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NICKY EARNSHAW

An outsider may think that a budget seems big. You know they might think 5 million pounds is a lot, but you have to consider the various elements that the production is backing into. Say for instance, there may be heavy development costs already attached. There may be big option or writer fees already accounting for a chunk. There could be finance fees that are quite hefty, or producer fees, or director fees indeed. Depending on how big the cast are, they could be quite a chunk of the budget. Sometimes projects come in and there's a disparity between the amount of money they want to make it for and how much it's being valued at by the sales company.

Obviously, that's a process that we can then help them with to get down to where they perhaps need to be. Sometimes that's a fight and sometimes it's not. Sometimes it is easier.