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IN FOCUS AWARDS COUNTDOWN ANALYSIS FESTIVAL LANDSCAPE FESTIVAL FOCUS TORONTO Popular R with Manchester By The Sea, and an origi- umblings of discontent have In the short term, Venice has bene- Several names were floated as poten- Black Panther nal screenplay nod for The Big Sick earlier been heard this year about A-list festivals: Berlin, Cannes, Venice and Toronto fited from Cannes’ position, snagging tial successors to the Berlinale’s long- GALAS this year. Amazon Studios’ present crop the programming and jury the world premieres of Alfonso Cuaron’s serving artistic director Dieter Kosslick. controversy includes Steve Carell and Timothée choices of the A-list festivals. ROMA and Paul Greengrass’s 22 July — These included Cameron Bailey from Chalamet in father-son drug drama “Victory for Adina Pintilie’s humourless two films that were in a prime position Toronto, Rajendra Roy, chief curator of Beautiful Boy (US) Beautiful Boy, which could bring Belgian and clumsy documentary essay under- for a Cannes slot. Film at MoMA, and Bero Beyer, artistic Dir Felix van Groeningen director Felix van Groeningen to the scores Berlin’s status as a festival that “It’s impossible to keep a conservative director of International Film Festival attention of a much wider audience. Mike promotes the dull and valueless,” wrote position in front of these new players,” Rotterdam. In the end, Locarno’s artistic Following Berlin and Sundance pre- Leigh’s Venice-bound Peterloo and Dan UK newspaper The Guardian of says Venice’s artistic director Alberto director, Carlo Chatrian, was chosen. He mieres respectively for his last two fea- Fogelman’s Life Itself, which premieres in the Romanian Golden Bear winner, Barbera, who has himself come under will take up the job in May, concentrat- tures The Broken Circle Breakdown It looks set to be an awards season like no other, Toronto, are also eagerly anticipated. Touch Me Not. fire for programming just one film by a ing on the artistic side of the festival (a best foreign-language film Oscar with prestige studio titles up against arthouse Annapurna Pictures could pack a Many festival delegates expressed dis- woman director in the main competition while Mariette Rissenbeek, presently the nominee) and Belgica, the Belgian direc- TORONTO PREVIEW punch this season. Its roster includes may about Cannes Film Festival’s stand- this year. He says it is in traditional managing director of German Films, tor brings his English-language debut to curios — and the Oscars’ baffling new popular Northern Nicole Kidman in Karyn Kusama’s crime off with Netflix in May, which meant exhibitors’ interests to “make innovative will serve alongside him as executive Toronto. Van Groeningen and Luke film category. Jeremy Kay reports thriller Destroyer, Jacques Audiard’s The some of the most eagerly anticipated proposals” about how best now to director. Davies (Lion) adapted the film from Sisters Brothers, and the tentatively titled titles of the year were not shown on the release films rather than to engage in a Chatrian’s appointment has been father-and-son memoirs: David Sheff ’s Dick Cheney drama Backseat starring Croisette: the SVoD giant could not war of attrition with the streaming plat- broadly welcomed. “Carlo is a cinephile account of his family dealing with their B exposure y the time the curtain goes up gist who has worked with the studios for Christian Bale, which Adam McKay is guarantee that the films would receive forms (see page 33). and he listens,” says Ritter. “He is son’s methamphetamine addiction, and at the opening ceremony of years. Like every expert canvassed by the local theatrical window required by Meanwhile, Harriet Harper-Jones, not about his persona or his ego — he Nic Sheff ’s own Tweak. Steve Carell and Green Book this year’s Venice Film Festi- Screen International, they asked to remain the French industry, and the festival acquisitions and development manager is always about the films and the Timothée Chalamet star. Dede Gardner, val, distributors and awards anonymous. “If I were Disney, I would be ‘I’m hopeful the new bowed to local pressure. at leading UK arthouse distributor and filmmakers.” Jeremy Kleiner and Brad Pitt produce for strategists will have just about picked concerned voters pop that film into that younger and more The gender imbalance among film- exhibitor Curzon, suggests this year’s Jean-Christophe Simon, CEO of sales Plan B; Amazon Studios has US rights. their jaws off the floor after the Academy new category and leave it off the best pic- makers chosen for official selection is Venice selection feels like “Old Cannes”. agent Films Boutique, agrees: “It looks Contact Amazon