Movies can be funded a number of ways:
Studios - The Hollywood Studios (Universal, Paramount etc) finance the movies with their own cash, bank loans, and through investment from a number of wealthy...
ITV is funded by advertising and sponsorship, BBC by the government from the collection of licence fees. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_is_ITV_and_BBC_funded#ixzz1cXWfxA73
The comparison between public funding and privately funded prisons is public funded comes from your tax dollars that is voted on by your state legislature that allocates money for the running of...