Monday 4 October 2010

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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