Following the internationally berated demise of the U.K. Film Council earlier this year (see my article: “Did the U.K. Film Industry Die in Secret?”) — where Clint Eastwood wrote a complaint letter to the Prime Minister and where the British culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, had to fly to L.A. to calm U.S. filmmaker and investor worries (Hunt has since privately admitted the U.K. Film Council affair was handled badly) — the new British government has finally come up with a solution to “rectify” the situation this week.
They believe the answer – in order to promote, nurture and encourage Britain’s film industry – is to simultaneously split up the U.K.