Film Focus: Swimming with the sharks

FILM FOCUS

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CEO Leon Clarance talks to Tahmina Mannan about trying to make money in the world of film.

Motion Picture Capital CEO Leon Clarance’s love of film started at the age of 11 when fate, or more accurately Warner Brothers, built a giant, 10-screen cinema complex right behind his house in Basingstoke. Clarance has fond memories of his first job as a cinema usher, straight after school during his gap year before Cambridge, at this brand new cinema complex: “I started off sweeping floors, and then moved on to serving Coca-Cola. I must have shown great potential because in no time I was running the pick ‘n’ mix. Then came another promotion to become head usher. “It was great. I was...

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