One of the success stories of the British film industry – if by British film industry we mean all the commercial activity involving movies in the UK, rather than specifically British films – is the film studio organisation known as the Pinewood Group, which incorporates the long-established studio spaces at Pinewood and Shepperton. In recent years, productions ranging from Les Miserables to Prometheus have been shot at Pinewood, and the biggest blockbusters of all, the James Bond and Star Wars movies, continue to be made within their cavernous buildings. In fact the current projects in both of those franchises have helped the group achieve record levels of income – Guardian report.
This prompts a number of questions for the alert film student, including this central topic of discussion: to what extent is the success of the studio good for UK films and filmmaking?
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