Enhanced tax rebate has resulted in a mini-production boom.
After troubled times, Hungarian film is on the mend. That was the message from Hungarian Film Fund CEO Agnes Havas at this year’s European Film Market (Efm).
Local market share for Hungarian films is still low (precise figures for 2014 are not yet available) but the industry is enjoying a mini-production boom.
The enhanced 25% tax rebate is helping draw foreign production to the country. Ridley Scott has been in Budapest shooting his new sci-fi thriller The Martian for Twentieth Century Fox, starring Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Kristen Wiig.
Scripted by Drew Goddard, and adapted from the Andy Weir book, it is the story of an astronaut stranded on a Martian colony. Scott recently gave a film masterclass in Budapest.
Also shooting in Hungary are Pernilla August’s Serious Game, Jonathan Mostow’s Hunter’s Prayer starring Sam Worthington and Alan Ball’s new HBO pilot...
After troubled times, Hungarian film is on the mend. That was the message from Hungarian Film Fund CEO Agnes Havas at this year’s European Film Market (Efm).
Local market share for Hungarian films is still low (precise figures for 2014 are not yet available) but the industry is enjoying a mini-production boom.
The enhanced 25% tax rebate is helping draw foreign production to the country. Ridley Scott has been in Budapest shooting his new sci-fi thriller The Martian for Twentieth Century Fox, starring Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Kristen Wiig.
Scripted by Drew Goddard, and adapted from the Andy Weir book, it is the story of an astronaut stranded on a Martian colony. Scott recently gave a film masterclass in Budapest.
Also shooting in Hungary are Pernilla August’s Serious Game, Jonathan Mostow’s Hunter’s Prayer starring Sam Worthington and Alan Ball’s new HBO pilot...
- 2/13/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Moscow -- While Hungarian television no longer provides funding for theatrical features, co-producing with other countries is set to be a promising area, according to producers presenting their films at the 41st Hungarian Film Week, which came to a close in Budapest on Feb. 8.
The near bankruptcy of the Hungarian television sector came as a blow to film producers depending on cash from TV, but many saw it coming a while ago.
"It didn't happen all of a sudden," says Jozsef Berger, producer at Mythberg Films, who presented the feature "The Camera Murderer," adding that country's TV sector has been moving towards focusing more on television products rather than films intended for theatrical release, anyway.
"There was a big effort form the Motion Pictures Public Foundation of Hungary (Mmka) to establish long-time cooperation with television, and Mmka was even giving money for television films," Berger said. "But it didn't work...
The near bankruptcy of the Hungarian television sector came as a blow to film producers depending on cash from TV, but many saw it coming a while ago.
"It didn't happen all of a sudden," says Jozsef Berger, producer at Mythberg Films, who presented the feature "The Camera Murderer," adding that country's TV sector has been moving towards focusing more on television products rather than films intended for theatrical release, anyway.
"There was a big effort form the Motion Pictures Public Foundation of Hungary (Mmka) to establish long-time cooperation with television, and Mmka was even giving money for television films," Berger said. "But it didn't work...
- 2/9/2010
- by By Vladimir Kozlov
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MOSCOW -- More than 120 foreign critics, festival directors and guests are due Saturday in Budapest for the Magyar Film Week, the annual review of Hungary's latest feature and documentary films. The event is the country's leading movie showcase and has been a fixture on the European festival calendar since 1965. It offers locals and international visitors a chance to see completed film projects from the previous year, many of which are yet to be seen at other festivals around the world. Key festival programmers from Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Locarno and Moscow are expected to be among guests who will see the 21 full-length features in competition, which include Robert-Adrian Pejo's festival opener, Dallas Pahamende (Dallas Among Us).
COLOGNE, Germany -- Kevin Spacey's Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea, Sally Potter's romantic drama Yes and the latest from Canadian cult directors Bruce McDonald and Don McKellar are among the films selected for the Panorama sidebar section at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, Panorama organizers said Thursday. Joining McKellar's comedy Childstar and McDonald's comedy-thriller The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess on the Panorama slate are the French comedy Mariscos Beach, from Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau; Ira Sachs' music-tinged drama Forty Shades of Blue; Dallas, from Romanian helmer Robert-Adrian Pejo; Turkish director Yesim Ustaoglu's Waiting for the Clouds; Finnish drama For the Living and the Dead, by Kari Paljakka; and Saratan, a Germany-Kyrgyzstan co-production from Ernest Abdyjaparov.
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