What do audiences want, like and watch? That is a question that producers, studios, networks, streamers, stars and others constantly have on their minds.
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s Eastern Promises industry program tried to provide answers on Monday in a session about a recently published European Media Industry Outlook report, presented in the Czech spa town by the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union. The results of the multi-country consumer survey and analysis of streaming and other consumption data in the 27 European Union countries was carried out over the past year to give a comprehensive market overview.
One takeaway: Cinema has been losing ground, as it hasn’t bounced back to pre-covid pandemic box office levels, while streamers have gained, and traditional TV is roughly steady.
After an introduction by European Parliament member Martina Dlabajová, Martin Dawson, deputy head of unit of audiovisual industry and media support programs,...
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s Eastern Promises industry program tried to provide answers on Monday in a session about a recently published European Media Industry Outlook report, presented in the Czech spa town by the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union. The results of the multi-country consumer survey and analysis of streaming and other consumption data in the 27 European Union countries was carried out over the past year to give a comprehensive market overview.
One takeaway: Cinema has been losing ground, as it hasn’t bounced back to pre-covid pandemic box office levels, while streamers have gained, and traditional TV is roughly steady.
After an introduction by European Parliament member Martina Dlabajová, Martin Dawson, deputy head of unit of audiovisual industry and media support programs,...
- 7/3/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Media proposals aim to revitalise the sector in the wake of the pandemic.
A major recovery plan for European cinema and culture will be at the heart of the new iteration of Creative Europe’s Media programme, according to one of its key architects.
Martin Dawson, deputy head of unit for Media and the European Commission, told the European Film Forum on Monday that he had three ambitious goals for the next Creative Europe programme, which is due to begin in January 2021 with an increased budget of €2.2bn.
Speaking via video link at the forum, which took place virtually as...
A major recovery plan for European cinema and culture will be at the heart of the new iteration of Creative Europe’s Media programme, according to one of its key architects.
Martin Dawson, deputy head of unit for Media and the European Commission, told the European Film Forum on Monday that he had three ambitious goals for the next Creative Europe programme, which is due to begin in January 2021 with an increased budget of €2.2bn.
Speaking via video link at the forum, which took place virtually as...
- 11/25/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Proposals for a new German Film Law (Ffg) have been revealed in a “discussion draft” by the State Ministry for Culture and Media (Bkm) a week ahead of a top-level film industry summit in Berlin.
According to the leaked document, the new Ffg - which would come into effect from Jan 1, 2017 - could include a reduction in the number of funding committees administered by the German Federal Film Board (Ffa) from the present six to only three (screenplay and project funding; distribution, sales and video funding; cinema funding), a fairer gender balance in the committees; and a greater professionalisation in the decision-making process by drawing on recognised industry experts.
In addition, the document’s authors suggest that there could be a change to the Ffg’s automatic “reference funding” category where films which have been successful at the German box office or at national and international festivals, can receive funding to invest in new projects.
In future...
According to the leaked document, the new Ffg - which would come into effect from Jan 1, 2017 - could include a reduction in the number of funding committees administered by the German Federal Film Board (Ffa) from the present six to only three (screenplay and project funding; distribution, sales and video funding; cinema funding), a fairer gender balance in the committees; and a greater professionalisation in the decision-making process by drawing on recognised industry experts.
In addition, the document’s authors suggest that there could be a change to the Ffg’s automatic “reference funding” category where films which have been successful at the German box office or at national and international festivals, can receive funding to invest in new projects.
In future...
- 11/11/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Xavier Prats Monné to take a new EC role.
Luxembourg-born Martine Reicherts has been appointed as the new head of the European Commission’s (EC) Directorate-General Education and Culture (Dg Eac) as part of an executive reshuffle.
A lawyer by training, she is the successor to the Spaniard Xavier Prats Monné, who had held the post since last August and will now be taking up a new position as head of the EC’s health and food safety directorate Dg Sante from September.
Reicherts, who had served as the Director-General for the Commission’s Luxembourg-based Publications Office (aka Dg Op) since August 2007, will be responsible at Dg Eac for the EC policies in the fields of culture, youth and sports as well as for the Creative Europe programme.
The changes in the Commission’s reshuffle also sees Robert Madelin, who had been responsible as Director-General for Communications, Networks, Content and Technology at Dg Cnect, becoming a Senior...
Luxembourg-born Martine Reicherts has been appointed as the new head of the European Commission’s (EC) Directorate-General Education and Culture (Dg Eac) as part of an executive reshuffle.
A lawyer by training, she is the successor to the Spaniard Xavier Prats Monné, who had held the post since last August and will now be taking up a new position as head of the EC’s health and food safety directorate Dg Sante from September.
Reicherts, who had served as the Director-General for the Commission’s Luxembourg-based Publications Office (aka Dg Op) since August 2007, will be responsible at Dg Eac for the EC policies in the fields of culture, youth and sports as well as for the Creative Europe programme.
The changes in the Commission’s reshuffle also sees Robert Madelin, who had been responsible as Director-General for Communications, Networks, Content and Technology at Dg Cnect, becoming a Senior...
- 7/28/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Hosts of Michel Hazanavicius’s The Search and Transporter 3 set to add rebates; Ukraine to join Creative Europe framework.
Georgia and Ukraine are set to become the latest countries to introduce tax incentives in order to attract foreign productions to shoot in their locations.
Speaking at this week’s Film Industry Office forum in Odessa, David Vashadze, head of export and distribution at the Georgian National Film Center (Gnfc), revealed that a tax rebate scheme will be launched from next January.
Foreign producers wishing to benefit from the scheme will be required to reach a minimum of spend of $300,000 in Georgia and fulfil a minimum of three days of shooting in the country.
The minimum spend will be reduced to $150,000 for documentary projects.
The rebate would be 20% of the qualifying expenses and an additional 2% could be paid if there are more Georgian elements such as the hiring of local cast or the promotion of Georgian culture...
Georgia and Ukraine are set to become the latest countries to introduce tax incentives in order to attract foreign productions to shoot in their locations.
Speaking at this week’s Film Industry Office forum in Odessa, David Vashadze, head of export and distribution at the Georgian National Film Center (Gnfc), revealed that a tax rebate scheme will be launched from next January.
Foreign producers wishing to benefit from the scheme will be required to reach a minimum of spend of $300,000 in Georgia and fulfil a minimum of three days of shooting in the country.
The minimum spend will be reduced to $150,000 for documentary projects.
The rebate would be 20% of the qualifying expenses and an additional 2% could be paid if there are more Georgian elements such as the hiring of local cast or the promotion of Georgian culture...
- 7/17/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Top row from left: Lisa Anastos, Sharon Stone, Fern Mallis, and Alec Baldwin and Claire Evans. Bottom row from left: Zani Gugelmann, Fabiola Beracasa, and assorted performers. From PatrickMcMullan.com. On Saturday night, stepping into Paradiso, Robert Wilson’s 17th annual Watermill Summer benefit, was truly like stepping into another world. The air was thick with woody smoke from nearby torches as guests found themselves in a heady environment of mysterious beauty, surrounded by performers and otherworldly sounds that seemed to echo from every direction. Walking toward the Watermill Center, benefit chair Lisa Anastos and Patrick McMullan encountered white gorillas performing glacially paced movements and handing out leaves doused in Loc Dong’s heady Paradiso perfume. As children looked on, a performer suspended herself just below the canopy of trees outside the center, balancing on yards of white silk as she folded herself into graceful arabesques. One of the most...
- 7/26/2010
- Vanity Fair
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