Notes on the guardian article

Domestic UK Films:

• Costing from around £500,00 to about £30m to make
• mid-to-low-budget film industry
• Hollywood movies have considerably larger budgets in comparison

Small to mid-sized co productions:

• Guaranteed a berth in the modern cinema market.
• Funded by mostly European producers, an example of this is the film The Lobster, And I 

Hollywood studios:

• Under 20 films produced in 2015
• After the last financial crisis Hollywood were able to increase budgets on franchises and 'superhero stuff'
• A top executive at Hollywood studios stated that its difficult for smaller films as there isn't many 'breakout successes'

Big Budget Dramas:

• Netflix spent £100m on co-producing their hit show "The Crown"
• Netflix revealed it has over 90 original productions underway in Europe alone
• Sky has around 80
• There is a changing focus in the film industry as pressure is being ramped up by the boom in big-budget drama

UK film production companies to "glossy dramas":

• Glossy dramas made by US companies have cost £500m a year. By contrast UK domestic films per year has been as low as £198 million
• The lowest level since 2007
• Glossy shows costing at least £1 million an episode and the quality and experience is very high