Articles by Adrian Pennington

Behind the Scenes: Kandahar

A Gerard Butler action movie is the first Hollywood production to be filmed entirely in Saudi Arabia and the first to shoot in the country’s majestic, barren and hitherto off-limits AlUla region, writes Adrian Pennington.

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Behind the Scenes: Eurovision 2023

Speed dates, strict monitoring bubbles, world-first lighting effects and a stage that resembles a giant hug – welcome to the team embracing Eurovision 2023 from the heart of Liverpool to the soul of Ukraine. Adrian Pennington reports.

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Behind the Scenes: Blue Lights

The ‘anti-Line of Duty’, Blue Lights is a gritty cop drama set in Belfast, but with plenty more to it than initially meets the eye, writes Adrian Pennington.

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If TikTok is killed off, how long will short form video live?

As unlikely as it may seem, the noose is tightening around Chinese-owned social media phenomenon TikTok. Were it to be banned outright, what impact would this have on the short form video creator community? Adrian Pennington investigates…

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MSG Entertainment proposes a new entertainment medium, the ’MSG Sphere’ in London

MSG Sphere: Not only in Vegas

Immersive experience venues are changing the face of live events and the Madison Square Garden Sphere aims to top the lot by creating a new entertainment medium, writes Adrian Pennington

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Pinocchio: animation is art

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Behind the Scenes

Guillermo del Toro and the film’s heads of department discuss crafting the stop-motion version of the classic fable.

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Streaming vs cinema: What does the future hold for film?

Back in 2019, Netflix released data claiming that 45 million accounts – nearly a third of its total subscribers – had streamed the Sandra Bullock thriller Bird Box in its first week on the platform, a record for a Netflix film.

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Behind The Scenes: Heartstopper

Hollyoaks with an art school twist: DOP Diana Olifirova explains how Netflix teen drama Heartstopper wears its heart on its sleeve.

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Behind the scenes: Boiling Point

Stephen Graham is a chef with a simmering temper in a feature length one-take kitchen drama filmed at a real-life restaurant. Director Philip Barantini and cinematographer Matthew Lewis explain how it was done.

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Jensen Huang: Nvidia co-founder

Nvidia: Virtual worlds will crop up like websites

Nvidia thinks it has the fabric for building the metaverse on a larger than planet scale.

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