THREE KEY FACTS: Netflix spent US$17 million ($28.2m) for the world rights to the buzzy horror-comedy It’s What’s Inside. Box-office revenues for British and Irish independent films were down a whopping 49% in 2023.
The Sundance festival accepted only 83 films this year, down from over 100 the year before. Tim Robey is a film critic from the Telegraph. OPINION Grown-up dramas and eccentric comedies made far from Hollywood are an endangered species.
But without them, the future of film looks bleak..
