BFI, Government unveil plans for future of British film industry. Both the BFI and the Government have today published responses to Lord Smith’s film policy review “A Future for British Film”.
The BFI has published its future plans in a document entitled New Horizons for UK Film, and announced that they will focus on three “strategic priorities” that arose from Lord Smith’s review. These are as follows: “Supporting the future success of British film”, which will receive £28.2 million in funding; “Expanding education opportunities and boosting audience choice”, which will see investment of £17 million per year; and “Unlocking film heritage for everyone in the UK to enjoy”, for which the BFI has earmarked £3 million. The 28.2 million set aside for filmmaking includes £16.5m for production, £4m for Development, £2m for Talent, £4.5m for Skills and Business Development and £1.2m for international activity. With these resources, the BFI hopes to: Is Kickstarter revolutionising the film industry? Phil Davis has a DVD library at his London home, with space reserved for a particular kind of movie.
After a 40-year career, starring in everything from mod classic Quadrophenia to TV’s Whitechapel, the veteran actor with the wolfish grin is still lending his talents to low-budget British films. “That’s my thing, small movies about real life. Human stories. And most of them will never make it into a cinema because cinemas are full of superhero films. So you do them knowing they’ll probably end up on DVD, and when they do, you just put them with the others in the library. British film on the crest of a new wave. At Cannes, in May, there was anxious talk.
Of the 70-plus features showcased at the film festival only two of them were British. Queen honoured with Bafta award for film and TV support. 4 April 2013Last updated at 17:40 ET.
Mark Kermode: Give us proper cinemas, not multiplex sheds. Picture this: You’re sitting in screen 15 in some faceless warehouse of a multiplex cinema, waiting for the main feature to start.
You’ve shelled out the best part of ten quid for your ticket (more if you incurred the “online booking charge” that attends internet pre-purchase) and most of those around you have spent the same again on industrial-sized vats of overpriced popcorn and syrupy soft drinks, which they are now slurping and crunching noisily. Film-run-hide-its-the-invasion-of-the-multiplexes-8390598. It's for that reason that many cinemagoers choose to watch their films, whether box-office hits such as Skyfall or arty Romanian abortion dramas, in the UK's independent cinemas.
Venues such as the Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds and Manchester's Cornerhouse. Combining good film with – often – good beer, wine and food, non-multiplexes such as the Everyman Group's have thrived on being places you'd actually like to spend time in. Often for the same price as the Odeon. Which is why the news that the 80-venue chain Cineworld is to buy the indie chain Picturehouse for £47m wasn't that much of a surprise. It gives it access to the disenfranchised film lovers keen to see upmarket releases. The Fall of the Multiplex. The multiplex's rise in the mid-1970s was not unlike that of a dictator, seizing upon a popular movement - in this case New Hollywood - and aligning itself with one of the key facets of the movement - the blockbuster culture fostered by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas - before quickly revealing its true, ulterior motive.
These were not to be magisterial movie houses with enough screens for not just Spielberg's and Lucas's popcorn fare, but for their less commercial cohorts, such as Martin Scorsese and William Friedkin. Say-a-long-goodbye-to-the-multiplex-2003094. If you're looking for a sign that the age of Odeon is over, the current bizarre vogue for tiny cinemas is as good a place as any to start.
Here it's a case of the smaller, the better as various shacks, caravans and sheds pop up across the land, vying for the title of the world's smallest cinema and offering viewers an intimate film experience. At Brighton festival last month, a 4ft square, two-seater cinema shed was installed at the bottom of a garden where it showed, appropriately, the earliest film version of Alice in Wonderland.
Earlier in the year, South London art collective artinavan took over a stall at Brixton market, where behind some hastily hung blackout curtains, it showed an edifying programme of shorts and animated features. And at the Tatton Park biennial in Cheshire, artist Annika Eriksson is currently showing her film about identity in a six-seat, battery-powered cinema housed inside a caravan. Festivals are slowly getting in on the film act, too.
Secretcinema.org. How many UK films get a cinema release? In response to last week’s blog looking at the number of films made in the UK, Jason Attar asked how many of the feature films made in the UK actually reach cinemas.
Thanks Jason, good question. In summary, between 2007 and 2010: 35% of UK films are released in UK cinemas within two years of principle photographyA film’s budget is a strong indicator of how likely it is to get shown in cinemasOne in five UK films made for under £500,000 reached UK cinemas within two years of being shot70% of UK films with budgets over £5 million are theatrically distributed in the UKJust under half of UK films cost under £500,000Of the UK films which didn’t receive a theatrical release, 65% were sold on DVD This chart shows how many UK films shot between 2007-2010 were theatrically distributed (i.e. were shown in commercial cinemas to the paying public) within two years of starting principle photography.
Bigger budget films are creatively better. The Multiplex vs. The Indie Cinema. Watching a film in a theatre is all about the cinematic ‘experience’; the big screen, the surround sound, the effects of IMAX or 3D (or even both).
There is a wide variety of cinemas to choose from in the UK, but does the type of theatre actually make much of a difference? When it comes to the multiplex vs. the independent cinema, is one really better than the other? Film critic Mark Kermode went through so much trouble while queuing at his local cinema complex that in the introduction to his book, ‘The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex’, he was moved to write: ‘I was suddenly filled with a vision of a great gaping void… This was presumably the void of which Nietzsche was thinking when he warned us that “when you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks right back into you.”
