The British film industry creates jobs for a large range of people, not just for the people you would expect such as actors and directors; but builders, technicians, costume designers and many others. "The report said 33,500 people were directly employed in the film industry in 2006." (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6911999.stm) The industry also generates a lot of money, as popular British films such as the James Bond series or Bridget Jones’ diary are sold all over the world, and a large amount of the revenue is taken in by the UK. The films themselves don’t create all the money though, as film based products such as games and posters bring in a lot of money, as well as advertising the film, which leads to bringing in even more money and advertising the film further, as well as creating more jobs. Especially today, where the economy has largely collapsed, the film industry is one of the few which is still bringing in large amounts of money. This can be proven be this quote from the BBC's website. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6911999.stm) Films made in the UK contributed an estimated £4.3bn to the country's economy last year[2006], research released by the UK Film Council has suggested.
Tourism
Films have an adverse effect of drawing tourism to the area where they were filmed. I personally remember going to visit the castle where parts of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" were filmed, just because the film had been filmed there, and even at least 20 years later, souvenirs of the film were still being sold in gift shops. I found this quote taken from an article by the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6964375.stm). "The Harry Potter films led to a 120% rise in visitors to Northumberland's Alnwick Castle, and had brought about £9m worth of tourism to the region." This is significant proof that the film industry has a powerful knock-on effect on tourism.
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