Jonathan Stuart-Brown for Save The British Film Industry.

If there has to be cuts, if we can no longer afford what we used to afford from the public purse, then these cuts should focus on axing sinecures for failed politicians and former ministers.

The ASA must now be classed in the category of something we can not afford, and must do without.

It clearly has so little real vital work to do (compared to the police) that it can find the time and public money to persecute Christians and bully anyone with any Judeo-Christian morality.

http://www.archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/asa-chairman-is-also-vice-president-of.html

The ASA  website is extremely detailed, but just try and find the ASA annual budget clearly listed on it.  A very very hard find indeed. It seems shy to mention how very many of your millions  it is greedily taking each year. Not keen on letting you know the vast salaries and expenses it pays.

The founders of  the ASA  50 years ago would be rolling in their graves. But the ASA is not alone and nor is it the worst offender. Brandname trusted organisations, quangos and charities built often over generations by good moral people regularly get infiltrated at the top by amoral  cultural marxists  and greedy people  in Britain. Little hinges control big doors.

As far back as 1923 Marxists formally met and skillfully planned how to destroy Judeo-Christian morality in the west, especially Britain and the USA by infiltration of key organisations. The plans were regularly thwarted but became ever more  refined and ever better  resourced.  By this time the  Berlin Wall fell a generation of new Cambridge spies had been recruited and positioned to reach the levers of power in Britain. Change the very few people who control the hinges and you can control the biggest doors. This has now happened.

The central idea from 1923 onwards was to spread fear, to terrorise people, so that they were afraid to have any coversation or make any individual free choice. The aim was by terror and oppression to change their speech and thought patterns by enforcing the idea that vocalising your beliefs is disrespectful to others, dangerous to society and must be criminalised. People must be brainwashed to believe expressing beliefs must be avoided to make up for past (often imaginary) injustices by previous generations.

A big part of the reason this failed to take hold for at least 50 years was the antidote of magnificent films and the values their stories supplied.

The Chinese Foreign Minister is utterly accurate in asserting that films are ’soft power’ in war and foreign policy.

Turning specifically to Chris Smith, he should resign from the ASA and every public office after the disgraceful ASA attack  on Cranmer and The Christian Churches seeking to defend the beliefs laid out in their Holy Book from their Holy God, which have held sway in this nation for nearly 2000 years. Smith took on the role of leadership, so he should take responsibility for its actions.

Chris Smith was a hopeless Culture, Media and Sport minister and possibly the worst of them all. Given the names on this list, it is some achievement.

Further, his report about the UK film industry delivered in January was clueless and another waste of public money.

We could have 250 000 people across the UK working in the film industry within five years and bringing £25 billion a year into the UK, but not while Smithie and Co are still being paid to advise the Government.

We need sound stages, glorified warehouses around the UK in every region (even every town). These are the essential building blocks of a film industry which attracts inward investment and releases creative talent to meet consumer needs (for which they will pay).

In fact very many know this and work overtime to ensure these sound stages do not get built outside the tiny places they presently exist as the real agenda is to keep the film industry in Britain extremely small (while publically professing 180 degrees opposite agenda).

The agenda is to try to prevent many who might make magnificent films supporting the views of say Cranmer as opposed to the agenda of say Chris Smith.

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/the-vision/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/the-proposal/

Please pray Cranmer and others have the grace to forgive and bless the henchmen thugs at the ASA.

But it is also clear in the present economic climate that Smith’s sinecures should go and go now.  The ASA should be axed immediately.

The public money saved  should be given to the police to retain as many frontline officers as possible.

If we can not afford the police, we certainly can not afford the ASA.

http://www.archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/asa-chairman-is-also-vice-president-of.html

Please pray for the police in your local area. Please oppose the cuts to police numbers.

http://www.polfed.org/mediacenter/B73CF66E17F94CE9B9C0EC41A78EC051.asp

Please pray for the police, please pray crime will fall, please lobby MPs, please let David Cameron know that police cuts are not acceptable.

Please pray for the police
http://www.cpauk.net/

The Avengers is a great movie, will now beat £1.5 billion at the box office, but they will not be there in real life.  Nor will The ASA or if people try to rob you in the street, steal your car, break into your home. The police will be there if we devote public taxes to their upkeep.

Public expenditure must now be cut in the UK and in many areas it should be BUT there is one absolute exception.

Cuts of 20% of UK frontline police is massive and will affect people all over the UK – although the Westminster village will still probably get an increase not decrease in police resources.

http://www.polfed.org/

Save The British Film Industry does not oppose all public spending cuts, indeed we encourage cuts in the film and arts quangos and their croney bureaucracies (which to repeat shore up corrupt croneyism and limit access of most people in the UK to enter the film industry) and we only approve of public spending (especially ring fenced Lottery Money) on physical infrastructure in film making (sound stages, sets, essential equipment) in every region of the UK . The film industry and most arts -if the physical infrastructure is there- will generate and magnetise inward investment and private patronage either seeking profit or kudos/glory.

However, vital public services should be fully financed by the public purse. The police are top of the list. Their budget and manpower should be increased in 2012 and not reduced by 20%.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DsgCg34jg8A#!

