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 comp...
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