‘Northanger Abbey’: Collapse Of $9M Jane Austen Indie Film Prompts Call For Pay Protections For Crew

Article excerpt

EXCLUSIVE: Bectu, the creative industry union, has called for better pay protections for freelancers after a contemporary adaptation of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey collapsed, owing crew members potentially hundreds of thousands of pounds. Deadline revealed on Monday that Northanger Abbey, a £7M ($9M) production mounted in the UK by a team of inexperienced U.S. producers, […]