Studios of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ture category. If Paramount gets serious diverse voters will allow increasingly, and embarrassingly, appar- The Horizons sidebar is “incredibly contact-us@amazonstudios.com unveiled what must rank as one of its about Mission: Impossible — Fallout, then for more populist movies ent. Programmers have been accused of cinephilic and auteur-driven”, with The major North American launchpad ‘Festivals Green Book (US) most radical rule changes in recent that gets into the mix there too.” to be considered’ being too populist and mainstream in “other strands being a lot more main- for awards season is packed with hot memory. The announcement in early Whatever the case, Coogler’s film is US studio executive their choices, or not populist and main- stream and international”. must adapt, Dir Peter Farrelly August that the 91st Oscars telecast on regarded by awards observers as one to stream enough. Harper-Jones does not believe festivals even reset contenders including new films from February 24, 2019 will include an award watch this season. Of the others regarded are falling out of touch with the industry. Farrelly, who along with brother Bobby themselves’ Claire Denis and Nicole Holofcener for outstanding achievement in popular as potential heavyweights in this early still working on. Sony also has Matthew ‘Festivals are “There is continued symbiosis between Anaïs Emery, NIFFF created comedies There’s Something film came as a bolt out of the blue, taking stage populated by known unknowns, McConaughey in Yann Demange’s ’71 them,” she counters, pointing to initia- About Mary and Dumb And Dumber, even seasoned campaigners and studio there are several studio contenders, the follow-up White Boy Rick, while Fox the make- tives such as Cannes’ Next VR platform, moves into serious territory with this executives by surprise. now inevitable presence of the streaming Searchlight could make some noise with or-break the various talent labs at the festivals and to me a very natural change for Berlin.” drama based on the life of jazz musician Ostensibly a move by the Academy to giants, and a serious roster from Megan Melissa McCarthy in a more versatile the more flexible programming that saw He expects Chatrian to “continue the tra- Don Shirley. Viggo Mortensen stars as make the ailing Oscars telecast seem Ellison’s ambitious Annapurna Pictures. role as celebrity biographer, forger and element in titles such as the Twin Peaks and Top Of dition of Berlin being a political festival the driver responsible for chauffeuring more relevant to younger viewers, observ- thief Lee Israel in Can You Ever Forgive the career The Lake TV series screened in Cannes favouring discoveries”. Shirley (Moonlight Oscar winner Maher- ers say the new category could damage Early contenders and Lady Gaga (in her first major film tures a strong female cast led by Viola Me?. The studio might also fancy its of arthouse films’ last year. “The festivals are responding to Many point out none of the major shala Ali) around segregated southern the show’s reputation for championing Among the anticipated early runners are ‘If I were Disney, I would role) sing live, and the film could make a Davis. 20th Century Fox distributes. chances with Venice premiere The Old Thorsten Ritter, Beta Cinema the desire of viewership.” A-list festivals have a female artistic America in the 1960s. Universal will High Life Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy smaller, independent films (which is not Universal’s Venice opener First Man be concerned voters pop lot of noise. Friends of Sony are similarly “I’m hopeful the new younger and Man & The Gun, a curio now that Robert director — and most of them never release in the US in November; eOne in always the case — studio films get recog- from Damien Chazelle, which sees the talking up Jason Reitman’s The Front more diverse voters will allow for more Redford has declared it will be his final Importance of curation have done. They suggest unconscious the UK next February. make its international premiere at Globe nomination for star Julia Louis- Life Itself (US-Sp) occupying forces led by Edward I and nition too). Of greater concern is the pos- youngest-ever winner of the best direct- Black Panther into that Runner starring Hugh Jackman as flawed populist movies and varied movies to be acting role. It matters because securing a slot at Scottish thriller Calibre finally premiered val like Cannes is committed to, which is The programming choices of the major bias can still slip into programming deci- Contact Lionsgate internationalsales@ Toronto. The 1930s-set action thriller CLOSING FILM Dreyfus, Holofcener returns with new Dir Dan Fogelman his volatile son, the Prince of Wales. FESTIVAL sibility that whenever a studio tentpole ing Oscar for La La Land return to the new category and leave 1988 presidential candidate Gary Hart. considered,” says one top studio execu- Focus Features also has the gay conver- Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Venice or at Edinburgh International Film Festival introducing really great cinema to the festivals, Cannes in particular, resonate sions. lionsgate.com revolves around a young man (Eddie Jeremiah Terminator feature The Land Of Steady Habits. