Guardian article

Hollywood and TV put the squeeze on UK's low-budget film-makers summary

• Smaller movies and productions are finding it much harder to get into cinemas and big screens due to a new trend for 'major-budget' blockbusters.
• UK films costing from £500,000 to about £30m to make fell from 77 to 60 between 2014 and 2015. This is the lowest number made since 2006 (according to BFI).
• The number of small to mid-sized budget co-productions, fell from 37 to 30.
•  pressure is being increased due to the boom in big-budget drama productions, especially Netflix productions.
• Most high end drama's now has a minimum of a £1m budget an episode so that the quality and the experience is very high. 

For revision, try to tie this in to how it may impact pre-production.

This impacts preproduction as smaller indie movies and productions may feel pressured to become 'major budget' productions. This would make preproduction very tricky as smaller companies would struggle to get the fundings.