Please support this cause. The police are a special case.

http://www.polfed.org/mediacenter/get_involved.asp

it is the media battle which will be decisive in pressurising a bunch of inept politicians to do the right thing.

Police budgets and police numbers should be increased and not decreased.

Police keep people safe. The only people who want police cuts are criminals.

A frightened society will become cruel and poor.We want a well staffed, high morale police force.

So please pray for and support the police today. Lobby MPs, write letters, get on radio phone ins, phone up local and national AND international newspapers and TV companies. Get the US press interested. Get the French and German press. Get RTV News interested. This Government hates to be shamed in international media because they see the government jobs as part of their social life. They hate to be ridiculed and embarassed at parties. The Government can back down on police cuts with a big concerted push.

Please plead the Divine Protection of The Blood of Lord Jesus Christ over your local police, your family and home, and theirs. please pray the Government leaders and ministers show wisdom and steward their immense resources wisely.

http://www.worldprayer.org.uk/uploads/Trumpet_Call_IV_Report_26May06_1.pdf

http://www.coact.org.uk/index.html

http://www.coact.org.uk/pray.html

Further give thanks to God for the superb police force the UK has been given.

Next please please please pray for the peace and prosperity of Jerusalem and Israel. Please pray for the protection of Jerusalem and Israel. This nation faces a nuclear bomb being aimed at it. It has got used to levels of daily and nightly bombing which no other nation could tolerate for so very long.  Please pray for Jerusalem and Israel as the neighbours all make more and more genocidal threats.

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/please-pray-for-the-peace-and-prosperity-of-jerusalem/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EutYRS52Ac

New International Version (©1984)
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you be secure”.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Pray for peace in Jerusalem. May all who love this city prosper.

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2012/03/pray-for-the-peace-and-prosperity-of-jerusalem-and-claim-genesis-12-verse-3-with-both-hands/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/please-pray-for-the-peace-and-prosperity-of-jerusalem/

http://jerusalemprayerteam.org/

https://jerusalemprayerteam.org/products.

http://www.catholicsforisrael.com/

Jonathan Stuart-Brown

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/

www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com

The police, fire fighters, doctors, nurses, ambulance staff, disabled care workers should not be cut. They are real public services.

Jonathan Stuart-Brown for Save The British Film industry.

‘The Avengers’ has passed the $1 billion cinema box office total and should now break $1.5 billion.  It is a truly great escapist action picture with lots of laughs. It deserves to do well.

However, when the figures are added up, it will still be the box office outside the US which is seen as ‘the daddy’.  These may still account for over 70% of the final total of cinema revenue. This is part of the post Hollywood trend and when a new centre in Europe emerges, the financial decision-making will move there along with all the actors, writers, directors and crew seeking work in the biggest movies. If the UK built soundstages all around the nation and also built state of the art  sets from outer space, pyramids, Paris, Venice, Moscow, Beijing, etc on a very big scale – well then it could come here.

Hopefully The Culture Secretary after Jeremy Hunt is sacked will see this vision and chase it.

This can create a 250 000 job UK based film industry and a £25 billion a year inward investment.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/9260526/Film-investment-could-lose-tax-breaks.html

The simple rule is do not invest in movies UNLESS you see a viable chance of a profit from these movies AND can cope with the loss of the investment if things do not work out. Tax relief is a bonus and can be as risky a bet as any other when cases go to law.

We focus on the nation (public-private) investing in physical infrastructure (sound stages and sets) which attract all private sector investment in individual film production (of any real magnitude).

The film industry (with the sound stages and sets in each region to release all the business and creative talent)  can finance vital public services.

Public expenditure must now be cut in the UK and in many areas it should be BUT there is one absolute exception.

Cuts of 20% of UK frontline police is massive and will affect people all over the UK – although the Westminster village will still probably get an increase not decrease in police resources.

http://www.polfed.org/

Save The British Film Industry does not oppose all public spending cuts, indeed we encourage cuts in the film and arts quangos and their croney bureaucracies (which to repeat shore up corrupt croneyism and limit access of most people in the UK to enter the film industry) and we only approve of public spending (especially ring fenced Lottery Money) on physical infrastructure in film making (sound stages, sets, essential equipment) in every region of the UK . The film industry and most arts -if the physical infrastructure is there- will generate and magnetise inward investment and private patronage either seeking profit or kudos/glory.

However, vital public services should be fully financed by the public purse. The police are top of the list. Their budget and manpower should be increased in 2012 and not reduced by 20%.

Please listen to the police spokesperson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DsgCg34jg8A#!

Please support this cause. The police are a special case.

http://www.polfed.org/mediacenter/get_involved.asp

it is the media battle which will be decisive in pressurising a bunch of inept politicians to do the right thing.

Police budgets and police numbers should be increased and not decreased.

Police keep people safe. The only people who want police cuts are criminals.

A frightened society will become cruel and poor.We want a well staffed, high morale police force.