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Florence Pugh transcends its genre roots and appears fray. The studio also has US rights on it off the best picture list’ Several strategists agree the influx of tive before the Academy announced its sion therapy drama Boy Erased with Toronto is often crucial to the distribu- this June to rave reviews and then audience,” Cakarel says. “It should be culturally beyond the industry vortex of “If you want to achieve diversity in the Peng) who returns home to avenge an LeRoy (Can-US-UK) Based on the book by Ted Thompson, Fogelman made his feature debut with and Billy Howle round out the key cast worthy of a shot at the senior Oscar cate- Participant Media’s Toronto premiere new Academy members could influence ‘popular film’ award. In contrast, another Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Rus- tion chances of an arthouse or even an streamed on Netflix only days later. completely independent of the commer- each event. “Its curation is extraordi- programme, you have to work on the The Hate U Give (US) old murder case. Liao Fan (Berlin best Dir Justin Kelly the film stars Ben Mendelsohn as a resi- 2015’s Al Pacino-starrer Danny Collins, on the opening night gala presentation, US awards-season strategist gories, it will be exiled to a populist ghetto. Green Book from Peter Farrelly, a race voting patterns. “This is the year for the campaigner posits the Academy invita- sell Crowe, while a feisty Bleecker Street independent film. When faced with com- “Many would say, ‘This film deserved cial considerations of release windows.” nary,” director Jane Campion said of diversity of the programming team Dir George Tillman Jr actor for Black Coal, Thin Ice in 2014) and dent of an affluent Connecticut town but is best known as the creator of hit which shot in Scotland and is produced SHAKEDOWN Eligibility requirements and further drama starring Viggo Mortensen and focus to be back on diversity with the new tions are “cosmetic” and that not every- slate includes Sundance pick-up Colette petition from the SVoD streamers, the to play in the theatres and find regular Some fervent admirers of Cannes Cannes last year. “It really has such because each programmer is biased by Jiang himself also star in this follow-up Laura Dern stars as Laura Albert, the lit- who is overtaken by a need to shake up NBC series This Is Us. His latest film is a by Sihma Film. Outlaw King opens in details on who will vote for the new Acad- Mahershala Ali. assets for another year of earnings calls, Academy members,” says one strategist, one will accept membership. “You’ve got starring Keira Knightley, Debra Granik’s declining pre-sales market and the crisis distributors around the world.’ But this is believe the festival — and other A-list beautiful high standards of enjoying their own experience. It depends on the Adapted by Audrey Wells (A Dog’s Pur- to the loose trilogy that includes Let The erary hoaxer who created the persona of his life. Netflix has fully financed the drama spanning generations and conti- select theatres and launches globally on emy Award were not forthcoming at time Annapurna has If Beale Street Could even if an R rating might preclude The who notes Black Panther “has something good optics but are these people actually Leave No Trace with Ben Foster and new- facing arthouse distribution, independ- where we are headed now,” says Beta’s events — are in urgent need of artistic visionary voices and I don’t think there is decision makers,” suggests Maren Kroy- pose) from the 2017 Angie Thomas Bullets Fly and Gone With The Bullets. disenfranchised queer man JT LeRoy, and project and will distribute worldwide. nents starring Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Netflix on November 9. of writing, but clearly Black Panther is the Talk, another Toronto world premiere Favourite from playing on Disney’s to say and there’s a rooting factor for it”. participating — watching movies and comer Thomasin McKenzie, Rachel Weisz ent films simply may not be noticed by Ritter. “The romantic side of me agrees, renewal. “Festivals must adapt, even reset anything else like