Archive for category Spain
Hollywood Investment In Spanish Co-Productions Paying Off
Posted by BrianDzyak in Spain, Tax Incentives, United States on May 18, 2016
Emiliano De Pablos Hollywood studios are putting the pedal to the metal on film co-production in Spain, and finding the fruit of a global strategy of deeply embedding into local film industries. The Hollywood majors’ interest comes as the local market share for Spanish movies shot up to new highs of 25.5% in 2014 and […]
Spanish cinema fraud revealed as subsidy inspectors find empty theatres
Posted by BrianDzyak in Spain on December 5, 2015
Film producers and cinema owners have been in cahoots to fake the numbers of tickets sold in order for Spanish films to hit the magic 60,000-viewer mark so that government subsidies will be paid out. By James Badcock, Madrid Leading figures from Spain’s film industry are accused of having been cooking the books for years in order […]
Film Biz on the Canary Islands Takes Flight as Tax Breaks Lure Producers
Posted by BrianDzyak in Spain, Tax Incentives on May 17, 2015
John Hopewell International Correspondent The film biz is aflutter in Spain’s Canary Islands. Led by blockbuster “Spanish Affair,” movies made in the Atlantic Ocean archipelago last year punched an extraordinary 25.5% market share in Spain, their best since 1977. In November, Spain’s industry, diminished by crisis and uncertainty about future subsidies, received another ray of […]
Alicante’s Ciudad de la Luz film studio sell-off draws Hollywood big guns
Posted by BrianDzyak in Spain on February 14, 2015
Francis Ford Coppola among interested buyers of publicly financed studio which has struggled to attract production companies It was to be a Mediterranean Hollywood, but in a few days the complex once described by the director Ridley Scott as “the best facilities in the world” is scheduled to be sold off in lots to the […]
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