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Paragraph one talk about a ilm festival and about minor film makers.

Paragraph two speaks about global expansion of large hollywood films that have been successful and how there main focus is on lower cost production in the UK.

Paragraph three focuses on the UK having mid to low budget film industry, it also speaks about the number of domestic UK films from £500,000- £30m. 

Paragraph four speaks about hollywood blockbusters made in the UK, e.g. star wars which account for the £1.6 billion feature film market, are still rocksteady with under 20 films produced. 

Paragraph five speaks about how he also cities the mechanics of the £11 billion US box office as a good example of the difficulties facing film-makers who lack big budgets, which films from the major studios take 90% of.

Paragraph six explains about the large change in the film industry, there is pressure being ramped up by the increase in big- budget drama flooding television, represented by shows such as Th Crown

Paragraph seven is about the number of scripted shows in the US having more then doubled since 2010.

- It explains how Netflix has recently revealed that it has 90 original productions under way in Europe and that Sky has 80.

-Traditional broadcasters like ITV have also raised their game.

Paragraph eight is about Richard Johnson claiming here isn't a large difference between high end television and most films these days. He says this is because most TV drama now is a minimum of £1m per episode which then makes the quality extremely high.

Paragraph nine is about the BFI saying the figure for inward productions investment in TV, mainly from the US companies nearly doubled last year which was a record. It is also mentioned that this was mainly fuelled by a tax break for glossy shows costing less then £1m an episode.

Paragraph ten was mainly focussed on the overlap of skills related to glory drama have attracted many of the UK's well known film production companies to expand into the sector. The companies from these sectors include:

- Sky's you, me and the apocalypse.

-BBC 2's London Spy, out of Africa.

-BBC 1 drama taboo and an upcoming navy seal drama.

Paragraph eleven focuses on entertainment that one said was getting out of small budget films. It also explains that the Canadian media group will now focus on producing and sourcing a reduced slate of premium films.

Paragraph twelve focuses on BFI insisting that mid budget films appear to be in decent health and it says that initial reporting sows that a number of UK domestic features being made in the first quarter this year is the same as last year.

Paragraph thirteen focuses on the distributor of films such as La La Land, Arrival and Luc Bessons forthcoming $180m valerian and the city of thousand planets said it was getting out of small budget films.

Paragraph fourteen explains about Kate Little, the managing director saying that the big budgets and creative freedom and longer cars offered by high-end TV have become a bona fide draw of talent.

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