(1) Just months later, Grade popped up fronting a private-equity backed bid for Pinewood from the Rank Group.
(2) We’re going to splice this together with a tweet from Tory MP David Gauke this week in which he unwittingly revealed that the Star Wars set at Pinewood Studios features a brand new Death Star .
(3) Other joint venture deals, designed to give the Pinewood name a global footprint, have also created Pinewood Toronto Studios and Pinewood Malaysia Iskandar Studios, with the latter due to open in 2013.
(4) Pinewood Shepperton said that it will "now take time to review the decision in detail".
(5) Parts of previous Star Wars films were shot in studios steeped in British cinematic history, including Elstree, Shepperton, Leavesden, Ealing and Pinewood Studios.
(6) Shares in Pinewood, which is chaired by former ITV executive chairman Michael Grade, rose to a 12-month high of 211p on Thursday morning on news of a potential bidding war for the business.
(7) From six captures of Drosophila melanogaster carried out in three different habitats (cellar, vineyard, and pinewood) in two different seasons of the year (spring and autumn), 60 eye-colour mutations were isolated, which were reduced to 29 loci by means of allelism tests within and between populations.
(8) "The company's investment in the Project Pinewood land and costs incurred for the planning application are not material to the long term prospects of the company," said Pinewood in a statement.
(9) Abrams's film is reportedly shooting from mid-May to September this year, mainly at London's Pinewood studios, for a Christmas 2015 release.
(10) Other joint venture deals, designed to give the Pinewood brand a global footprint, have resulted in the creation of Pinewood Toronto Studios and Pinewood Malaysia Iskandar Studios, with the latter due to open in 2013.
(11) In the event, Cameron's visit to Pinewood, where he was expected to amplify his remarks, was a non-event.
(12) Pinewood is home to a range of productions including the next Clash of the Titans film starring Avatar actor Sam Worthington and TV shows including Dancing On Ice, The Weakest Link and My Family.
(13) "The Pinewood brand is so well recognised in the global film industry and together there is a great opportunity to build an excellent facility that will attract the very best producers," said Jim Pace, managing partner at RiverRock.
(14) Pinewood has been working on the project since 2007 but has encountered stiff opposition at every stage of the planning process as it involves the development of a large amount of green belt land in Buckinghamshire.
(15) Now Latino Review quotes a source suggesting the ship's interior has already been completed at Pinewood, where director JJ Abrams will shoot Star Wars: Episode VII early next year.
(16) Pinewood studios has scrapped its £200m plan to build a 100-acre set in Buckinghamshire that aimed to rival Hollywood for the latest blockbuster films.
(17) The 75-year-old business is planning an ambitious £20m Project Pinewood expansion at its studios in Buckinghamshire that will see it build new facilities and sets on a par with Hollywood.
(18) The board of Pinewood, led by former ITV executive chairman Michael Grade , said Peel had been a supportive shareholder and the takeover proposal provided the business with the "long-term stability it needs to build on the success of the past few years".
(19) "Peel represents a long-term strategic partner for Pinewood in continuing to grow and develop the business."
(20) More like "Chinewood" – as in China plus Pinewood – David Cameron told reporters last December .
Plantation
Definition:
(n.) The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
(n.) The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.
(n.) An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
Example Sentences:
(1) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
(2) I cannot see anything before October, or even the end of the year, because there remain some difficult topics to resolve.” Lozano is most intriguing on two things: the issue of justice, and what he sees as a potential impasse over economic policy and the role of multinational corporations, especially those wanting to extract Colombia’s significant riches in gold, emeralds, coal, hydrocarbons and minerals, or turn grassland into palm oil plantations.
(3) Logging, cattle farming and soy plantations are key, plus the increased construction of dams and road, and shifting patterns of farming for local people and mining (for diamonds, bauxite, manganese, iron, tin, copper, lead and gold).
(4) "In our last golden age, we built an opera house with plantation money.
(5) This article examines a remarkable case of massive sterilization of approximately 1,500 workers in Costa Rica, due to exposure to a toxic nematicide called DBCP 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane), applied in large commercial banana plantations.
(6) There's also a new edict from the central forestry ministry whereby communities will be able to bulldoze up to a fifth of the forest in their locality for agriculture or plantation use.
(7) "Even in very well established coffee plantations and farms, we are hearing more and more stories of impacts."
(8) Communities are also destroyed as people who have lived off the forest’s rich resources for generations often do not own the land and are displaced to make way for new plantations.
(9) If it continues at this rate all that will be left in 20 years is a few fragmented areas of natural forest surrounded by huge manmade plantations.
(10) The report comes just a week after the first cases of ash dieback in the wider environment – outside of nurseries and plantations – was found in Wales .
(11) Colbeck told the Australian the protected listing was a “sham” because it locked up areas of plantation timber, as well as pristine old-growth forest.
(12) It does feel like British chocolate is making a renaissance after being in the doldrums for a few decades.” As well as its network of shops, Hotel Chocolat owns a cocoa plantation on St Lucia, which is home to a luxury hotel where a two-week stay costs up to £10,000.
(13) To watch more videos in this series please click here From there, we head south into the countryside where the mega-highways give way first to single-lane roads through rolling hills and then, steeper slopes of eucalyptus plantations.
(14) These films were a blithe rebuttal of the critic Edward Said’s insight that, in a novel like Mansfield Park, the “English” story necessarily concealed the story, located elsewhere but inextricable from the main narrative, of a West Indian sugar plantation.
(15) No dental fluorosis was observed in deer collected at Medway Plantation, but mild dental fluorosis was observed in a significant number of deer collected at Mount Holly Plantation.
(16) Saragih, one of nine children, was born in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, where his parents worked on an oil palm plantation carved out of the forest by a large company.
(17) The smelter was located on Mount Holly Plantation in South Carolina, and concentrations of skeletal fluoride in the deer collected at Mount Holly increased approximately five-fold 3 yr after the operation began.
(18) Some plantation companies, prompted by their customers, have promised to stop destroying the rainforest.
(19) Two strains of aerobic and mesophilic microorganisms were isolated from palm-tree plantation sand.
(20) In our dog days this was a favoured spot, a conifer plantation where he could do no harm, a springy floored place without seasons where a wee up a tree was all he could leave behind.