The UK government has launched a “call for evidence” on how to boost the film and high-end TV tax credits, in an effort to retain VFX business in the country. UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the plans as part of his autumn statement today (November 22), his address to the House of Commons on the state […]
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India has considerably enhanced incentives for filming in the country. The Indian federal government will reimburse up to 40% of qualifying production expenditure, up from the 30% level that was announced when the incentives were revealed at Cannes last year. The cap limit for the reimbursement has also been significantly raised from a maximum of INR25 million ($300,000) to […]
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Climate change has been on the minds of many, lately. The National Climate Assessment, compiled by numerous federal agencies, indicates that adverse weather events have spiked across the United States in the last decade – increased hurricanes in the Southeast, a higher frequency of droughts in the Midwest, and near-annual fires in West – due, […]
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The two biggest takeaways from the announcement last week that Mediapro Studios in collaboration with Great Point Studios, broke ground on a $100 million, 20,000 square foot studio at 1500 North Broadway are: The new studio marks the third in Yonkers in three years, and the hope is to create an Eastern Seaboard hub for […]
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As part of New York City Mayor Eric Adams‘ “Working People’s Tour,” Adams was joined Wednesday in Sunnyside, Queens by labor leaders and film and TV partners to break ground on a new production studio that will create almost 1,000 construction jobs and around 750 permanent, full-time jobs. The construction on East End Studios Sunnyside commences following the […]
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David Greene started making movies at the height of the boom. It was 2015, and Vancouver’s film industry was riding a wave of demand for new shows, fuelled by the advent of streaming platforms. Yellowjackets, The Good Doctor and the TV adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events were all filmed here. The rush created thousands of jobs, including that […]
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Netflix‘s reigning most popular series, Wednesday, is headed to a new locale. The upcoming second season of the Addams Family offshoot will be filmed in Ireland, sources tell Deadline. Details are still being firmed up, but I hear start of production is tentatively slated for late April. Season 1 of Wednesday, starring Jenna Ortega in the title role, was shot in Romania from […]
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Production Assistants United is a new group hoping to unionize production assistants in the Film and Television industry. Could we see Hollywood labor struggles intensify further in the near future?Building on the momentum of the newly-chartered IATSE Local 111, which represents thousands of commercial production workers across the country, production assistants in the Film and […]
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Apple TV+ Europe commissioner Tom Williams is leaving the streamer after a year to join the expanding BBC Studios Drama Productions team. Williams was part of Jay Hunt’s European commissioning team, having joined from indie Wall to Wall towards the end of last year. His departure runs contrary to the trend of recent years in the UK, which has […]
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In Hollywood, fears about AI have been widespread among striking actors and writers. But the alarm may be misplaced. “It’s important to understand that technology always augments humans, and the story of Hollywood has been marred by moments like this before,” Cristóbal Valenzuela, CEO of AI video company Runway, said at the Yahoo Finance Invest conference on Tuesday. […]
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