- The British film industry is worth £4bn
- British films that won international recognition in 2011 were The King’s Speech, The Deep Blue Sea and We Need to Talk about Kevin.
- Fewer than one in ten films go on to recover their production costs.
- Warp Films’ biggest success was Four Lions which took £3m at the box office, won festivals and did well in Germany and France.
- Warp Films’ Mark Herbert believes that low-key, low-budget films should be supported as new talent has to be supported in making them so they can get to the stage where they can pull off making a blockbuster.
- Film critic Mark Kermode would change exhibition and distribution of British films.
- I think that the government should support British film makers with tax relief and funding, and I think the money should go to all varieties of film, commercially successful films that will reach a large audience as well as ‘culturally significant’ films that may only reach a small audience as both films effect the audience and the government in different ways and should both be offered the same opportunities and advantages.
- I think that given the current political climate or more specifically the economic climate it is likely that over the next few years the British Film Industry may begin to lean much more to making films at the more extreme ends of the spectrum - more affordable low budget films or massively expensive films that will definitely make money - but less of the films that fall inbetween these two definitions.
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Britain's film industry: Closing credits - comprehesion questions
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