British Film Institute Says Change ‘Too Slow’ As It Releases Findings of Diversity Report

It will be a battle of the boys at the box office this weekend as STX’s action drama “The Gentlemen” takes on reigning champs, Sony’s “Bad Boys for Life.” “Bad Boys for Life,” the third installment in the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence-led franchise, beat expectations over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, bringing in [...

The British Film Institute has published its initial findings on how film productions in the U.K. have applied its “Diversity Standards,” a framework introduced in 2016 to address underrepresentation in the country’s film and TV industries. The standards cover several aspects of diversity including gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, gender reassignment, age [...

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