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International Insider: Indie Movie “Game-Changer”; Trip To Poland; Earnings Unveiled
Indie Film Relief, ITV, Banijay & ProSiebenSat 1. earnings feature in this week's International Insider
As ever with these government sweeteners, the devil will be in the detail, and queries came flooding in from our sources over whether this will lead to an influx of foreign filmmakers shifting location to the UK (which could create its own set of problems) and whether movies that eschew a theatrical release can still benefit. Britain’s ITV and Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 posted within a couple of hours of each other and both revealed that profits had nosedived by more than $100M apiece in 2023, in what was undoubtedly a tricky 12 months that saw the bottom fall out of the TV ad market, paired with the U.S. labor strikes. Later in the interview, Tinny reveals how she feels the golden age of Italian cinema, when the likes of Rossellini, Fellini and Pasolini were at their peak, has led to certain tropes and images becoming associated with the country, which aren’t always helpful when trying to form new ideas.
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