James Bond to Harry Potter film studios owner Pinewood Shepperton reveals a 68% surge in film revenues as the company turns down television contracts in favour of big screen work... more
Champers all round for the City scribes who did something to restore their battered reputation by hitting the bull's-eye on first-quarter growth yesterday, as the official number-crunchers' 0.5% came bang in line with consensus forecasts... more
Money manager BlackRock - one of the biggest shareholders in British companies - paid its chief executive Laurence Fink $27 million in salary and bonus last year, it has emerged... more
Mohamed Fayed is mulling whether to launch a counterbid for movie studios Pinewood Shepperton after top shareholder Peel Holdings agreed a £96 million takeover with the board... more
On Tuesday Shell announced it will give over one acre of its six-acre South Bank site for temporary use, while plans to redevelop most of the site are hatched... more
The pain keeps on coming for investors in CPP Group. Shares in the identity theft protection group plunged 20p to 130p today after the company warned that profits beyond next year would be hit by an investigation from the City watchdog... more
It's been a tough few weeks for Jon Pain. One minute he is being lined up to replace Hector Sants as interim head of the Financial Services Authority... more
Pinewood Shepperton chairman Michael Grade clashes with dissident investor Richard Bernstein, who demands he resign in a face-to-face showdown during film studios' AGM... more
Pinewood chief executive Ivan Dunleavy expects the studios to be hosting a string of blockbusters through 2010 as the British film industry picks up again... more
On Property: A meeting in the austere offices of the Crown Estate, just off Regent Street, holds a showdown between the estate and its 1,300 fearful tenants of property it wishes to sell... more
Film studios group Pinewood Shepperton has had its planning application for a £200 million “living film sets” expansion turned down by the local council ... more
The Pinewood, Shepperton and Teddington studios group has reported a 55% slump in half-year profits following the recent screenwriters' and actors' disputes in America.... more
Pinewood Shepperton is looking forward to more Hollywood studios being able to commit themselves to shooting blockbusters at its UK facilities ... more
Congratulations to Jeffrey Robinson for his ghosting skills. For he has caught perfectly the gruff, proud and sporadically aggrieved voice of Gerald Ronson in an autobiography of the property developer published this week. Gerald Ronson: Leading From The Front — My Story (Mainstream £18.99) reads as if the great man himself barked his life story into a Dictaphone, had his PA type it up, and then sent to the printers with strict orders that not a word be changed ... more
So what's got into Mervyn King? Months of fuming and frustration at the posturing and point-scoring by politicians finally seem to have got the better of the Bank of England Governor - hence, at last, he has spoken his mind. He can do so in the knowledge his position is nigh impregnable.... more
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