it. Everything else is mann, managing director of Berlin- novel, The Hate U Give follows a young Hidden Man was backed by Hehe Pic- persuaded her boyfriend’s androgynous Contact Netflix info@netflix.com Annette Bening, Mandy Patinkin and Contact Netflix info@netflix.com film that looks likely to be most affected. that marks Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to upcoming streaming service. Further films that could benefit from voting? It takes a while for all this stuff to in Disobedience, and ensemble drama buyers without a festival platform. yes, this could have had an individual themselves,” says Anaïs Emery, artistic just more populist in its emphasis.” based M-Appeal. woman who witnesses the fatal shooting tures, Gravity Pictures, Flagship Enter- sister, Savannah Knoop (Kristen Stewart), Antonio Banderas. Fogelman’s script Marvel Studios/Disney executives are 2017 best picture Oscar winner Moon- Early — unreliable — word from those an enhanced awareness of inclusion are: percolate.” If Beale Street Could Talk What They Had starring Blythe Danner, “The big festivals are becoming more campaign in every country. But with director of Neuchatel International Fan- However, those choices, particularly in “We should have female representa- of her best friend at the hands of a police tainment and Emperor Motion Pictures. to pretend to be the author when the book The Lie (Can) first appeared on the Black List of Hol- Widows (UK-US) proud of their $1.3bn global smash, and it light. Yorgos Lanthimos’s Venice world working on Warner Bros’ A Star Is Born Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk, based Hilary Swank and Michael Shannon. and more the make-or-break element As the dust settles on Cannes’ fallout with Netflix, the Berlinale appoints Netflix, it was the perfect combination, tastic Film Festival (NIFFF) in Switzer- the headline sections, are always open to tion in every level of society and in festi- officer. Helmed by producer/director Contact Gravity Pictures becomes a bestseller. Adapted from Dir Veena Sud lywood’s best unproduced screenplays Dir Steve McQueen is understood they have been planning premiere and New York Film Festival is positive about Bradley on James Baldwin’s wrenching novel Open to fresh voices whose films launched on the Lido the roster includes the Coen brothers’ Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns could in the career of arthouse films,” says it is now available in so many language land. “We should rethink what is an criticism. Last year, a declaration signed vals as well,” agrees Emery. Tillman Jr, who most recently executive- info@gravitypictures.com.cn Knoop’s memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I and was acquired by FilmNation, before an awards push that encompasses not Favourite starring Olivia Col- opener The Favourite, Cooper’s directorial about a pregnant Harlem woman’s The same person points out recent Acad- include Chazelle (La La Land) and western anthology The Ballad Of Buster catch a wave and stars Emily Blunt in the Thorsten Ritter, executive vice-president well-known cineaste Carlo Chatrian, and sales agents despair over versions simultaneously around the independent production, what is an by 79 German film directors called for The campaign for gender parity grows produced Dee Rees’s Mudbound, the Became JT LeRoy, the film hails from Ele- The second feature from Toronto-born Amazon secured distribution rights in a McQueen follows up his triple Oscar just crafts and major categories, but best man, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, is debut and Ven- odyssey to exonerate her incarcerated emy screenings of Boots Riley’s satire Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity). The latter Scruggs, Paul Greengrass’s 22 July, which iconic role. The UK actress also of acquisitions, sales and marketing at selection decisions, Geoffrey Macnab asks whether the big festivals world. The effect on the career of the auteur, what are the new processes of cre- “renewal” of the Berlinale and for the louder, the Berlinale under Chatrian film stars Amandla Stenberg, who also High Life (Ger-Fr-Pol-UK-US) vated Films, The Fyzz Facility, Ingenious writer/director Sud following 2016’s The $10m deal after winning a three-way winner 12 Years A Slave (2013) with this picture and director for Ryan Coogler. with Fox Searchlight. Searchlight is the ice world pre- fiancé; Focus Features’ BlacKkKlans- Sorry To Bother You starring Lakeith Stan- returns to Italy for the world premiere of charts the aftermath of the 2011 Norway impressed in Paramount’s A Quiet Place, Berlin-based sales agent Beta Cinema. filmmaker is maximised and the doors ation. Our responsibility is