Katie Spencer

United Kingdom

News Correspondent at Sky News

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Articles

From niche to a billion pound industry: How immersive events have taken over

1 week ago | mkfm.com | Katie Spencer

From shows built around obvious fan bases - such as Mamma Mia! The Party - to those working with established intellectual property, including Squid Game: The Experience, the UK has proven to be a world leader when it comes shows that make audiences feel part of the action, rather than just observers. Little Lion Entertainment are the team behind two shows currently running in the UK: Pac-Man Live in Manchester and the Crystal Maze Live in London.
'A gold rush moment' for immersive events

1 week ago | msn.com | Katie Spencer

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Director Danny Boyle on how 28 Years Later could be seen as an allegory for Brexit

1 week ago | news.sky.com | Katie Spencer

Director Danny Boyle has said his latest film 28 Years Later could be seen as an allegory for Brexit. Boyle's original zombie horror, 28 Days Later, was a groundbreaking film which revitalised the genre. Now, his follow-up 28 Years Later gives an insight into how much of humanity is still standing almost three decades after the deadly Rage virus took hold. "It's a very ambitious picture of what's happened to the British mainland 28 years after the original infection," he tells Sky News.
Director Danny Boyle on how 28 Years Later could be seen as an allegory for Brexit

1 week ago | sabrasradio.com | Katie Spencer

Boyle's original zombie horror, 28 Days Later, was a groundbreaking film which revitalised the genre. Now, his follow-up 28 Years Later gives an insight into how much of humanity is still standing almost three decades after the deadly Rage virus took hold. "It's a very ambitious picture of what's happened to the British mainland 28 years after the original infection," he tells Sky News.
Director Danny Boyle on how 28 Years Later could be seen as an allegory for Brexit

1 week ago | msn.com | Katie Spencer

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Beyonce rides into town for London leg of Cowboy Carter tour

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Katie Spencer

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Beyonce rides into town for London leg of Cowboy Carter tour

3 weeks ago | news.sky.com | Katie Spencer

Denim chaps and hot pants aren't most people's go-to outfit for standing outside on a drizzly June day in London but Beyonce fans with tickets to her Cowboy Carter tour joked they were enjoying their very own "rain-aissance". Referencing the singer's 7th studio album, for Wilfy - originally from Brazil - the weather wasn't going to dampen his spirits. "We came to rock and this time I'm going to see her 5 times, so on Saturday I'll be back.
Mountainhead: Succession writer Jesse Armstrong's new film takes aim at tech billionaires

4 weeks ago | news.sky.com | Katie Spencer

Succession writer Jesse Armstrong says he hopes his new film about toxic tech billionaires can be a receptacle for anyone who is "feeling wonky about the world". Now making his film directorial debut with Mountainhead, starring Steve Carell and Jason Schwartzman, Armstrong has shifted his focus from cut-throat media moguls to a group of billionaire friends meeting up to compare bank balances against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis they appear to have stoked.
The 'scary spotlight' on music stars amid Kneecap terror charge

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Katie Spencer

Before the amps are even switched on in Brockwell Park, there's been a lot of noise about who should or shouldn't be performing. Before that, there had been calls for festivals to reconsider booking the band over their political stances, and several have done, which prompted artists like Brian Eno, the Mystery Jets and CMAT to sign an open letter accusing Westminster and the British media of a campaign to "remove Kneecap from the public eye".
Sean 'Diddy' Combs: What it was like to follow 'the Pied Piper of partying'

1 month ago | news.sky.com | Katie Spencer

In 1990s and early 2000s New York, Sean "Diddy" Combs was the person to be seen with. Now on trial in Manhattan, his hair grey, his beard grown, it's hard to imagine that he was "the Pied Piper… of the most elite level of partying of that time" - but that's how Amy DuBois Barnett describes him. She was the first Black-American woman to run a major mainstream magazine in the US, and based in Manhattan at a time when hip hop was at its zenith. "Urban culture really ran the city," she says.