The public sector spending cuts will bite again on budgets that have already been pared back to the bone.
A much-ballyhooed report was published about the pressure on budgets that can be expected from an ageing population over the next 40 years.
When he started making feature films, he ranged broadly through subject matter on budgets that would have been too low to produce a good army movie.
Even with public subsidies, a fixture of filmmaking across Europe, the high cost of making 3-D movies remains a problem for European producers, which operate on budgets that are only a small fraction of a typical Hollywood outlay.
Many of the films that did well on Sunday night were made on budgets that would not finance the craft services budgets of the popcorn films that constitute the primary business of Hollywood.
To create those shows for such little money, the Chocolate Factory has minted a minimalist aesthetic -- simple sets, basic costumes and lighting, actors often playing two or more roles -- on budgets that are on par with major not-for-profit Off Broadway theaters.
On Poverty Row, many Bs were made on budgets that would have barely covered petty cash on a major's A film, with costs at the bottom of the industry running as low as $5,000.
Such is the pressure on budgets that some elderly care contracts are now tendered through reverse eBay style auctions, in which providers underbid each other live online.
Movies in his industry, by contrast, are often made in a few weeks, and on budgets that a major studio may spend on coffee and pastries, so piracy is not taken quite as seriously.
He said that he was hoping not only for an on-time budget — that would mean June 30th — but "the earliest budget ever".
