It seems everyone is gunning for Hollywood’s cushy subsidies with the German government withdrawing it’s very lucrative scheme and the UK’s system under revision. I’m fairly split on the issue. On the one hand, it’s better that as many films are made in the UK as possible as it enables crew to be fully employed and keep them in-country, on the other I, as a taxpayer, don’t see why we should be subsidising Hollywood film production when they make so much money anyhow, not to mention the fact that they’re slowly squeezing more traditional British films out of the production market.
What currently consititutes a British film is so little at the moment most of Hollywood’s product easily falls inside, hell, stick a UK actor, three members of crew and a pound in and that’s it, bonafide Brit film (okay, so it’s not quite that easy, but not far off it). For most of them it’s simply being shot in the UK and, if the article about the German system, whether the money passes through some shell company here.
We certainly couldn’t afford to make the likes of the Bond films (although the next one is going overseas), the Harry Potter series or many of the other big-budget fair that Hollywood has released, so I guess the question is whether we want them here.
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