So please pray for and support the police today. Lobby MPs, write letters, get on radio phone ins, phone up local and national AND international newspapers and TV companies. Get the US press interested. Get the French and German press. Get RTV News interested. This Government hates to be shamed in international media because they see the government jobs as part of their social life. They hate to be ridiculed and embarassed at parties. The Government can back down on police cuts with a big concerted push.

http://www.polfed.org/mediacenter/B73CF66E17F94CE9B9C0EC41A78EC051.asp

Please pray for the police, please pray crime will fall, please lobby MPs, please let David Cameron know that police cuts are not acceptable.

Please pray for the police
http://www.cpauk.net/

Please plead the Divine Protection of The Blood of Lord Jesus Christ over your local police, your family and home, and theirs. please pray the Government leaders and ministers show wisdom and steward their immense resources wisely.

http://www.worldprayer.org.uk/uploads/Trumpet_Call_IV_Report_26May06_1.pdf

http://www.coact.org.uk/index.html

http://www.coact.org.uk/pray.html

Further give thanks to God for the superb police force the UK has been given.

Next please please please pray for the peace and prosperity of Jerusalem and Israel. Please pray for the protection of Jerusalem and Israel. This nation faces a nuclear bomb being aimed at it. It has got used to levels of daily and nightly bombing which no other nation could tolerate for so very long.  Please pray for Jerusalem and Israel as the neighbours all make more and more genocidal threats.

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/please-pray-for-the-peace-and-prosperity-of-jerusalem/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EutYRS52Ac

New International Version (©1984)
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you be secure.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Pray for peace in Jerusalem. May all who love this city prosper.

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2011/01/why-denzel-washington-would-make-a-much-more-successful-us-president-than-obama-and-denzel-washingtons-secret-to-being-a-hollywood-superstar-with-box-office-longevity/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2012/05/article-by-steven-zeitchik-in-la-times-well-worth-reading-to-understand-the-avengers-box-office-success-and-the-new-thinking-on-greenlighting-similar-movies/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2012/03/pray-for-the-peace-and-prosperity-of-jerusalem-and-claim-genesis-12-verse-3-with-both-hands/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/please-pray-for-the-peace-and-prosperity-of-jerusalem/

http://jerusalemprayerteam.org/

https://jerusalemprayerteam.org/products.

http://www.catholicsforisrael.com/

http://www.catholicsforisrael.com/en/articles/the-catholic-faith/52-why-be-catholic

http://www.catholicsforisrael.com/en/articles/israel-and-the-church/59-why-catholics-for-israel

The Avengers is a great movie but they will not be there in real life. The police will be if we devote public taxes to their upkeep.

The Avengers is a great movie but will not be there to protect Israel and Jerusalem. Pray God defends Israel and Jerusalem.

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/please-pray-for-the-peace-and-prosperity-of-jerusalem/

Jonathan Stuart-Brown

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/

www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com

The police, fire fighters, doctors, nurses, ambulance staff, disabled care workers should not be cut. They are real public services.

Clint Eastwood knocked out by Simon Cowell In defending The real UK Film Industry

007 James Bond 23 Will be called “Chrystal Amber”

Jonathan Stuart-Brown For Save The British Film Industry.

Robert Downey Jnr, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, and other stars of The Avengers can be far more thrilled at their box office success than the UK public can be with their Government.

The Police march against cuts is going strong and deserves far far far more coverage than Andy Coulson at the Leveson Inquiry on BBC and Sky 24 Hour News.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9257574/More-than-20000-off-duty-police-officers-take-to-the-streets.html

We do not want a thinner blue line. We do not want more crime. We do not want less safe streets, homes, shopping. We want more police officers not less.

Even this useless Government must surely see this.

http://www.protectourpolice.co.uk/?page_id=11

The Judge in The Leveson Inquiry is superb and giving Lord Hutton a lesson in how to run a Public Inquiry. But 24 Hour TV news have lost all perspective.

http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/

Lord Justice Leveson would be first to agree that his is a limited focus highly specialised brief and that he wants to get on with it so he can return to other judging.

It is of course all that matters to Westminster because it is all about them.

But most people are much more concerned with police numbers and a safer daily life.

Cuts of 20% of UK frontline police is massive and will affect people all over the UK – although the Westminster village will still probably get an increase not decrease in police resources.

http://www.polfed.org/

Save The British Film Industry does not oppose all public spending cuts, indeed we encourage cuts in the film and arts quangos and their croney bureaucracies (which to repeat shore up corrupt croneyism and limit access of most people in the UK to enter the film industry) and we only approve of public spending (especially ring fenced Lottery Money) on physical infrastructure in film making (sound stages, sets, essential equipment) in every region of the UK . The film industry and most arts -if the physical infrastructure is there- will generate and magnetise inward investment and private patronage either seeking profit or kudos/glory.

However, vital public services should be fully financed by the public purse. The police are top of the list. Their budget and manpower should be increased in 2012 and not reduced by 20%.

Please listen to the police spokesperson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DsgCg34jg8A#!

Please support this cause. The police are a special case.

http://www.polfed.org/mediacenter/get_involved.asp

Maybe 20% of police officers -off duty and able to get to Central London before they are back on duty – are there. But it is the media battle which will be decisive in pressurising a bunch of inept politicians to do the right thing.

Police budgets and police numbers should be increased and not decreased.

Police keep people safe. The only people who want police cuts are criminals.

