Notes :

• A key example of a low-medium budget film production and US / UK co-production and distribution.
• New Line Cinema is an American film production studio which was founded in 1967 as well as being the distributor of Blinded By The Light film. New Line Cinema is associated with ‘indie’ films and is a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment. This altogether being part of the global conglomerate of WarnerMedia.
• This low budget production cost around $15 million and was co-funded by New Line Cinema, as well as other production companies such as Levantine Films, Bend it Films and Ingenious Media.
• Bruce Springsteen’s music is featured in getting the film financed and in the marketing of the film.
• The use of film festivals in finding distribution deals for films
• • Use of traditional marketing and distribution techniques; trailers, posters, film festivals etc.
  • Marketing techniques such as use of genre, nostalgia, identity, social consciousness
  • Distribution techniques – reliance on new technology; VOD, streaming
  • Regulation of the industry through BBFC (British Board of Film Classification).
  • Regulation including Livingstone and Lunt
• A ‘feel goof jukebox musical film’ – description of Blinded by the Light film.
• The director of the musical was by Grinder Chadha. She is a British director known for Bend it Like Beckham.
• A mixture of independent and major production / distribution contexts, targeting towards a different audience to ‘indie’.
• Historical context is displayed by the film being based upon a true story. For example of a Pakistani boy growing up in the UK in the 1980s.