We’ve seen the British government screw up the film industry so many times, changing the laws and tax breaks and now it’s being reported that £285 million of National Lottery money is to be put into the British film industry over the next five years.

The sum, which will be used to boost film production, was revealed in a new five-year plan issued by the British Film Institute (BFI).

They say the money will also be spent on increasing audience choice and education.

The plan, dubbed “New Horizons”, sets out measures to increase the variety of films shown in cinemas, particularly outside central London.

According to the BFI, “only 7% of all cinema screens are regularly devoted to non-mainstream film” and these are mostly found in the capital and the south east.

We’ll to the average man on the street you would think the cinemas we’re independent but in reality the movie studios own them, Rank Organisation they own Odeon, The Odessa Film Studio the list goes on and on.

Just look at the film releases in 2012 and try and spot the independent films. Raising the funds is the hardest part and then try and get a distribution deal it would be easier to rob a bank and get away with it. All the producers believe in their projects and they all think it will be successful but when asks for the ROI its lick the finger and put it in the air time, who know who much it will make or what the audience even want.

Earlier this year, Prime Minister David Cameron said the British film industry needed to support “commercially successful pictures”.

“We should aim even higher, building on the incredible success of recent years,” he added.

What a dick and stupid statement, we don’t go into a film thinking it’s going to fail we all know making a film is risky but it’s an art form

“The King’s Speech is a good example. In the beginning, it found it quite difficult to find the funding to close the budget – and yet it captured the hearts and minds of people not just in Britain, but around the world.”

Not to sound bitter but realistic the BFI have the producers marketplace every year a round robin with producers and the studios, getting in to this requires you to have an unrealistic number of things, they set it like this to show they are open but in reality keep out all the independent producers and the funds all go to the studios or establishes film companies.

In summary the news is crap news and will not change a thing for the independent film industry.

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Here is the first look at Django Unchained from acclamied writer / director Quentin Tarantino. Form this who knows what the film will be like. Hopefully a parody porno.

Bang Bang - take that!

The film formally known as Cogans Trade, now ‘Killing The Softly’ starring Brad Pitt a professional enforcer who investigates a heist that takes place during a high stakes poker game under protection of the mob. It doesn’t sound too bad and with the smorgasbord of remakes coming out this year it’s one to watch out for.

Jackie Cogan is an enforcer; and when the Mob’s rules get broken, he gets hired to ply his trade – murder. In the gritty, tough-talking pages of Higgins’s 1974 national best-seller, Cogan is called in when a high-stake card game under the protection of the Mob is heisted

In Movie Theaters:          September 21, 2012

It looks good but again I keep thinking about the original….and then I think about Sharon Stone and then I think about Basic Instinct and her legs opening and then I think about…you don’t wanna know.

Earlier this week, comedy superstar Will Ferrell made a surprise appearance on the late night talk show Conan as the character Ron Burgundy, from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.  And he made the announcement that a deal had been worked out with Paramount Pictures for a sequel to the 2004 hit comedy to finally move forward. This is good news I’m looking forward to it already.

The new Avengers trailer sends a tingle down every geek’s back and having Scarlett Johansson in a full leather catsuit send tingles in other places! You know what I mean, the sticky mouse pad on the laptop kinda guy….

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