The fire fighters, doctors, nurses, ambulance staff, disabled care workers should not be cut. They are real public services.

Huge quango bureaucracies in many fields including the film quangos can be cut and will indeed release the talent/enterprise/creativity they are (sometimes unintentionally) suppressing.

The Hollywood film industry model of getting private sector investment and making movies people will pay to see, marketing/publicising them extremely well (selling the sizzle, not the steak), and reinvesting the profits has been achieved without film quango bureaucracies steering public funds in the wrong direction. If the US film industry had had UK type quangos a hundred years ago, it would have used all the public monies to stop Hollywood setting up as a rival to the East Coast film making monopoly cartel. This is what happens now in the UK. We are stopping our Hollywoods set up on vast cheap ex-industrial lans because the quango members love to dine in West London restaurants.

The Avengers movie has just breezed through $750 million in its opening weekend in the USA and it will break $1 billion by the weekend and may hit $1.5 billion by the weekend after. But once again, it will be the non-US box office which will dominate. The movie is excellent but may only do at best $500 million in the USA and do double this in other countries. The US box office still matters but it is not the 90s. It is no longer 80% of all global cinema and dvd revenue because the non-US global market has expanded rapidly. The Us consumer is still a prince but not the King.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOrNdBpGMv8

But the US shows that it is not public subsidy for movies which is crucial in building an industry. We of course applaud public money spent on physical infrasdtructure (sound stages, sets) but not necessarily production. The private sector risk capital and profits are there.Go to Cannes next week and see for yourself. They are attracted to physical infrastructure and great screenplays/packages of box office talent. They want the next ‘Avengers’.

The film and art industries can survive and flourish without public money, but the police really need it.This is where public taxes should be spent.

The reason this government is so dim about the police is that West London and Central London have such outstanding manpower (including massive military power) in Buckingham Palace, the Royal Parks, Whitehall and Westminster. Government ministers have tremendous police protection. Some ex-ministers have six police officers for life to protect them.Some have police officers helping with their shopping and dry cleaning. Officers outside Parliament know what is going on but are bewildered the MPs, ministers, Westminster luvvies they guard just do not have a clue.

The Olympics will suck in police resources from across the UK to protect the prestige of a West London political elite.

This type of protection we do not despise. But we want it for everybody.

A safe society will see businesses flourish.We can have it if we stop wasting public money on things it was never spent on prior to the 80s and 90s.

A frightened society will become cruel and poor.We want a well staffed, high morale police force.

So please pray for and support the police today on May 10 and follow up. Lobby MPs, write letters, get on radio phone ins, phone up local and national AND international newspapers and TV companies. Get the US press interested. Get the French and German press. Get RTV News interested. This Government hates to be shamed in international media because they see the government jobs as part of their social life. They hate to be ridiculed and embarassed at parties. The Government can back down on police cuts with a big concerted push.

http://www.polfed.org/mediacenter/B73CF66E17F94CE9B9C0EC41A78EC051.asp

Please pray for the police, please pray crime will fall, please lobby MPs, please let David Cameron know that police cuts are not acceptable.

Please pray for the police
http://www.cpauk.net/

Please plead the Divine Protection of The Blood of Lord Jesus Christ over your local police, your family and home, and theirs. please pray the Government leaders and ministers show wisdom and steward their immense resources wisely.

http://www.worldprayer.org.uk/uploads/Trumpet_Call_IV_Report_26May06_1.pdf

http://www.coact.org.uk/index.html

http://www.coact.org.uk/pray.html

Further give thanks to God for the superb police force the UK has been given.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/07/showbiz/movies/avengers-samuel-l-jackson-grossing-ew/index.html

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2012/05/article-by-steven-zeitchik-in-la-times-well-worth-reading-to-understand-the-avengers-box-office-success-and-the-new-thinking-on-greenlighting-similar-movies/

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1684611/avengers-breaks-box-office-records.jhtml

The Avengers is a great movie but they will not be there in real life. The police will be if we devote public taxes to their upkeep.

http://news.yahoo.com/avengers-ups-dollar-power-207-4m-opening-193118591–finance.html

PPS. Please please please Pray for The Peace and Prosperity of Jerusalem and Israel.
http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/please-pray-for-the-peace-and-prosperity-of-jerusalem/

Jonathan Stuart-Brown

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/

www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com

Jonathan Stuart-Brown for Save The British Film Industry.

Chris Jones is always worth reading.

http://www.productionoffice.org/

http://www.productionoffice.org/season-two-episodes/s2-episode-4/

http://www.chrisjonesblog.com/

http://www.livingspiritgroup.com/training/

http://www.productionoffice.org/sponsors-and-producers/

http://www.livingspiritgroup.com/training/come-to-cannes-2011/

http://www.livingspiritgroup.com/

http://www.productionoffice.org/season-one-episodes/

PPS. Please please please Pray for The Peace and Prosperity of Jerusalem and Israel.
http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/please-pray-for-the-peace-and-prosperity-of-jerusalem/

Jonathan Stuart-Brown for Save The British Film Industry.

Anyone who saw any of Jeymes Samuel’s short films in the mid 1990s will know that he was destined to be a truly great British film director. Alas his heart was more in producing music, and his brother  Seal was already a Grammy Winner and international superstar, so you can understand the choice he made.

