| Eddie Marsan, Timothy Spall, Jim Broadbent … all have benefited from the unlikely conveyor belt that stretches directly from the sets of Mike Leigh movies and into the studio backlots of Los Angeles. |
| Instead, she winds up in one of those squeaky clean, multicultural turn-of-the-century New York neighborhoods that only existed, so far as we know, on studio backlots. |
| The studios have acres of backlots where huge sets have been built, from castles to whole villages including Godric's Hollow from the Harry Potter film series. |
| In a film genre simply awash with studio backlots and blue screen trickery, this film has its own distinctive look. |
| The studios also have two large backlots, which have recently been used to create two castle compounds for the film 47 Ronin. |
| His 1941 book What Makes Sammy Run?, about a hustler who schmoozes and backstabs his way to the top, was considered by many to be the classic insider's guide to the studio system and made him a pariah on the backlots. |