to be more appointment of a new remains an unknown quantity and no takes the lead in Amma Asante’s fellow Beautiful Boy Media, Aquarius Content, Sobini Films, Salton Sea, The Lie (previously known as auction with Universal and Paramount. adaptation of the 1983 UK mini-series The industry consensus so far is that reigning awards season champions, miere. Cooper man from Spike Lee, whose critically field and Tessa Thompson, and Bo Burn- ROMA, his first Mexico-set film since his terrorist attack, and possibly Noah one of several horror films causing a stir, Sales agents point out that being in are becoming elitist and what that means for the indie film industry for the producers are open.” open-minded. Festivals have artistic director who one would bet against Cannes in its Net- Toronto title Where Hands Touch. 20th Dir Claire Denis Thirty Three Productions, LBI Entertain- Between Earth And Sky) follows two par- Contact Amazon Studios by Lynda La Plante. With the action the Academy is being fuzzy-headed in its whose best picture and directing Oscars admired Cannes title recounts how ham’s rites-of-passage drama Eighth 2001 breakout Y Tu Mama Tambien. Baumbach’s untitled divorce comedy alongside A24’s Sundance sensation official selection at Cannes, in particular, It is not hard to find those who believe always had a business model would streamline its flix showdown. But what does seems Century Fox will release across multiple High Life may be set in space, but with Pandora Filmproduktion and the UK’s finds herself in a complicated love trian- ment and Buffalo Gal Pictures. ents as they attempt to help their daugh- contact-us@amazonstudios.com moved to Chicago, Gone Girl author Gil- good intentions. It took notice when the for Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape Of an African-American cop Grade show how existing Academy mem- Netflix is handling the black-and-white with Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver Hereditary with Toni Collette and Luca will multiply the market potential of the Cannes’ attempts to prohibit films without in which we show films programme and certain is the power of film festivals to territories from October 2018. mercurial French creator Denis at the The Apocalypse Films. gle. Released in India in September by Contact Nadine de Barros, Fortitude ter after she has made a lethal mistake. lian Flynn has penned the screenplay #Oscarsowhite furore blew up a couple of Water could not have come at a better infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan bers are open to fresh voices. Recent best family saga from Participant Media and and Susanne Bier’s sci-fi Bird Box with Guadagnino’s Venice world premiere film. International distributors go there Some sales agents express frustration A strong counter-argument can be had a huge impact on the film’s life,” says theatrical distribution in France cannot be before the exhibitors. We strengthen its com- give an invaluable global platform to art- Contact 20th Century Fox helm, it will not be science fiction as we Contact Wild Bunch sales@wildbunch.eu Eros International, Husband Material is International nadine@fortitudeint.com As an Emmy-winning television pro- OPENING FILM about a group of recently bereaved years ago, and in the past 18 months has time. If the title of Lanthimos’s report- in the late 1970s; and Steve picture winners Moonlight and 12 Years A held back its films from Cannes after it Sandra Bullock. It is understood Netflix Suspiria for Amazon Studios, inspired by determined to secure the best new titles when small, fragile, defiantly uncom- made that when films such as Apichat- Pintilie, the film’s Romanian writer/direc- sustained. After all, as Efe Cakarel — have the first window of petition. The state- house and independent films is reso- foxmovies@fox.com know it. Robert Pattinson plays a man produced by India’s Phantom Films and ducer, Sud also created the US version of women who team up to attempt the art made overtures to the world outside, edly Kubrickian period drama proves McQueen’s Toronto- Slave are cases in point. “People respond refused to bow to French distribution had not finalised theatrical plans for its Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo classic. and the world’s press is on the ground to mercial, experimental films are chosen pong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee tor. Touch Me Not took seven years to founder and CEO of UK-based arthouse exhibition but to protect ment called the latter lutely undiminished. living in isolation in space with his Husband Material (India) Colour Yellow Productions. The latter is The Land Of Steady The Killing and Seven Seconds; here The Outlaw King (US-UK) heist