Eric Fellner
Eric Fellner
Eric Fellner, CBE is an English film producer. He is the co-chairmanof the production company Working Title Films...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionProducer
I'm a blind optimist when going into things.
freedom
The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.
Apart from 'Stoned,' I can't think of a film that's made me think, 'Blimey, that should have been at Cannes.'
competition leisure time
There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.
future invest movies somebody
Somebody has to invest in creating the movies of the future.
embodies regardless
'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.
car deal develop great sell
You can't develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.
either five screen ten theory tv ways
My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be, five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie, and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD; that's it - simple.
basis british emulate full money room success tries whether worldwide
If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.
encourage needs studio tv
The U.K. needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.
doe belief resources
So, to me, it does shift, but it goes round. It just keeps going round and round and round. So if you have the longevity you have the belief and you have the resources to just keep at it you just ignore all that and just keep going where you're at.
dvds rights choices
Then something fails and they're all out again, but DVD revenue is disappearing, you know, it's not disappearing but it's going off a cliff and what that's done is it's polarized the industry in a way that I've never seen before where studios are making less, they're bifurcating their choices where they're either going very, very big or they're just picking up a few rights on an acquisition basis or making really small things.
want film middle
That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.
fall dvds film
Now there's always exceptions to that and the reason is if the film doesn't really work, whereas before you could rely on a decent amount of DVD sales to prop up the revenue to ensure that you got out in a decent manner, now if the film doesn't work, the film doesn't work and there's none of that DVD revenue to fall back on and you can lose a huge, huge sum of money on a big budget movie.