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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Simon Goodley

Suppliers unable to chase fees after film producer’s 50 companies are struck off

Liz Hurley
Liz Hurley filmed scenes for Alan Latham’s City Girls in 2021. There is no evidence that she was unpaid for her work. Photograph: Rich Gold/Alamy

A prolific film producer, whose projects have starred Frasier’s Kelsey Grammer and Four Weddings and a Funeral’s Anna Chancellor, has had scores of his production businesses forcibly removed from the UK’s companies register, leaving workers unable to chase unpaid fees.

Alan Latham, whose low-budget films have previously raised questions over his use of tax credits, has seen 50 of his film businesses compulsorily struck off by Companies House, according to data compiled by the film workers’ union, Bectu.

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