that killed their husbands. The inviting a new intake of younger, more prescient, Disney chairman and CEO bound heist thriller to storytelling no matter their age or eth- window rules. Netflix covets a best pic- contenders as of mid-August. Finally, Stan & Ollie will close the BFI write about them. in the main competitions. If those titles Who Can Recall His Past Lives or Pintilie’s develop and make, and has gone on to streaming platform MUBI, which bought this hierarchy is a bit old- “by far the weakest Whether these films will eventually be Hidden Man (China) daughter (Mia Goth). The cast includes Dir Anurag Kashyap also behind Rahi Anil Barve and Anand Habits (US) Killing’s star Mireille Enos leads a cast Dir David Mackenzie cast includes Viola Davis, Colin Farrell, diverse, international entertainment pro- Bob Iger could be purring content- Widows from See-Saw nic demographic,” they say. ture win and recently signalled its intent While the company has prospered in London Film Festival and stars Steve “You can only create that kind of buzz win the main prizes and are then ignored Touch Me Not win the Palme d’Or, the screen at festivals around the world and Touch Me Not for the UK — suggests, fashioned. We have to look of all the major film watched in cinemas or on TVs and Dir Jiang Wen Juliette Binoche, Lars Eidinger and Gandhi’s forthcoming fantasy drama Dir Nicole Holofcener that includes Peter Sarsgaard and Joey Jacki Weaver and Elizabeth Debicki, fessionals that would account for roughly edly about the acquisition of the Films, Film 4 and New As The Shape Of Water and Birdman by bringing awards guru Lisa Taback in- the documentary category, Amazon Stu- Coogan and John C Reilly as the famous if you have everyone from the industry in by audiences when released worldwide, Golden Bear or the Golden Lion, their secure distribution deals in 30 countries. doing so is going against the spirit of a fes- for a new business model.” festivals”. mobile devices, the distributors will still André Benjamin (aka OutKast’s Andre The latest from prolific Indian actor/ Tumbbad, which opens this year’s Ven- King. Blumhouse Productions produces Chris Pine stars as Robert The Bruce in and 20th Century Fox will release in one-fifth of global membership. 21st Century Fox entertainment Regency, which will have shown in recent years, Venice can house. Taback and her team will need to dios has had the better of it in the other comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. one place,” says Moritz Hemminger, the net effect can be to devalue the eco- success gives a major boost to arthouse By contrast, certain genre titles shut tival dedicated to artistic excellence. be coming to Cannes, Toronto, Berlin, Following a summer release in China 3000), with visual input from feted producer/writer/director Kashyap ice Critics’ Week. Five years after Enough Said, which also alongside Mad Dog Films. Mackenzie’s gritty account of the rise of multiple territories. “It effects Black Panther the most in my open the BFI London kick-start a successful best picture Oscar pick a horse and the early indications are senior sections, earning best actor and One source said Coogan is outstanding deputy head of sales and acquisitions at nomic standing of the entire event that distribution in general. “The recognition out of the A-list festivals have subse- “It is very backwards thinking, not nec- (Right) Carlo Chatrian moves Sundance and Venice in their hordes to with a gross of $86m, renowned Chinese Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. Produc- (Udaan, Gangs Of Wasseypur) is the Contact Phantom Films premiered in Toronto and went on to Contact Blumhouse Scotland’s 14th-century hero who Contact 20th Century Fox opinion,” says one veteran awards strate- (Right) BlacKkKlansman Film Festival and fea- campaign, while best director winners Cuaron’s film will be the one, although best original screenplay awards in 2017 and could go all the way. ns Germany’s ARRI Media. programmed it. Touch Me Not received at the Berlinale quently flourished. For example, Beta’s essarily aligned with the ethos that a festi- from Locarno to the Berlinale find them. ■ s actor/director Jiang’s latest film will tion companies include Alcatraz Films, story of a young Punjabi woman who website@phantoms.in win a raft of plaudits including a Golden sales@blumhouseinternational.com defied the medieval might of England’s foxmovies@fox.com » 8 Screen International August-September 2018 www.screendaily.com www.screendaily.com August-September 2018 Screen International 9 14 Screen International August-September 2018 www.screendaily.com www.screendaily.com August-September 2018 Screen International 15 50 Screen International August-September 2018 www.screendaily.com www.screendaily.com August-September 2018 Screen International 51
