Berlin film festival opens today. European film production is booming…? ‘…film productions on the continent have increased by more than 50% over the past decade’ [1].
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Love French films – always been jealous of the French film industry. My understanding (as an uninformed outsider far away in Melbourne, Australia) is that a significant portion of tickets purchased at the box office are re-invested back into production of French films.
Essentially, French audiences are funding new French films?
Smart. Wish Australian film industry could pivot towards this direction to replace the constant griping about Australian government failing to fund the film industry.
Happy to stand corrected on French film funding…but that’s way off topic.
NOTE: to be fair Liam Neeson loves it here, currently filming 3rd feature in Melbourne. Foreign producers, including Neeson’s latest movie ‘The Mongoose’ (plus the upcoming Peter Farrelly movie with Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser) love, love, love the Aussie crews and love even more the Aussie tax offset.
News | Creative Victoria, 13 February 2025
Liam Neeson hits the road for latest film The Mongoose
International superstar Liam Neeson has hit the road in Victoria as production starts on The Mongoose, Neeson’s third film in the state in four years.
From its production base at the Melbourne Screen Hub in Footscray and across its on-location shoots, the production will also create more than 450 jobs for Victorian screen workers and engage 150 local businesses –including aerial cinematography by globally renowned Melbourne drone specialists XM2.
The production will inject more than $19 million into the Victorian economy, with an estimated $2 million being spent in regional Victorian communities.
The project reunites Neeson with Code Entertainment, producers of both Ice Road and Ice Road 2: Road to the Sky and was written by Thompson Evans (Reckoning).
[1] European film is booming. Really.
In spite of the disruption caused by the pandemic to production and release schedules, film productions on the continent have increased by more than 50% over the past decade.
Some of these new films will premiere at the Berlin film festival, which opens today, or Cannes and Venice later in the year. Those who don’t manage to get a slot at the “big three” can still hope for red-carpet treatment: the submission platform FilmFreeway records more than 600 new European film festivals for this year alone.
Film in Europe is booming, but the gongs and glamour only tell one side of the story
By Moritz Pfeifer The Guardian Thu 13 Feb 2025 22.00 AEDT