{"id":542428,"date":"2026-04-21T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542428\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:22:08","slug":"bollywood-film-shoot-brings-1-2m-to-hull-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542428\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood film shoot brings \u00a31.2m to Hull economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The city has become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-humber-64596383\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a popular filming location in recent years<\/a>, with movies and series such as Victoria, Bodies, Enola Holmes, The Crown and Blitz using the Old Town area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fenton, whose firm has a production facility in Hessle, said those shoots relied on crews and equipment coming from London for a few days, &#8220;almost like the circus visiting the town and then leaving&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he hoped local facilities could be developed in order to provide employment and training for local people who might otherwise have to leave the city to pursue a career in the film and television industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve just got to get a little bit of infrastructure built,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If we could get a little bit of infrastructure with a sound stage, I think the skills would then bolt on to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city has become a popular filming location in recent years, with movies and series such as Victoria,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-542428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}