Here are some interesting bits taken from The Funds Book from the Cannes Film Market. It outlines all the major government-provided film funds, budgets, and basic criteria. I compared Hong Kong and South Korea, not based on market share (since that would be an unfair comparison), but based on their criteria. Check out Hong Kong [...]
Financing
Red Dwarf Feature Shot Down for Being “Too Marketable”
onThis is old news, but the subject is relevant since we just returned from Cannes and got a wake-up call on how European film financing works. Turns out the Red Dwarf creators once got that same wake-up call: Series co-creator and the film's scriptwriter/producer Doug Naylor attempted to shed some light on his plight in [...]