The law came into effect this week, designed to make Russia a filmmaking hub.
Amid signs of a new, Glasnost-like desire to engage with the international industry, Russia has launched a 40% cash rebate for foreign film productions.
The rebate, signed into law earlier this week by prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, will be available immediately with around $1m allocated for the incentive this year, $11.7m for 2020 and $23.5m for 2021.
Russian producers have already received requests from foreign partners to provide production services and come aboard international projects as co-production partners.
“The launch of the rebates will allow the Russian film industry...
Amid signs of a new, Glasnost-like desire to engage with the international industry, Russia has launched a 40% cash rebate for foreign film productions.
The rebate, signed into law earlier this week by prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, will be available immediately with around $1m allocated for the incentive this year, $11.7m for 2020 and $23.5m for 2021.
Russian producers have already received requests from foreign partners to provide production services and come aboard international projects as co-production partners.
“The launch of the rebates will allow the Russian film industry...
- 11/9/2019
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Russia’s Wizart has sold rights for German-speaking Europe for its 3D animated feature “The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands” to Peppermint Enterprises.
Peppermint managing director, Patrick Keller, said the company is planning a late January/early February theatrical release, the first time that a film from the franchise has been given a theatrical release in the territory, where past instalments were released only on DVD and VOD.
“Mirrorlands” is directed by Aleksei Tsitsilin and Robert Lence, which is his feature helming debut, although his credits include Hollywood movies like “The Lion King,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Toy Story” and “Shrek.” The producers are Yuri Moskvin, Vladimir Nikolaev, Boris Mashkovtsev, Pavel Stepanov and Vadim Vereschagin. Central Partnership and Soyuzmultfilm co-produced.
The film will open first on Dec. 21 in Poland and the Baltic countries, followed by the Czech Republic and Slovakia later that month, in Russia on Jan. 1, and in Romania and Bulgaria on Jan.
Peppermint managing director, Patrick Keller, said the company is planning a late January/early February theatrical release, the first time that a film from the franchise has been given a theatrical release in the territory, where past instalments were released only on DVD and VOD.
“Mirrorlands” is directed by Aleksei Tsitsilin and Robert Lence, which is his feature helming debut, although his credits include Hollywood movies like “The Lion King,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Toy Story” and “Shrek.” The producers are Yuri Moskvin, Vladimir Nikolaev, Boris Mashkovtsev, Pavel Stepanov and Vadim Vereschagin. Central Partnership and Soyuzmultfilm co-produced.
The film will open first on Dec. 21 in Poland and the Baltic countries, followed by the Czech Republic and Slovakia later that month, in Russia on Jan. 1, and in Romania and Bulgaria on Jan.
- 11/2/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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