Finally, maybe 15 years after he could and should have emerged as a genius film maker, he is starting to approach fame as a musician.

He still has great taste in beautiful actresses.

Is that really Rosario Dawson (Men In Black 2 ) in this short film ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSsYwd5REEI

Let’s hope Jeymes focuses on making some real full length movies.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2088379/Rosario-Dawson-busts-moves-street-serenaded-tramp-West-End–music-video.html

PS.  Please please please support the Police march in London on May 10. Please oppose police cuts of 20%.

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/

http://www.polfed.org/mediacenter/B73CF66E17F94CE9B9C0EC41A78EC051.asp

Please pray for the police, please pray crime will fall, please lobby MPs, please let David Cameron know that police cuts are not acceptable.

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2012/05/please-support-the-police-federation-march-on-thursday-may-10-and-oh-yes-the-avengers-movie-is-set-to-break-800million-by-the-weekend/

PPS. Please please please Pray for The Peace and Prosperity of Jerusalem and Israel.
http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/please-pray-for-the-peace-and-prosperity-of-jerusalem/

Jonathan Stuart-Brown

Save The British Film Industry

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/

Jonathan Stuart-Brown for Save The British Film Industry.

Steven Zeitchik of The LA Times has analysed why The Avengers is doing so well at the box office. He highlights seven lessons to learn.

He keeps it simple – a big key to the movie’s success – and calls it,

‘The Avengers’: Seven lessons of Marvel’s box-office success.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/05/marvel-the-avengers-box-office-joss-whedon-reviews-downey-ruffalo-movie.html

The conclusion is that Hollywood Studios will be making many more films in the superhero genre just as soon as they can. Hopefully they will be as successful as this one, but never forget that post the original Star Wars that Hollywood was trying to get a space helmet on any star who would wear it.  Lorne Greene was not the worst example we can think of.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/05/marvel-the-avengers-box-office-joss-whedon-reviews-downey-ruffalo-movie.html

The Zeitchik article is very well worth reading.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/05/marvel-the-avengers-box-office-joss-whedon-reviews-downey-ruffalo-movie.html

twitter.com/ZeitchikLAT

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2012/05/avengers-box-office-record-weekend.html

We would just add that ‘The Avengers’ movie (which may get to $1.5 billion worldwide) was especially carefully planned and extremely well executed. It has been skillfully and patiently trailered in other movies.  It had had the sizzle and also really delivered the steak. It had the advantage that it was struggling to find screentime for its big heros and villains because the plot and action moved so fast, and it had lots of high quality comedy. So it was very unlike the Ang Lee version of The Hulk which starred Eric Bana – in which Bana was superb but stuck with a script which only had about 45 minutes of plot if filmed at the pace of ‘The Avengers’. Bana was really let down by the director  in this movie which still did good business but somehow made Hollywood believe he was not a box office leading man.  Bana is as good as Di Niro and Pacino (and better than both in comedy) but he has paid a huge price for being in that Hulk movie.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-pg-13-20120508,0,3277841.story

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-avengers-20120503,0,1815592.story

A real secret to the Marvel movies success is that in the 1960s Stan Lee and his creative team came up with the most magnificent comic fantasy universe way way way before cinema or tv could credibly portray the events and effects on screen (if real actors were in play and not animation). The decline of comic sales in the USA is entirely down to the fact that the action, effects and emotion can now be done way way way better on the big and small screen than on the printed page.

The Marvel characters and stories are rich, imaginative, exciting. The present day directors are standing on the shoulders of giants in adding a few extra tweaks, twists, plot points and jokes. Having said that, they do it very well.

The great news for film everywhere is that a robust box office leads to many more greenlights of ambitious expensive movies. Next week in Cannes will see a lot more films from $1 million to $150 million greenlit because the gamblers believe the dice is hot at the moment. A lot of people in Cannes will find financiers eager to get their money on the film roulette table. The confidence is high.

Happily ‘The Amazing Spiderman’ due for release in July is even better than ‘The Avengers’. This movie may take $2 billion at the box office. The action scenes created by Vic Armstrong and Andy Armstrong will wow the world. These are the finest British film workers in the world.

It is very ironic that Daniel Craig’s 007 has departed so far from what the $1 billion box office film club wants – when 007 had it in spades before Craig.

The 007 under new management are intentionally chasing, and just about getting, the Jason Bourne box office.

Yet 007, if it had stayed on the box office trajectory it was once on as a very much larger than life fantasy superhero for whom no escapist panache is beyond him.  A hero who gives the audience a fun filled easy entertainment ride while still surprising and making everyone laugh. A roller coaster ride which we can all enjoy.

Of course you could turn 007 into a dark troubled alcoholic who has trouble sleeping on his own road to perdition. If so, you may as well get Sam Mendes to direct it and Daniel Craig to star in it – certainly chasing Oscar nominations-  but not a $1 billion global box office.

