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Dateline: 22nd February, 2006
£100m for Film from the BBC Over the next ten years the BBC is to invest £100m in film. Assuming that the government allows a "favourable" licence fee, the corporation will increase its investment in film production from £10m a year to - at least - £15m. At the same time it will spend at least £50m to acquire the broadcast rights to other British films. Recently the BBC has invested in a range of films such as Billy Elliot, Mrs Henderson Presents and Match Point and has obtained broadcast rights to Bend It Like Beckham, Chicken Run, Bridget Jones's Diary and BAFTA-winning Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit. Jana Bennett, the BBC's director of television, said, "Films make a huge contribution to the mix of content on offer to British TV viewers. By investing this acquisition money in UK films, we are ensuring that television audiences have access to a mix of movies which includes the very best of British." In the BAFTA Awards, announced on Sunday, Wallace and Gromit was the only British film to be honoured, except in the technical categories and The Carl Foreman Award, which is specifically for achievement in British cinema. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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