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Dominic West and Lily Collins — and vistas remain perennia partly in the city. Eastwood drew heavily of the which shot in the city. Nick Goundry reports on the logistical expertise film commission , headed Money is available for documentar at ies, screen.bruss els to be lower though investments tend through to your annual had to be super by Pierrette Baillot. “We mark. confidential, nobody could know,” Baillot around the $22,800 (¤20,000) visit. Rupert els backing, a remembers of Eastwood’s To unlock screen.bruss of its financ- Everett (“very, very friendly”) also came project needs to have 40% to Brussels to shoot part of his Oscar BRUSSELS ing already in place. For web series, the that have 80% of marketing material in Wilde biopic, The Happy Prince. fund supports projects The film commission advises on every ers are discovering the budget already secured. locations, International filmmak Projects that receive screen.bruss els aspect of filming: permits, city can be catering, accommoda tion, equipment just how versatile the support are also likely to benefit from Some will Sony’s Peter Rabbit recreated rental, even obtaining police permission Belgian tax shelter financing. the UK’s Lake District region Screen Flan- also secure backing from a cost-effective method. in Sydney’s Centennial Park before blocking off streets. Rupert Everett’s with countless The Happy Prince ders and Wallimage. “At the heart of Europe, Brussels does Magis acknowledges facility but not yet offer a big studio fund as an AUSTRALIA ‘Brussels space is available at nearby AED Studios Vinterberg’s ing a new $99m (A$140m) in Flanders where Thomas A ustralia ’s combinatio n of produc- square feet. Fox Studios Australia in offers which was added incentive for international among submarine drama Kursk, world-class studio facilities, sup- ers that will be allocated over the next four THE LOWDOWN Sydney also has nine stages Docklands spectacular backed by the fund, was shot. The facil- generous filming incentive location offset will its production resources. only half- locations is pool years from 2019-20. The Financial incentives Australia’s five stages in ity, which has water tanks, port and experienced crew but the new fund Studios Melbourne offers city and very officially remain at 16.5% main federal filming incentive for an-hour’s drive from the has helped turn the country into one of the will effectively bring the offset closer to the is the location Victoria. Australian crews are world- from historic soon further studio space and a water s main production international producers renowned and experienced at working southern hemisphere’ by the industry. local porary to in Vilvoorde, a in Australia 30% figure sought offset worth 16.5% of qualifying productions. to contem tank will be available hubs. International production popular on big-budget Hollywood Brussels. There New Zealand is a similarly expenditure. The programme 15-minute drive from is centred on Gold Coast, Queensland and southern hemisphere hub. The mountain- utterly surreal’ are also various alternative spaces in coast in Sydney, is geared towards big-budget is a big country further down the east South Island are Size matters Australia sels warehouses ous vistas of the central movies and high-end TV Pierrette Baillot, screen.brus Brussels itself, including but an integrated air transport SECR are the places chief international can be easily New South Wales, as these ET UK and former factories, that LOCATIO among the country’s series, with producers capitals facilities. Gold network serves all the state NS that offer the major studio appeals, bolstered by a competitive national required to spend at least it’s no wonder customised for large-scale filmmaking. Studios has and many of the regional areas. cultures enriching the city, look- Coast’s Village Roadshow filming incentive. Paramount $10.6m (A$15m) in Australia and varied screen.brussels is not primarily Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok Central Australia is dominated by Brussels offers spectacular of all the ex-pats we have here,” productions . As recently hosted Pictures filmed an elaborate to access the support. A new region. The to contemporary like the little language ing to attract big US Fox Studios the Outback wilderness locations from historic bours. “We were a bit all kinds of for tax shel- and Warner Bros’ Aquaman. helicopter chase in the $99m (A$140m) fund launched Baillot, to explain regions, Flan- Magis explains. “We support Magis explains, to be eligible Pacific Rim has ample