If ‘Skyfall’ does struggle to get $500 million at the November 2012 -January 2013 box office, then they really should send for Vic Armstrong to direct James Bond 24. Other than that send for ‘The Avengers’ team.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIdiKAN_XZg&feature=channel&list=UL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imPYryIU8wg&feature=channel&list=UL

As Steven Zeitchik says ‘The branding/superhero era isn’t ending anytime soon’.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/05/marvel-the-avengers-box-office-joss-whedon-reviews-downey-ruffalo-movie.html

twitter.com/ZeitchikLAT

PPS. Please please please Pray for The Peace and Prosperity of Jerusalem and Israel.
http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/please-pray-for-the-peace-and-prosperity-of-jerusalem/

Jonathan Stuart-Brown For Save The British Film Industry.

Elstree Studios is only 9 acres and you can have one in every town in the UK.

Simon Cowell got his first job as a very local teenager there when it hosted ‘Star Wars’.

The Voice is filmed there. So Jessie J, Tom Jones and Will.iam can see its worth. How many towns in the UK wish they had the massive marketing tool of ‘The Voice’, the smash hit BBC show which is watched by over 10 million viewers and read about by treble that number in national newspapers ? Well it is just 9 acres of sound proofed warehouses not dissimilar to factories or well warehouses !

http://www.elstreestudios.co.uk/Studios/stage1.aspx

http://www.elstreestudios.co.uk/Studios/Stages/stage2.aspx

http://www.elstreestudios.co.uk/Studios/Stages/stage5.aspx

http://www.elstreestudios.co.uk/Studios/Stages/stage6.aspx

http://www.elstreestudios.co.uk/Studios/Stages/stage7.aspx

http://www.elstreestudios.co.uk/Studios/Stages/stage8.aspx

Virtual tour well worth taking.

http://www.elstreestudios.co.uk/Studios/site_plan.aspx

Kate Perry is available if you live very near Elstree, as are most top pop stars rehearsing prior to world tours in the high rooved warehouses. Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams, you name them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6QcWmBmFk

Apart from ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’, ‘Big Brother’, ‘Dancing on Ice’, Elstree has a film legacy which is vibrant. Literally every film star in the world may be there in the next few years. It is really in that league. After ‘Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows’ starring Robert Downey Jnr,  after ‘The King’s Speech’, after Eric Bana, Anne Hathaway, Scarlett Johansson have been there, after Michael Caine was there, after Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has fully endorsed it, after Spielberg made his movies there, then Elstree Studios is very big news.

Truly every town in the UK can have the basic physical infrastructure which Elstree has, and indeed very much better.

Physical infrastructure still leads film production and film investment.

Why is the UK the only country not to invest in physical infrastructure – which Lottery Money 20 years ago was designed to do – when much wiser countries are doing so and gaining a huge slice of Hollywood largesse ?

Well it is not an accident. Despite claims to the contrary, many people want to keep the UK a small cosy elite club and cottage industry. The prospect of being a mass employer cornering 50% of the world film and tv production really freaks them.  The prospect of 250 000 jobs turns them off.

Elstree Studios has had a very good year of business with a mixture of  television shows, feature films and commercials. The prospects of getting a first job in film or tv is sky high if you are local to Elstree. But this can be the case everywhere in Britain.

Scarlett Johansson is back with ‘Under The Skin’, Steve Coogan is in ‘The King of Soho’ and much bigger movies coming. Elstree has not the space to expand but elsewhere in the UK a mere 9 acres is nothing.  Elstree has had to turn work away in recent years. Elstree is a huge success. Meanwhile the 650 acre NEC in Birmingham is more than half empty all but a few weeks of the year.

Elstree would have been sold off  by property developers as shops save for the courageous legal action of plucky Hertsmere Borough Council who now own it.

http://www.elstreestudios.co.uk/

http://www.elstreestudios.co.uk/About-Us/

http://www.elstreestudios.co.uk/About-Us/testimonials.aspx

There can be a magnificent film industry based in Britain if the Government and local authorities and LEPs will seek to get physical infrastructure built in each town, or at very least each region.

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2010/09/x-factor-simon-cowell-to-become-a-movie-producer-picking-up-on-his-elstree-studios-roots-when-he-fetched-coffee-for-jack-nicholson-harrison-ford-and-oliver-reed/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2010/12/time-to-seek-divine-help-if-we-want-a-real-uk-wide-british-film-industry-employing-250-000-people-and-25-billion-a-year-for-chancellor-george-osborne/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/please-pray-for-the-peace-and-prosperity-of-jerusalem/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2010/10/conservative-mp-peter-bone-is-on-the-ball-as-regards-backing-the-british-film-industry/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2010/11/warners-prove-it-is-sound-stages-and-physical-film-factory-facilities-which-create-real-film-jobs-in-the-uk-and-not-uk-film-council-and-regional-film-commission-fat-cat-bureaucrats/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2010/09/the-godfather-of-britains-fifth-estate-dr-richard-a-e-north-of-defence-of-the-realm-has-epic-victory-in-getting-snatch-landrovers-outlawed-so-there-is-hope-for-getting-sound-stages-and-250-000-jobs/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2010/10/yes-the-french-can-help-out-in-saving-the-british-film-industry-but-by-no-means-as-much-as-the-british-can-help-themselves-by-building-sound-stages-around-the-uk/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2010/11/the-british-film-institute-takes-over-from-the-uk-film-council-but-the-chance-to-create-250-000-film-jobs-and-25-billion-a-year-revenue-in-the-uk-goes-missing-in-action/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2010/11/forget-the-british-film-institute-film-london-creative-england-the-uk-film-council-its-still-all-about-pinewood-studios-and-sound-stages-stupid/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2010/12/little-focker-big-box-office-jeff-bridges-huge-comeback-in-true-grit-and-tron-but-if-britain-wants-250-000-film-jobs-and-25-billion-a-year-for-george-osborne-it-is-time-to-pray-and-pray/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2010/11/jeremy-hunt-to-announce-future-of-uk-public-purse-film-funding-this-week-but-alas-he-will-not-be-putting-it-into-the-sound-stages-and-sets-which-can-create-250-000-jobs-and-a-25-billion-a-year-industr/

