Hello and welcome to the programme. We're looking at the movie business today, beyond the glamour.

We're peaking backstage at the business of the movie business. It's one of the most fascinating

industries that has evolved a complex structure of production, distribution and exhibition,

with many different models of how a film can be made, financed and shown.

Now that complexity, I I think reflects a key feature

of movies that each film is in effect a new and unique product. So a car producer for example

may launch a new model every year and that may be an incremental advance on the last one. But film

is just one risky fresh product launch after another.

And that has a big effect on the structure of the industry. To understand how the market works

and why it has evolved as it has, let's meet my three guests, who each represent one of the

three main pieces of the supply chain. And my first guest is Elizabeth Carlson, a film producer.

She is co-founder with her husband, Stephen Woolley,

of one of Britain's most successful film production companies,

number nine films.

And Elizabeth, why don't you tell us some of the films he've been involved with?

Most recently, we made Carol,

with starred Cape Lanshatt and Runei Mara that had great awards, box office and cruddle. of the film as he'd been involved with? Most recently we made Carol, we starred Kate Blanchett

and Rooney Mara that had great awards box office and cruddle success. And in the same year,

we co-produced youth, the Palo Sorentino film with Michael Kane and Harvey Kytel. Other credits

range all the way from Crying Game, interviews of Vampire, Maiden, Dagonum, great expectations,

and so on. In the picture of Vampire, Made in Dagonum, Great Expectations, and so on.

In the picture of film producers, where would you put number nine films?

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