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Blinded By The Light : Funding and industry contexts 1) What was the budget for Blinded By The Light and which companies contributed to the production budget? The budget for Blinded by the light was around 15 million dollars and the companies that contributed to the budget were Levantine Films and Ingenious Media as Bend It Films developed the film and they supported it. 2) Research the  Bend It Networks website . What other films and projects has the company been involved with? Beecham House, Viceroy's House, Bend  it like  Beckham the musical and the film, Desi Rascals,  It's a  wonderful  afterlife, Angus things and perfect snogging,  Mistress of spices,  Bride and prejudice, W hat's cooking,  Bhaji on the beach, I'm   British  but..., and Blinded by the Light. 3) Research Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema  on the Warners website here . Summarise the history of New Line Cinema in a short paragraph. New Line Cinema was founded in 1967.  Building on more th

The British film industry: Factsheet #132: British Film Use our brilliant Media Factsheet archive  on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets)  to find Media Factsheet  #132  on  British Film . You can  find it online here - you'll need to log in using your Greenford Google login .  Read the whole of Factsheet and answer the following questions: 1) Write a one-sentence definition of what makes a film British. The people making the film are British, is it funded from within Britain, are the cast British, is the film’s subject matter about Britain or British culture . 2) What is the difference between a Hollywood production context and production context of a British film? British film as a production context also tends to be varied but idiosyncratic to the story being told within the film.For instance the Hollywood production context means that most films made by Hollywood studios  have high budgets, a heavy reliance on celebrities both in the cast and cre