The famous Twickenham Film Studios has gone into administration after having a tough three years, despite being recently used for The Iron Lady, My Week with Marilyn and War Horse.
Published by Lucy Middleton, BritEvents Contributor
@ BE_intheknowDue to celebrate its centenary next year, Twickenham studio's business will be wound down between February and June.
'We are selling it on,' Gerald Krasner told the BBC, 'everyone will then be paid in full.'
Half of the 17 studio employees have left, while the remainder are working their notice.
Opening in 1913 and built on the site of an old ice rink, the studio shot the classic Sherlock Hlmes film The Missing Rembrandt in the 1930s, two of the Beatles films, Roman Polanski's Repulsion and Alfie.
Post-production on the recent hit The Iron Lady, a Margaret Thatcher biopic starring Meryl Streep, took place at the studios, while War Horse was partly made at Twickenham.
'I think it is a real shame that Twickenham's closing.' Said key grip Rupert Lloyd Parry.
'It's nice when you work where you feel like there's a real sort of tradition of the British film industry. It's like working at Ealing, places like that.
'The film industry is buoyant at the moment, there is work coming in. There doesn't seem like there is any reason for it to shut,' Parry added.
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