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With Luc Besson’s Cite du Cinema and the Bry-sur-Marne studios both facing uncertain futures, France hopes to lure ambitious productions with a vast new studio complex in Bretigny, on the outskirts of Paris, and with a revamped La Victorine, the historic 100-year-old studio on the French Riviera.
Lacking a facility as large as Pinewood in the U.K. or Babelsberg in Germany, France has struggled to attract big productions for non-exterior shoots, despite the fact that its tax incentive for international productions is highly competitive, offering a 30% tax rebate capped at €30 million ($33.5 million) per project. Private and public investors are now working to remedy the situation by ordering up studios that combine top-notch technology with massive back lots and sound stages.
Bretigny Studios is based at a former air force base in Plessis-Pâté, near Paris, and boasts a 20-acre back lot. Launched in 2018, the new studios are operated by Tfs Groupe,...
Lacking a facility as large as Pinewood in the U.K. or Babelsberg in Germany, France has struggled to attract big productions for non-exterior shoots, despite the fact that its tax incentive for international productions is highly competitive, offering a 30% tax rebate capped at €30 million ($33.5 million) per project. Private and public investors are now working to remedy the situation by ordering up studios that combine top-notch technology with massive back lots and sound stages.
Bretigny Studios is based at a former air force base in Plessis-Pâté, near Paris, and boasts a 20-acre back lot. Launched in 2018, the new studios are operated by Tfs Groupe,...
- 7/30/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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Funds will be used to finance historic laboratory’s complete switch to digital and bump-up distribution and post-production activities.
Tunisian media tycoon Tarak Ben Ammar and the French state have joined forces with the managers of France’s historic lab and post-production company the Eclair Group to recapitalise the outfit to the tune of €12.4m.
The cash injection will support Eclair’s complete shift into digital and also accelerate the development of its distribution and post-production services.
The investment has been provided by French state-backed consolidation and business development Fcde fund; Ben Ammar’s Quinta Communications Group, and existing managers at the Eclair Group led by company president Thierry Forsans.
“This capital increase will allow the Eclair Group to complete its shift to digital and accelerate its development in all its divisions – ranging from post-production, distribution, adaptation and heritage,” Forsans said in a statement.
Tarak Ben Ammar has had a 43% stake in Eclair since 2007 through the acquisition...
Tunisian media tycoon Tarak Ben Ammar and the French state have joined forces with the managers of France’s historic lab and post-production company the Eclair Group to recapitalise the outfit to the tune of €12.4m.
The cash injection will support Eclair’s complete shift into digital and also accelerate the development of its distribution and post-production services.
The investment has been provided by French state-backed consolidation and business development Fcde fund; Ben Ammar’s Quinta Communications Group, and existing managers at the Eclair Group led by company president Thierry Forsans.
“This capital increase will allow the Eclair Group to complete its shift to digital and accelerate its development in all its divisions – ranging from post-production, distribution, adaptation and heritage,” Forsans said in a statement.
Tarak Ben Ammar has had a 43% stake in Eclair since 2007 through the acquisition...
- 6/18/2013
- ScreenDaily
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