Last month the Hollywood Reporter released 10 films which Lionsgate have slated on a small budget. The list of films are here.
Lionsgate isn’t a stranger to producing independent films; it was only in 2005 that they helped produce the indie film Crash. It would be nice if more of these companies could lend some of us Brits a hand wouldn’t it?
MovieCake has noticed that there is a definitive lust for film in the streets of Yorkshire. Ask nearly anyone and they would give you a line for line quote of Bill and Ted, Wayne’s World or perhaps more respectively The Truman Show or Green Mile.
My point is, we love film, and we’d love even more for Lionsgate to pop its head over, stay for some tea, crackers and cheese and maybe help fund 10 projects over here in Blightly.
We have the talent*! We would now like a big corporation like Lionsgate to inject us with a load of cash and maybe get rid of the Grit Brit film making we’ve grown accustomed to, as well as the fake bake films we make to help appease US audiences (looking at you Love Actually). Yes, what I’m trying to say is that the UK film industry needs money injected into so it doesn’t feel it needs to make a political point in order to establish itself.
We’re a creative bunch. Yet that creativity is wasted among those who yield no revolutionary, no anti-government rebel, and no tea and Yorkshire bread aficionado to represent their country (the category I myself fall under).
What I want to see is a god damn quiet revolution with no arguments and a big load of cash handed over to us on a silver platter for no other reason than to shut us up, because if we’re good at anything it’s complaining.
*We even have a show called Britain’s Got Talent!
Ben Doran
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