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18 July 2012 4:55 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Source says relations between Danny Boyle and broadcasting firm now so strained that director's trailer has extra security

Rehearsals for the £27m London 2012 opening ceremony are being disrupted by clashes between the Trainspotting director, Danny Boyle, and the company in charge of broadcasting the Olympic Games, the Guardian has been told.

Boyle, who won an Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire, brought in an independent team to stage and film the curtain-raiser, due to be seen by a global audience said to be 4 billion next Friday.

But rehearsals are being hampered by friction between his crew and Olympic Broadcasting Services (Obs), the firm that will produce thousands of hours of live sports coverage from Olympic venues.

Organisers have insisted that the teams were "working very well together", but the source said relations were now so strained that an extra ring of security had been put around Boyle's trailer within the Olympic stadium. »

- Nick Hopkins, Owen Gibson

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