Brexit vote may have a lot of impact on “Game of Thrones”June 23, 2016 - 14:31 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The long-running debate over whether Britain should leave the European Union has reached a crescendo in recent weeks, with both sides — the “Remain” camp and the “Leave” camp — making their final arguments this week ahead of Brexit vote. What neither side has yet accounted for, however, is the impact it could have on Game of Thrones, TIME said. According to Foreign Policy magazine, a British departure from the E.U. will see the massively popular HBO fantasy series deprived of a significant amount of funding for shooting on location. One of the show’s major shooting locations is in Northern Ireland, where last week’s epic ‘Battle of the Bastards’ was filmed. Because it films there, HBO currently benefits from subsidies from the European Regional Development Fund. A Brexit would see Northern Ireland leave the E.U. along with the rest of the U.K., and potentially cut off that source of funding for HBO’s flagship program as well as several British movies and TV shows that have benefitted from it in the recent past, FP reports. As the proud houses of Westeros continue to ponder their allegiances on screen while, the U.K. considers its own in real life, filmmakers are hoping that Thursday’s vote won’t result in a ‘Wexit.’ Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |