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Building on the momentum of several years of incredible growth, Universal Orlando in Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles are introducing great new guest experiences in both parks [...]

To Snarf or not to Snarf was the unusual question facing exec producer Sam Register and the creative team at Warner Bros. Animation as they were developing an updated version [...]

It might seem like an awkward time to open a movie complex dedicated to art cinema, but that's just what two of North America's most distinguished film organizations have done [...]

Russian public film finance is undergoing major reforms as the country begins a slow process of adopting the soft-money-supported international coproduction model prevalent in Europe. The 2010 launch of the [...]

No one claims post-production is a sexy business, but it seems to have found its allure, at least as far as the studios are concerned. But now several of the [...]

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- A 305 million€ ($420.9 million) plan to convert a former tobacco plant in Milan into Italy's latest film studio was unveiled Wednesday, and the 893,000-square-foot facility could […]

It's been said that New Jersey has two great cities--New York and Philadelphia. Thanks to Garden State auteur Kevin Smith, it may soon have a third--Hollywood. The headquarters of Smith [...]

About an hour's drive from Beijing, inside a giant studio complex, you'll encounter armies of kung fu specialists being put through their paces by China's top helmers. Or you might [...]

Serbia approved cash rebates in March for international film and TV projects spending at least C2 million locally: 12% is available on labor, and 15% on costs of goods and [...]

The Danish government revised its support for the local biz last fall, increasing coin to $401 million for 2011-14, of which about half is for development and production. It freed [...]

Poland has one of the most successful production support programs in Central and Eastern Europe. The revolving production fund managed by the Polish Film Institute is worth an annual $34 [...]

The push by local filmmakers and producers for a tax incentive scheme has yet to yield results. A film law passed in 2010 that would have introduced reforms to the [...]

The Norwegian Film Institute handles development and production coin totaling $65 million a year. Since Norway joined the European Convention on Cinematographic Co-production in 2009, the NFI has worked hard [...]

In common with other Scandinavian countries, Finland does not offer any rebates, tax incentives or other sweeteners to attract or encourage production, but it does have an effective public subsidy [...]

Sweden has no tax incentives, although, as in other Nordic countries, tax breaks are on the film industry's wish list and lobbying is under way to persuade the government of [...]

Tax-driven film financing is finally growing in Spain. Starting in 2009, the Spanish film industry began offering an 18% tax break on production investment by private financial investors channeled through [...]

Hungary's sweeteners, which went online in 2003, are credited with driving millions in foreign production coin to the country and were studied by most of the small country's neighbors. Productions [...]

The Czech incentive system, finally introduced in 2010 after years of lobbying by the local entertainment industry, has been a decided hit, with some $10 million in rebates last year [...]

Despite the demise of the U.K. Film Council, the system of tax incentives and selective funding for film production in Blighty remains essentially unaltered. For films costing up to 20 [...]

Since 2009, France has boasted a tax rebate for international productions (acronymed as Trip) worth 20% of eligible expenditure. Capped at 4 million € ($5.7 million) per project, the rebate [...]

Austria launched a 20 million [euro] ($28 million) film fund last year known as Film Location Austria (FISA). The fund will operate through the end of 2012 and is currently [...]

With a vast federal and regional film subsidy system offering annual support of 217.5 million € ($314 million) for development and production of feature films, documentaries, TV movies and shorts, [...]

COMING OFF ITS most successful year in decades, Germany's No. 1 back lot--Studio Babelsberg--is Looking to invade the country's capital and convert Berlin's historic Tempelhof Airport into a soundstage. Babelsberg [...]

Paramount hopes to build huge office tower on its Hollywood lot Studio won't talk, but Woo aide says plan's afoot Paramount Pictures apparently plans to build the largest office project [...]

India/USA: Mumbai and Los Angeles-based animation and VFX studio Rhythm & Hues will set up its third production facility in HiTec City in Madhapur, Hyderabad, India, to be operational in [...]

LONDON Nu Image/Millennium is bolstering its production power in Bulgaria with plans for an expanded studio. Avi Lerner and Danny Dimbort's Hollywood-based production and sales outfit have been using the [...]

TORONTO -- City officials Pinewood Shepperton Studios remains committed to operating a proposed giant studio complex in Toronto (HR 4/25). Jeff Steiner, president and CEO of the Toronto Economic Development […]

JOHANNESBURG The planned Cape Town film megastudio will come another step closer to reality in mid-August when the Western Cape provincial government announces its preferred privatesector partner for the project. [...]

TORONTO -- A consortium that includes Britain's Pinewood Shepperton Studios has shelved plans to build a CAN$150 million ($101 million) studio complex here. 'Without the commercial tenancies which were anticipated […]

7 STUDIOS, RIVER VIEW P&G Soaps Head For East Harlem A major television production center is planned for the Upper East Side of Manhattan that will change the face of [...]

AMC Entertainment Inc., one of the world's largest exhibitors, announced that it will spend $70 million to convert almost half of the Montreal Forum into a 30-screen theatre. The 7,250-seat [...]

Officials at the California Film Commission expressed disappointment last week with Twentieth Century Fox's announcement it will build an animation film studio in Phoenix. They said they were not given [...]