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/please-pray-for-the-peace-and-prosperity-of-jerusalem/

Jonathan Stuart-Brown for Save The British Film Industry

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/

Jonathan Stuart-Brown for Save The British Film Industry.

Please support the Police Federation of England and Wales march in Central London on Thursday May 10.

http://www.polfed.org/

We do not oppose all public spending cuts, indeed we encourage cuts in the film and arts quangos and their bureaucracies (which shore up corrupt croneyism and limit access of most people in the UK to enter the film industry) and we only approve of public spending (especially ring fenced Lottery Money) on physical infrastructure in film making (sound stages, sets, essential equipment) in every region of the UK . The film industry and most arts -if the physical infrastructure is there- will generate and magnetise inward investment and private patronage either seeking profit or kudos/glory.

However, vital public services should be fully financed by the public purse. The police are top of the list. Their budget and manpower should be increased in 2012 and not reduced by 20%.

Please listen to the police spokesperson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DsgCg34jg8A#!

Please support this cause. The police are a special case.

http://www.polfed.org/mediacenter/get_involved.asp

Maybe 20% of police officers -off duty and able to get to Central London before they are back on duty – will be there. But it is the media battle which will be decisive in pressurising a bunch of inept politicians to do the right thing.

Police budgets and police numbers should be increased and not decreased.

Police keep people safe. The only people who want police cuts are criminals.

The fire fighters, doctors, nurses, ambulance staff, disabled care workers should not be cut. They are real public services.

Huge quango bureaucracies in many fields including the film quangos can be cut and will indeed release the talent/enterprise/creativity they are (sometimes unintentionally) suppressing.

The Hollywood film industry model of getting private sector investment and making movies people will pay to see, marketing/publicising them extremely well (selling the sizzle, not the steak), and reinvesting the profits has been achieved without film quango bureaucracies steering public funds in the wrong direction. If the US film industry had had UK type quangos a hundred years ago, it would have used all the public monies to stop Hollywood setting up as a rival to the East Coast film making monopoly cartel. This is what happens now in the UK. We are stopping our Hollywoods set up on vast cheap ex-industrial lans because the quango members love to dine in West London restaurants.

The Avengers movie has just breezed through $200 million in its opening weekend in the USA and is now nearly at $500 million outside the US at the cinema box office. It may break $1 billion by the weekend but if not, it will get there by the weekend after.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOrNdBpGMv8

The film and art industries can survive and flourish without public money, but the police need it.

The reason this government is so dim about the police is that West London and Central London have such outstanding manpower (including massive military power) in Buckingham Palace, the Royal Parks, Whitehall and Westminster. Government ministers have tremendous police protection. Some ex-ministers have six police officers for life to protect them.

The Olympics will suck in police resources from across the UK to protect the prestige of London.

This type of protection we do not despise. But we want it for everybody.

A safe society will see businesses flourish.

A frightened society will become cruel and poor.

So please pray for and support the police on May 10. Lobby MPs, write letters, get on radio phone ins, phone up local and national AND international newspapers and TV companies. Get the US press interested. Get the French and German press. Get RTV News interested. This Government hates to be shamed in international media because they see the government jobs as part of their social life. They hate to be ridiculed and embarassed at parties. The Government can back down on police cuts with a big concerted push.

http://www.polfed.org/mediacenter/B73CF66E17F94CE9B9C0EC41A78EC051.asp

Please pray for the police, please pray crime will fall, please lobby MPs, please let David Cameron know that police cuts are not acceptable.

Jonathan Stuart-Brown

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/

www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com

Jonathan Stuart-Brown for Save The British Film Industry.

There is a far far far bigger scandal deserving of The Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport and they do not want to look at it. It is devastating for The BBC bosses and that is why so many will not go near it. It could lead to the BBC Licence fee being axed once and for all – although we do not favour this. It could ideally lead to an unbiased BBC which gets back two generations to its Gold Standard days of trustworthy excellence. If you do not know what it is yet, then you have not been reading the website.

The Select Committee does not want to know.  Many MPs have been told face to face, on the phone, by email. Jeremy Hunt certainly did not want to know and his Department (under him) is woeful.

Yes, The BBC can on a whim really destroy the career of any MP especially those who want promotion and a Government job. So why get involved many MPs think.

