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the STATS an overview of the film, television, video and DVD industries 1990 - 2003 contents THIS PDF IS FULLY NAVIGABLE BY USING THE “BOOKMARKS” FACILITY IN ADOBE ACROBAT READER Introduction by David Sharp . i Introduction to 1st edition (2003) by Ray Templeton . .ii Preface by Philip Wickham . .iii the STATS 1990 . .1 1991 . .14 1992 . 32 1993 . 54 1994 . .74 1995 . .92 1996 . .112 1997 . .136 1998 . .163 1999 . .188 2000 . .220 2001 . .251 2002 . .282 2003 . .310 Cumulative Tables . .341 Country Codes . .351 Bibliography . .352 Research: Erinna Mettler/Philip Wickham Design/Tabulation: Ian O’Sullivan Additional Research: Matt Ker Elena Marcarini Bibliography: Elena Marcarini © 2006 BFI INFORMATION SERVICES BFI NATIONAL LIBRARY 21 Stephen Street London W1T 1LN ISBN: 1-84457-017-7 Phil Wickham is an Information Officer in the Information Services Unit of the BFI National Library. He writes and lectures extensively on British film and television. Erinna Mettler is an Information Officer in the Information Services Unit of the National Library and has contributed to numerous publications. Ian O’Sullivan is also an Information Officer in the Information Services Unit of the BFI National Library and has designed a number of publications for the BFI. Information Services BFI National Library British Film Institute 21 Stephen Street London W1T 1LN Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7255 1444 Fax: + 44 (0) 20 7436 0165 Contact us at www.bfi.org.uk/ask with your film and television enquiries. Alternatively, telephone +44 (0) 20 7255 1444 and ask for Information (Mon-Fri: 10am-1pm & 2-5pm) Try the BFI website for film and television information 24 hours a day, 52 weeks a year… Film & TV Info – www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo - contains a range of information to help find answers to your queries. Film Links Gateway – www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/gateway - provides annotated links to other useful websites Details about the BFI National Library can be found at www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/library Search the book catalogue online at www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/library/catalogue Acknowledgements Much of the research that informs The STATS has come from the Information Unit’s work over the years compiling the statistics for The BFI Film & Television Handbook. We would like to thank the Handbook editor, Eddie Dyja and Sean Delaney and his Library Services staff. This work would not have been possible without the co-operation of a number of bodies who have provided us with information since 1991. This particularly includes Screen Finance magazine, Screen Digest magazine and, in many cases, film producers and distributors themselves. All reasonable measures have been taken to ensure the accuracy of information in The STATS but the publisher cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions or any liability resulting from the use or misuse of such information. Introduction to 2nd edition (2006) The vogue for measuring activity of all sorts is a constant presence in today’s moving image industry, and as that industry starts to deliver its product in more diverse ways it becomes increasingly important to be able to make comparisons across time. One of the problems that besets any researcher as they set out to make these kinds of comparisons is knowing where to start given the variety of sources for the data and the fact that there is inevitably a mix of publicly available information and some that has to be obtained from more specialized sources. The beauty of the publication you are now looking at is that it brings all of these together in one source and has been re-edited to make them all available in a single volume, drawing upon the annual tables and other material previously published in the bfi Film and Televi- sion Handbooks, including the final, separate volumes from 2005. The Stats also represents a historical period in the art of collecting and collating statistics which reflects the period before the responsibility for collecting some of these statistics passed to the UK Film Council’s Statistics Unit, and for commercial television from ITC to OFCOM. Students and other researchers will find this an invaluable resource for an overview of the years in question as will those in the industry keen to consider the past when they plan for the future. We are grateful to everyone who has supported this research in the past, including col- leagues and former colleagues who worked hard gathering the raw data. Finally I would like to point out that many of the sources used continue to be collected and made available via our Reading Room and via Information Services, and there are of course other newer sources that are also available. David Sharp Deputy Head (User Services) BFI National Library June 2006 BFI Information Services i Introduction to 1st edition (2003) The BFI Film and Television Handbook has been an fixture on the desks of many people in these industries for many years. Over the years, its summaries of the key industry statis- tics have developed into essential reading for everybody from experienced professionals to casual browsers. While the directory sections of the Handbook can go out of date fairly quickly as companies and organisations move or go out of business, or as new ones start up, most of the industry statistics never do. They’re no longer last year’s hot figures, but they gather both historical and commercial value as time series build up and a retrospective view is formed. In some respects you could say that they become more useful rather than less. But not everybody wants to keep a shelf full of old bfi Handbooks in their office, and having the data dispersed like that is inconvenient and unhelpful. What somebody needs to do is to bring them all together in a single volume. Which brings us to “The Stats”. Here we have all of the relevant tables, all of the important figures, with the kind of thoughtful organisation and expert analysis that can only derive from years of experience, a thorough knowledge and understanding of the film and televi- sion business and a ready familiarity with the kinds of questions that people in the indus- tries need to be asking. The Information Services staff of the BFI National Library can bring all of those things, and that is what makes “The Stats” so special. This is a new venture for us, but it’s one that we feel confident will deliver what many people in Film and Television are looking for. Ray Templeton Head of Library and Education 2003 BFI Information Services ii PREFACE by Philip Wickham INTRODUCTION We are enormously grateful to all these organisations for their support over the Over the last ten years the Information years in ensuring that the handbook is a Service in the bfi National Library has definitive source of information, bringing compiled the statistics section of the BFI together data from a variety of sources to Film & Television Handbook. This report create an annual snapshot of the media gathers together this decade of data to industry. provide The STATS - an overview of the film, Sources that have helped us shed light television, video and DVD industries in the on the media in Britain, and sometimes UK as they grew between 1990 and 2001. elsewhere, are as follows: We reproduce the statistics from each handbook, year by year as they appeared. FILM PRODUCTION Following this are cumulative charts and tables, which trace the development of the Our annual round up of films produced industry by showing how figures dealing each year with any British involvement has with cinemas, audiences, and TV channels traditionally used data on companies, titles changed in this period. and budgets published by Screen Finance magazine, which is published every two Over ten years some tables in the bfi Film weeks by Informa Media. In the last 2-3 & Television Handbook have come and years we have supplemented this by looking gone. This is due to the transformation at The British Council’s self-entry website of media markets in an era of increasing www.britfilms.com and our own records globalisation, fluctuating economic and contacts. The weekly trade paper Screen conditions and the vagaries of consumer International is also valuable as it carries taste. Some tables were based on areas a weekly list of films currently shooting of interest that were public talking points in the UK. We interpret all the findings for a few years then seemed to pass, such by organising them into our own, unique as complaints on particular programmes category system based on degrees of British to the Broadcasting Standards Council. In involvement. other cases industry change made them redundant – there becomes little point in This sees British films, or films made in a table showing ITV regional companies Britain, as falling into one of the following contributions to the network when the groups: same two companies own most of them – or the data became elusive, as with European CATEGORY A – Feature films where the production investment or satellite channel cultural and financial impetus is from the subscriptions. UK and where the majority of personnel are British. However the bulk of the tables have stayed remarkably consistent –we will always want CATEGORY B – Majority UK Co-productions. to know what films or programmes were Films in which, although there are foreign made, how much money they earned and partners, there is a UK cultural content and who went to see them. a significant amount of British finance and personnel. SOURCES CATEGORY C – Minority UK Co-Productions. Foreign (non US) films in which there is a As the tables have stayed largely consistent small UK financial involvement.

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