Hollywood and TV put the squeeze on UK's low-budget film-makers
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/31/hollywood-and-tv-put-the-squeeze-on-uks-low-budget-film-makers A combination of an increasingly risk-averse Hollywood movie system and the global explosion in mega-budget TV drama is putting the pressure on smaller films. The number of UK films costing from £500,000 to £30m to make, fell from 77 to 60 between 2014 and 2015. Pressure is being put on film makers by shows such as Netflix’s £100m co-production The Crown. Most drama now is a minimum of £1m an episode and the quality and the experience is very high. And the way the market has changed means that is where a lot of the money and funding now is. Film production is becoming increasingly more expensive There is a lot of pressure on smaller films