The UK Film Council is being wound down – so could this be the final curtain for the soap opera that is the British film industry, or is it just what it needs?
If one were to dramatise the history of the British film industry, it probably wouldn't be a film at all. A soap opera would suit it better. How else to frame this litany of false dawns and hubristic triumphs; ignominious collapses and agonised soul-searching? On and on the drama runs, dragging so much history in its wake that certain incidents start repeating themselves, and the latest cliffhanger can look suspiciously similar to the last.
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Friday 8 October 2010
Monday 4 October 2010
The UK film industry in statistics
The UK film industry is bucking the recession, according to the UK Film Council. Find all the key data here
The UK Film Council has released its annual statistical yearbook in fully digital format. For the first time, you can access data on the UK film industry quickly and easily, using their searchable website.
Despite the financial crisis, 2009 was a bumper year for UK cinemas, with a record box office of £944m and one of the best admissions figures since 1971 (174 million). British films took a 7% share of the global market, and independent UK films took a record 8.2% share of the domestic market.
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https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgdO92JOXxAOdEFtVFgyV0ZlU0VpQUVrbTZrV25YM2c#gid=3
The UK Film Council has released its annual statistical yearbook in fully digital format. For the first time, you can access data on the UK film industry quickly and easily, using their searchable website.
Despite the financial crisis, 2009 was a bumper year for UK cinemas, with a record box office of £944m and one of the best admissions figures since 1971 (174 million). British films took a 7% share of the global market, and independent UK films took a record 8.2% share of the domestic market.
Click on the title or link below for more details...
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgdO92JOXxAOdEFtVFgyV0ZlU0VpQUVrbTZrV25YM2c#gid=3
UK film-makers 'frittering away millions'
British producers warned they must learn to make movies on the cheap if the domestic industry is to survive...this is also true of A level Media Studies students...
The British film industry is haemorrhaging so much money that it will not survive unless it changes its ways. Vast sums are being frittered away on needless production costs and most films recoup only a fraction of their multimillion-pound budgets.
This warning comes from Chris Jones, film-maker and head of the London Screenwriters' Festival, Europe's biggest gathering of writers, at which the issue will be debated later this month.
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The British film industry is haemorrhaging so much money that it will not survive unless it changes its ways. Vast sums are being frittered away on needless production costs and most films recoup only a fraction of their multimillion-pound budgets.
This warning comes from Chris Jones, film-maker and head of the London Screenwriters' Festival, Europe's biggest gathering of writers, at which the issue will be debated later this month.
Find out more by clicking on the title...
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