All Finance articles – Page 75
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NewsBFI to certify TV, animation, games tax credit applicants
The British Film Institute (BFI) has been appointed by the UK government as the certification unit for the upcoming creative content tax reliefs, spanning high-end TV, animation and video games.
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NewsQED partners on Bruce Lee film
Bill Block’s QED International will fully finance and jointly produce with Michael London’s Groundswell Productions Birth Of The Dragon.
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Ireland boosts tax incentives
Ireland is to extend its Section 481 tax credit to 32% of qualifying expenditure from 2015.
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NewsQED boards Ayer’s Fury
The preemptive move is based on a speculative script by David Ayer, with whom QED International collaborates on the upcoming Arnold Schwarzenegger action thriller Ten.
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NewsBFI earmarks $1.6m for co-pros
Isabel Davis, the British Film Institute’s head of international, is in Berlin spreading the word about the BFI Film Fund’s increased commitment to funding co-productions.
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NewsParticipant, DFI in $100m fund
Participant Media and Doha Film Institute (DFI) announced a $100m revolving fund on Wednesday [13] to back what is expected to be 12-16 features over five years.
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NewsFranco-German co-pro treaty extended
Since its founding in 2001, the “mini-traité” has been financed by the FFA and CNC with €1.5m annually, backing more than 90 Franco-German co-productions.
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NewsFlanders Fund backs projects including Roskam gangster thriller
Belgian auteur Felix van Groeningen’s new feature Belgica is also among the projects to receive support from the VAF.
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NewsCreative Europe in sight
EXCLUSIVE: Creative Europe has come one step nearer after the 27 EU leaders agreed on Friday in Brussels to an overall $1.3tn (€960bn) budget for 2014-20.
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NewsNew Czech film fund launched
The new Fund is expected have approximately €8m ($11m a year) at its disposal; this year’s EFM contains screenings of several Czech productions and coproductions, including IFFR Tiger winner My Dog Killer [pictured].
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NewsFuture of Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund secured
This year’s Berlinale programme features two WCF-funded films: Harmony Lessons and Workers.
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NewsMauritius launches 30% film tax incentive
EXCLUSIVE: Island nation also plans to sign co-production treaties.
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NewsEurimages reboots distribution fund
Eurimages is to re-launch a distribution fund that will benefit seven countries without access to the EU’s MEDIA Programme.
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NewsBerlin gets $93m fest boost
Berlin’s economy is to receive a $93m (€69m) boost over the 11 days of the Berlinale, according to a report by the Investitionsbank Berlin.
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NewsScreen Yorkshire sets 2013 target
Through its Yorkshire Content Fund, Screen Yorkshire plans to invest around £3.5m in TV, film, digital and games projects.
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NewsNorwegian Film Institute boosts co-pro funding
Funding for co-productions increases to $2.9m (NOK 16m) from 2012’s $2m (NOK 11m).
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NewsLegend3D secures $8m funding
Visual effects and conversion company Legend3D announced this week [Feb 4] that it had closed an $8m Series B Preferred Stock offering.
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NewsJames Cameron wins Avatar "theft" lawsuit
Twentieth Century Fox announced on Tuesday [5] that James Cameron has won a lawsuit against Gerald Morawski, who claimed that the film-maker had used his ideas to create Avatar.
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NewseOne, 1984 Private Defense Contractors sign first-look deal
Under the terms of the multi-year arrangement eOne gets first look to finance and distribute all 1984 films. LA-based Spencer Silna and Adi Shankar’s slate includes Corsica ’72 from Skyfall writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade and the untitled Female Expendables project.
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NewsBFI reports fall in UK production spend; indie investment up
The British Film Institute (BFI) has reported a 29% drop in UK production spend following a record-breaking 2011 but an upsurge of investment in British independent films.