The Hollywood film funding arm of Village Roadshow is negotiating a co-funding deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment.
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Documentaries on the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, mining uranium and road train drivers traversing the outback have received funding from Screen Australia
Mario Andreacchio's AMPCO Studios has clinched financing and production deals with Chinese entities for two films and created a China co-production film fund with an initial capital of $15 million.
See-Saw Films' A Long Way Home and Goalpost Pictures' Holding the Man were the only features that received production investment from Screen Australia at the March 26 board meeting.
Launched less than a year ago, Jake Film Finance has put money into two Australian features and has signed letters of intent with a number of producers.
RatPac Entertainment, the Hollywood financing co-venture between Brett Ratner and James Packer, is investing in Mark Hartley's documentary on the once-prodigious filmmakers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
The New Zealand government's decision to raise the tax offset for international production to 25% and local TV production to 40% has prompted renewed calls from Australian screen producers and the actors and technicians' union to improve the Oz rebates
Screen Australia board's first meeting since Graeme Mason was hired as CEO was eventful as the agency approved $11 million investment in four feature films, four adult drama productions and one children's series.