Headline Pictures Kristin Scott Thomas, and Tom Hollander, written by Abi Morgan, telling the story of the secret love affair between Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan. Headline Pictures is currently developing feature film Reykjavik, a drama about the Reagan/Gorbachev summit in Iceland in 1986 which effectively ended the Cold War; and a TV series based on the Martin Cruz Smith Renko novels, adapted by Adrian Hodges Headline Pictures Headline Pictures is an International Emmy-winning British film and television drama production company founded in 2005 by BAFTA nominee Stewart Mackinnon. The company has developed and produced film and television including The Man in
Mikhail Gorbachev major campaign to limit alcohol consumption, which Gorbachev—who believed it would improve health and work efficiency—oversaw. His wife keenly supported the measure. As a result, crime rates fell and life expectancy grew slightly between 1986 and 1987. The reform had significant costs to the Soviet economy, resulting in losses of up to $100 billion between 1985 and 1990. Gorbachev later considered the campaign to have been an error. In April 1986 the Chernobyl disaster occurred; in the immediate aftermath, officials fed Gorbachev incorrect information to downplay the incident. As the scale of the disaster became apparent, 336,000 people were evacuated