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Film finance is a subset of project finance, meaning the film project's generated cash flows rather than external sources are used to repay investors. The main factors determining the commercial success of a film include public taste, artistic merit, competition from other films released at the same time, the quality of the script, the quality of the cast, the quality of the director and other ...
In the US film production system, producers are typically not allowed to exceed the initial budget. Exceptions have of course been made, one of the most notable examples being Titanic (1997). Director James Cameron ran over budget and offered his fee back to the studio. In other countries, producers who exceed their budget tend to eat the cost ...
Hollywood accounting (also known as Hollywood bookkeeping) is the opaque or "creative" set of accounting methods used by the film, video, television and music industry to budget and record profits for creative projects.
Tom Clancy passed away on October 1, 2013, leaving behind a phenomenal legacy in regard to entertainment. Jack Ryan, the protagonist in many Tom Clancy novels, has a lot to do with this. Paramount ...
In filmmaking, a completion guarantee (sometimes referred to as a completion bond) is a form of insurance offered by a completion guarantor company (in return for a percentage fee based on the budget) that is often used in independently financed films to guarantee that the producer will complete and deliver the film (based on an agreed script, cast and budget) to the distributor(s) thereby ...
The Eady Levy was a tax on box-office receipts in the United Kingdom, intended to support the British film industry. It was introduced in 1950 as a voluntary levy as part of the Eady plan, named after Sir Wilfred Eady, a Treasury official. The levy, paid into the British Film Production Fund, was made compulsory in 1957 and terminated in 1985.
Articles that predominantly focus on box-office grosses and admissions, sales, budgets and the general business side of the film industry will come within the scope of this task force. The task force will also endeavor to ensure that the financial information present in general film articles is correct and sourced.
Negative cost is the net expense to produce and shoot a film, excluding such expenditures as distribution and promotion. [1] Low-budget movies, for example The Blair Witch Project, can have promotional expenses that are much larger than the negative cost. [2] The term comes from the costs up to the production of the final negative.