The US feature film Leap Year has been green lit to go into production in Ireland at the end of this month. The project was confirmed for Ireland after improvements to the Irish tax incentive for film and television, Section 481, were introduced late last year by Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism Martin Cullen and production has been green lit after the legislation was ratified by the European Commission this week.
Information for the state of West Virginia's Film Industry Investment act has been added to our Benefits & Incentives site today.
Motion picture production spending in British Columbia in 2008 was CAD1.2 billion, an increase of more than CAD250 million over 2007, Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts Bill Bennett announced yesterday.
The Film Distributors' Association have said that admissions rose 1.1% to 164.2 million in 2008 with box office takings up 3.7% to GBP854.4 million. This has been largely attributed to the success of such films as Mamma Mia and The Dark Knight and other big budget franchises like Indiana Jones and James Bond.
Germany's Leipzig-based regional film fund Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) has announced USD4.6 million worth of funds in its first funding session of 2009.
The Georgian National Film Center (GNFC) has announced plans to introduce a tax incentive later this year.
Kofi Annan and David Jones will join forces with Hervé de Clerck at this year's Cannes Lions to discuss the human face of climate change and the role that only the creative community can play in changing Climate Change to Climate Justice.
Australian production house, Luscious International, is launching Viscious, a new division described as a director collaborative.