If money is the only consideration, then then there are ways of getting around it. Cultural Cinema Exhibition in the 21st Century. In this article, Mark Cosgrove, Watershed's Head of Programme, examines the cultural significance of cinema and its status as an artform. On the 2nd February Watershed hosted an event called Beyond the Box Office that took a closer look at the UK Film Council’s commissioned research into the relationship between film and culture. It is ironic that just when the UKFC (much criticised for focusing mainly on the industrial aspects of film) is being wound down they should be leading the debate on film as culture. Now, with responsibility for film policy in flux, it is essential that we engage with this debate and articulate a coherent policy response to film’s cultural impact. Phoenix - Cinema, Art, Cafe Bar. Independent Cinema Office.
Problems Associated with Movie Marketing" The trickiest part of movie marketing is that every movie is different. Every film is its own standalone product with its own potential market segment. Just because your last kid's movie was a huge hit doesn't mean that audiences will come in droves to the next one. There's no formula for success, so marketers must be creative to grab the public's attention. Moviemaking is an inherently risky business. Movie marketers try to alleviate some of that risk by heavily promoting expensive films. Newsbeat - Illegal downloading: Film workers reveal piracy fears. By Steve Holden Newsbeat reporter 7 July 2011 Last updated at 06:53 Share Newsbeat has seen figures suggesting illegal movie downloads have risen by nearly 30% in the last five years - but how is that affecting the industry?
An illegal downloader told us it's too expensive to go to the cinema and that he's not making any money from what he does. Music and film industries winning war on piracy, says report - News - Music. Music piracy has plummeted by 82.5 per cent in Norway in the last four years, according to Norwegian research body Ipsos MMI. There has been a dramatic fall in the number of songs illegally copied, from 1.2 billion in 2008 to 210 million last year. The number of films and television programmes being illegally downloaded has also slumped by more than a half.
There were 260 million pirated movies and TV shows downloaded in 2008 but that figure has fallen to 120 million. Piracy and the Future of the Film Industry. I recently came across this tweet from Duncan Jones, the director of the little film that could, ‘Moon’: “Dear BitTorrenters... so pleased Moon is popular with u; 40,000 active seeds cant be wrong! One thing. Warp Films: the essential releases. Before Warp Films there was Warp Records, a Sheffield-born music label that made an immediate impact on British culture with their experimental electronic music. The name Warp was synonymous with low budgets, working quickly and spontaneously, and a fierce commitment to talented and innovative artists. Founding partners Rob Mitchell (who sadly died in 2001) and Steve Beckett, enlisting the help of producer Mark Herbert, founded Warp Films with the same pioneering principles. Mark Kermode interviews Mark Herbert. Warp Films' new breed of Brit flick. 7 October 2011Last updated at 02:57 By Ian Youngs Entertainment reporter, BBC News Warp Films made (clockwise from top left): This Is England, Tyrannosaur, Four Lions and Submarine With This Is England, Submarine and Four Lions, Sheffield-based Warp Films has become a major force in British film with a vision for innovative, uncompromising films.
Comedy terrorists, 1980s skinheads, lovelorn teenagers, vengeful ex-paratroopers and evil cults - if the subjects of Warp's films have anything in common, it is difficult to spot. Tim Bevan on The Strucutre of Working Title. Working Title Films. UK Film Council hands over funding control to BFI. 1 April 2011Last updated at 07:59 By Tim Masters Entertainment and arts correspondent, BBC News. UK films urged to be more 'mainstream' in new report.
11 January 2012Last updated at 16:28 Ken Loach: "Public money should go to fund a wide variety of projects" The British film industry should back more mainstream movies, a report is expected to recommend next week. Top 10 grossing British Films. It’s great to hear that the Prime Minister, David Cameron, reckons the UK film industry should be given more lottery cash. Although his desire to see film makers produce more mainstream and cost-effective movies is a bit more contentious. According to Arts Minister Ed Vaizey, the industry was “still not as profitable as it should be for British film-makers”. G322casestudy skyfall. MI6 tracks the success of Daniel Craig's third James Bond 007 film 'Skyfall' at box-offices around the world. Forecast: 'Skyfall' Lands in U.S. Theaters After Killing Overseas. Skyfall. Mendes was approached to direct the film after the release of Quantum of Solace in 2008.
Development was suspended when MGM encountered financial troubles and did not resume until December 2010; during this time, Mendes remained attached to the project as a consultant. Rise-of-the-silverhaired-screen-older-people-take-largest-share-of-cinema-audiences-8728982. Skyfall, The Dark Knight Rises and The Hobbit help UK cinema audiences increase in 2012. IMDb - Movies, TV and Celebrities. Box Office Mojo.
Mediapastpapers. Film Studies GCE AS/A. Skip to content Film Studies Levels: Also in this section: Moving Image Awards Find qualifications and resources. Exhibition. UK Film Council - Audiences. A Field In England. England during the English Civil War. A small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by two men: O'Neil and Cutler. O'Neil (Michael Smiley), an alchemist, forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.more A Field In England is a psychedelic trip into magic and madness from Ben Wheatley - award-winning director of Down Terrace, Kill List and Sightseers.
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