like the second Harry Potter movie.
Pinewood's chief overseas rivals — studios in Canada, Australia and Central Europe — allow filmmakers to trim costs, thanks to favorable exchange rates, tax breaks and cheap labor.
Two state-of-the-art digital TV studios were recently built at Pinewood at a cost of $3.56 million.
www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/printout/0,13155,901020401-220058,00.html   (650 words)

  
 Cinema Eye: Blaze at Pinewood Studios
According to the news reports, the blaze was so extensive, that it caused the roof fall in on itself causing severe damage to the facilities and props inside the studio.
The James Bond stage at Pinewood had been used as a film set to recreate scenes from the Italian city of Venice for the 21’st James Bond 007 outing.
This is the second major fire at Pinewood in 22 years.
www.cinemaeye.com /index/movienews/more/2150   (174 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | News | Willy Wonka and wizards conjure up profits for studios
The results are the first since the group, which owns Shepperton studios in Staines and Pinewood studios in Slough, floated on the stock exchange in May.
Pinewood Shepperton was formed after a management team led by chairman Michael Grade bought Pinewood studios from the Rank Group in 2000 and then purchased rival Shepperton studios in February 2001.
The company has also revealed that it is about to begin construction on two new projects - an underwater filming stage at Pinewood and the extension to the eastern workshops at Shepperton.
film.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,12589,1290607,00.html   (273 words)

  
 PWS - Pinewood Shepperton plc - Google Finance
Pinewood Shepperton plc is a provider of studio and related services to the global film and television industries.
Pinewood Shepperton says destroyed James Bond set to be rebuilt by...
studio group pinewood shepperton looks to be bouncing back from last year'sfinancial downturn as turnover has leapt by 40% to £18.7m over the first six
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 GearBox: Clients
Now head of post production at Pinewood, Hartstone reckons to have worked on "just about all of them" and was chief dubbing mixer on Bond releases including Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies, the latter earning him a Golden Reel Award – as did Aliens and The Living Daylights.
Today, Pinewood and Shepperton Studios are owned by the same holding company.
As both studios have an enviable reputation across the world for the quality of their personnel and equipment, it is obviously an arrangement that works to their mutual benefit.
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 Pinewood studios reels in its first counsel - 5 June 2006
Pinewood Shepperton, the owner of the studios where the James Bond films are made, has hired its first counsel.
In 2000 it was used by 3i to act for the private equity firm on the £62m buyout of Pinewood from Rank.
Travers then won the mandate to advise Pinewood on its 2001 acquisition of special effects outfit Shepperton, as well as the May 2004 IPO of Pinewood Shepperton, which raised more than £80m.
www.thelawyer.com /cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=120182&d=122&h=24&f=46   (298 words)

  
 Film London : Pinewood Shepperton
Pinewood Shepperton is Europe's leading film studios. The world-renowned facilities are used for major national and international film production, filmed television, studio television recording, the filming of commercials and post production sound services.
The group consists of Pinewood Studios, Shepperton Studios and Teddington Studios.
Further information about newly published authorised history of Shepperton Studios (foreword by Sir John Mills CBE and introduction by Sir Ridley Scott).
www.filmlondon.org.uk /content.asp?CategoryID=871   (160 words)

  
 Sample Contracts - UK-Buckinghamshire-Iver Heath-Pinewood Studios Lease - Pinewood Studios Ltd. and Virage Europe Ltd. ...
In particular the Occupier shall not cause risk to the health and safety of any person by neglect or misuse of any buildings or structure in the Studios, fixtures and fittings or areas used for access and services (electricity gas and water).
4.9.2 all loss or damage to any vehicle or its contents owned by or under the care, custody or control of the Occupier whilst at the Studios except to the extent that the same shall have been caused by the act, neglect or default of the Owner.
Yours faithfully ---------------------------- for and on behalf of Pinewood Studios Limited 7 9 We hereby confirm acceptance of the terms and conditions set out in the letter dated [_______________] 2000 of which this is a duplicate.
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 Pinewood Studios Celebrates 70th Anniversary With A Week Of Free Films
In celebration of Pinewood Studios prestigious 70th anniversary the studio has partnered with The Times and Vue West End to hold a week of free screenings October 1-7.
Each day, one film from each of the seven decades that the studios have been in operation will be shown.
Pinewood is now part of the Pinewood Studios Group which consists of not only Pinewood, but Shepperton and Teddington Studios too.
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 KringleQuest.com: Welcome to Pinewood Studios!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
As everybody knows, Pinewood Studios is England's biggest and most legendary motion picture facility.
Located in the little village of Iver Heath, in the area of England known as Buckinghamshire, Pinewood is best known for its world-renowned Albert R. Broccoli/007 Stage, which stands as a constant reminder of the countless number of features --- some American-made, some British-made --- that were shot here.
The Broccoli Stage honors the memory of the producer whose Eon Productions Limited was, and still is, the homebase of all 007 features, including the next one, which is scheduled for release during November 2002.
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 Pinewood Studios
'Pinewood Shepperton' offers a wide variety of 36 stages, backlots and magnificent grounds for location shooting and boasts the largest water tank in Europe as well as the largest permanent stage in the world, the 007 Stage.
The Studios are also home to a small community of companies and creative individuals working across a variety of entertainment industries.
Some of the many productions that have passed through Pinewood Shepperton over the years include Alien, Batman, Tomb Raider, Harry Potter, Saving Private Ryan, most of the 007 films and even videogames featuring live action (such as Privateer: The Darkening [1996], which James worked on in 1996 with Electronic Arts Europe).
www.jameshannigan.co.uk /pinewood.htm   (152 words)

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