Different process between American and English directing companies

There is one clear difference between the two, the film budget this probbally determines whether the film may be a success or not, well that's too critical but the funding of the films will help make the film better in many different ways. The budget of the film makes everything happen though. The more money the higher payed actors you can hire, better filming sets etc. A big film like Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix had the budget of around £4.5 million and had no really well known actors, also most of the actors where mostly children and the set was mainly outdoors so would not of had to pay a high price to rent the areas out whereas a US film like Spiderman 2 which was wasn't a four quadrant film but still had a budget of $200 million, and would of been able to hire in some well known actors and some well known spots in Manhattan these would of attracted an audience.

There is some brilliant british actors and directors, but they all move to the US for the high pay that is over there. This is part the reason that there is not much as much success that comes from Britain because everything is pretty much produced in America. I think that if we had some more funding behind a British plot that we could create some great british films there has been some like, Shaun of the Dead, Slum dog millionaire, Hot Fuzz and much more.

A reason for American films making money as well as them having a massive budget, is down to the budget. They will have money to spend on advertising posters, television adverts, websites for the film, all of this will encourage the population to come and watch the film also the films will have all sorts of merchandise that will be sold everywhere you will not be able to get away from it, you got to eat you get a free toy, your travelling to work theres a poster on the bus shelter, you go to shop and there's clothes out as-well, the list goes on. One of the most well known highest budget British films ever was the Harry Potter series, this had a large budget though for a UK film all the filming was set in the UK, Harry Potter has been played by Daniel Radcliffe, who was unheard off before starting to film for Harry Potter, was this because he was a young actor or to save money ? I think the reason that this film got a lot larger budget is because of the fact that it came out as the book series first, this can be risky though. In 2004 American director Brad Silberling produced Lemony Snicket's A series of unfortunate events which had a budget of $140 million which is fairly low for a dreamwork production, but even though the film had all the advertising. I thought that the film plot and the film plot where slightly different as you can expect, but i thought the film was a flop.

Overall I would say that the American side of the production is more successful only because of the budgeting though, because there is British directors and actors working out there. They can just afford to hire out people who have bigger names, special effects teams who make the films have that extra bit sometimes. But the money doesn't always make the film work as I said about A series of unfortunate events earlier.