accommodat ion to utterly surreal,” says brother of our two other the language of films need Australia in Sydney counts Central Otago region earlier this year effectively brings country are being Wallonia in the content, no matter what ter and regional funding, among its big- options for international productions why such different projects ders in the north and ” or be made Uprising and Alien: Covenant of South Island for the offset closer to 30%. Australia tal and the film or the TV series. to qualify as European including the InterContinen lured to Brussels. south,” Magis says. budget feature credits. Mission: Impossible — and years since Underlining its cosmopoli- as co-productions with countries often shoot sup- also offers the post, digital while private In the two-and-a-half Four Seasons in Sydney, fund Library The major productions which and pro- tan approach, the treaties with Belgium nearby but Fallout and Ava visual effects offset (PDV), often the opening its doors, financing that have porting footage on location harbour mansions are The funding family ns in Chile, D u Ve r n a y s h o t is worth 30% of local expenditure els has revi- accepts applicatio (this list includes Canada, of Birm Hollywood duction agency screen.bruss was formed, stage work tends to be the primary focus. at preferred choices of the a local and When screen.brus sels French, Dutch and English. Israel and China but not the US). included Sony’s scenes in the same for productions spending The Olsen or talised the city as both the main fund elite. Melbourne offers it brought together the it is clear ingham Recent exceptions have area for her Disney least $353,000 (A$500,000) Crown Casino, l filmmaking hub. screen.brus- In its two-year lifespan, Even without that influx, Peter Rabbit, which built a set of the UK’s Como in South Yarra or internationa with three other agencies: fund has worked with part- — and fantasy A Wrinkle In locally. Productions do not need Broadbeach The fund, launched in May 2016, has , screen.brussels the new agency is flourishing Sydney’s Centennial Southbank. Queensland’s sels film commission ners from France, Denmark, part Lake District region in Time (see case study, to have filmed in Australia to a year into fea- production, is now regarded as a vital Birming pumped $3.5m (¤3.4m) ham , BRITISH Park to keep the shoot close to Animal but it and Main Beach have become cluster (which supports the UK, the Netherland s, of the film financing and Englan FILM COMMISS page 69). qualify for the PDV offset, and documenta- VR companies d production popular accommodation options ture films, TV dramas ction and Can- ION UK Logic, the movie’s visual-effects International produc- is an either/or arrangement with t and attract post-produ become more Switzerland, Spain, production landscape IN FOCU S 2018 for productions shooting at Village ries to boost employmen looking to grow and company based in the city. ers do sometimes film on the location offset. Full details now investment. For screen.bru ssels ada and Israel, and with in Belgium. considerable inward Tollym incentive for Roadshow. European productions internation al) and Australia’s main filming location in New Zealand’s ausfilm.com.au/incentives $10.30 (¤9) loans or makes a host of other coun- is its location offset benefit from the recently launched every euro the fund invests, business (which offers ore international producers major cities. Paramount’s London and says Noël Magis, For further information, FOCUS 2018 local spend- non-stop flight between are spent in the region, equity investments). (Right) Grace Of Monaco, UK IN that is worth 16.5% of eligible Forest ISSION Ghost In The Shell shot els. please visit Infrastructure and crew managing director of screen.bruss of co-pro- COMM source of persistent con- Perth in Western Australia. “We call ourselves the kings starring Nicole Kidman, BRITISH FILM ing. The figure is a in has grown to www.screen.brussels/en Park extensively in Wellington, Village Roadshow Studios The profile of the area French, Dutch filmed at the Parliament troversy, with many in the production of the city tank ital Region is duction because we speak in Brussels Newcas turning parts Queensland offers water Kate Marks, that Brussels-Cap is the common tle, industry calling for the offset to be raised First person to email the point of its neigh- and also English, as that County into a far-eastern » facilities and nine sound stages, kate.marks@ausfilm.com.au no longer in the shadow Down, Northe Australia compete Ausfilm RTISE closer to 30% to help the largest of which spans 40,000 www.worldoflocations.com VFX EXPE rn Irel al Studios global market. 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