Even on the relatively minor UK Film Council hearing, the Culture Committee was underbriefed, lazy, woeful. The evidence given to them then would not have stood up to scrutiny but it was not covered by BBC, ITV, Sky, or the national newspapers. They were in other Select Committees in the same corridor that day.

Oh that they had given those witnesses the Murdoch treatment.

Oh that Tom Watson and Paul Farreley – capable men when they put their minds to it – would put a fraction of the energy they put into the phone hacking inquiry into getting media jobs in their constituencies in West Bromwich and  Newcastle-under-Lyme.  The children of their constituents could have their lives transformed if they had MPs who were using their energy and time in Parliament to fight for this.

You may or may not love Rupert Murdoch. They hate him.

They really could do so much to advance the interests of the people in the Midlands especially campaigning for media infrastructure and jobs.  They could help give the region a voice.

It is not Murdoch’s job to bat for the UK regions, but it is the job of very many MPs. It is not his job to bat for fair share media infrastructure but it is theirs. The woeful state of UK media infrastructure and the centralisation of media power in West London rests with Parliament.  The Secretary  for  Culture, Media and Sport (Jeremy Hunt) and The Select Committee bear greatest collective responsibility. The nation is suffering. Talent is going to waste because of this media malnutrition.

The failure of most MPs to take this seriously -and not join the dots as their towns decay and lose hope – is a constant frustration.

In TV production terms, Murdoch has  shored up and subsidised London.

Murdoch has given the world ‘Premier League Football’ and it will rapidly collapse without him. His commitment to it was because he knew Sky TV (and its near 11 million homes) would collapse without it. Other companies who take TV rights will be more fickle  or less solvent (eg ITV Digital, Setanta).

Whatever people do or do not think about Rupert Murdoch, without him there would be no Sky TV (because he was prepared to lose £1 million a week for 18 months to get it off the ground when everyone believed it was certain to fail), no multi-channel digital TV in the UK,  and almost certainly no newspapers nor magazines. He made them profitable again in the mid 1980s when they were all about to go out of business. He also kept local newspapers going on this basis and he above all people has no wish to see local newspapers disappear. On the other hand many politicians and indeed BBC bosses would love to see the robust healthy competition and scrutiny of powerful people castrated.

Most TV, radio and indeed internet news comes from newspapers.  The BBC get most of their national and local news, and international news, from newspapers. The level of news will fall off the cliff if the local and national newspapers collapse. The BBC spike stories at national and local level and only include as much as they do because they are shamed into it by a newspaper putting it frontpage day in and day out.  They are shamed into it by RTV or other news service available on digital or Sky covering the story. They are shamed into it especially by Sky News and this was the gift which Rupert Murdoch, and Rupert Murdoch alone, gave to the nation.

The BBC is fine for light entertainment (Strictly Come Dancing), weak on comedy, but not bad on drama, and still ok on sport and Alexander Armstrong quiz shows. But its coverage of politics and news stories has been kept on track only by Sky and newspapers.

The BBC Pension fund is invested in schemes which depend on The Government believing in the global warming hoax. They have distorted news to protect vested interests. There are a legion of examples of this. Most BBC staff are fine people but know they exist in their jobs only so long as they follow the management line. Even loved and trusted news readers such as Suzanne Virdee just ‘disappear’ if they question the BBC management axing of staff in Birmingham.

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2012/03/31/suzanne-virdee-s-departs-bbc-midlands-today-amid-a-poisonous-atmosphere-97319-30663176/

http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2012/04/01/bbc-midlands-today-presenter-suzanne-virdee-considering-legal-action-against-the-bbc-66331-30666912/

It happens almost every year in radio where a BBC presenter will on air take a call or pursue a line which is opposed to the Director-General’s line on a subject. There is no criticism of senior BBC management tolerated, not even in jest.

Many honest BBC journalists do not like this BBC line, but they have families to feed and bills to pay.

http://www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com/2011/01/as-20-year-tv-news-anchorman-peter-sissons-confirms-marxist-bbc-bias-against-britain-why-does-the-bbc-subsidise-the-guardian-to-the-tune-of-100-a-year-per-genuine-guardian-purchaser/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349506/Left-wing-bias-Its-written-BBCs-DNA-says-Peter-Sissons.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Robin Aitken worked in BBC news for 25 years.

You used to regularly see “The BBC’s Robin Aitken travelled to Chernobyl to meet some of the surviving so called ‘liquidators’ – those who helped in the immediate aftermath of the disaster and were exposed to the worst effects of the radiation”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_WEZloX2fQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY4umBmJHjg

Just a few of his stories are listed below but the one missing on the BBC website is his devastating account of BBC bias in news coverage. The biggest competition to the BBC was Rupert Murdoch and the BBC bosses will now enjoy their moment of triumph. If the massive scandal comes out about The BBC, then it may be very short lived. Aitken did not touch on the massive scandal which can destroy any public trust in the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1296340.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2038823.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1382540.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/1368682.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/1325650.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1296340.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/900869.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/794020.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/782445.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/544329.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/363478.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/153378.stm

His book ‘Can We Trust the BBC ?’ is a devastating account of the news bias which the bosses seek to impose on us.

http://www.amazon.com/Can-Trust-BBC-Robin-Aitken/dp/0826494277