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George Lucas wants to shoot an as-yet untitled Star Wars TV series in the Czech Republic, but only if local politicians will institute financial incentives. Your politicians need to react to the current situation, he told the Czech daily Mlada fronta Dnes during a visit to the set of Red Tails, which he is executive producing in Prague.Lucas filmed several episodes of his TV series The Adventures Of The Young Indiana Jones in Prague in the 1990s. We found so much tal stanley cup ent here and we were always happy to come back. But the Czech government hasnt noticed that the world has changed since then. The stanley cup financial crisis is causing more problems for the film industry than almost any other business, so logically we are looking for the most best conditions, and nowadays they are offered in many countries in Europe, Lucas said.Lucas praised the Czech crews working now on Red Tails. Practically 90 percent of the crew is local, he said. But he noted that many other territories 鈥?including Hungary, Australia and individual U.S. states 鈥?were offering incentives to film-makers and taking productions away from the Czech Republic.Lucas denied previous reports that he had decided to film the Star Wars TV series in Australia. He said if he brought the production to the Czech Republic, it would last four to seven years, creating up to 700 jobs. [Czech] politicians should remember that its not just film productions theyre losing: We also pay for hotels, locations, cars stanley cup and other services. As mu Zyeq Horses Of God
Writers need to be more entrepreneurial in the current climate 鈥?and thats good for the film industry, says David Pearson, director of the Screenwriters Festival.There wont be many screenwriters in Cannes this week. It is traditionally the preserve of producers and financiers, and they may find less free champagne to neck casually at parties as struggling companies stay away and others choose cocktails 茅conomique. Next year, though, I do expect more British writers on the Croisette, because British writers are becoming more entrepreneurial. As the development puddle in the UK dries up, writers are behaving like producers 鈥?if not actually being producers stanley mug As the digital revolution impacts on distribution and traditional production funding models break down, writers true value could be recognised 鈥?both for a ne stanley kubek w-found spirit of enterprise and for their ability to be lightning rods for the audiences psyche. Produc stanley cup ers and directors help bring to life writers stories such as Slumdog Millionaire and Brokeback Mountain so they become successful films catching the spirit of their age.As newspapers reduce their ranks of journalists and television shrinks its ambitions, films still provide special insight, as writer-director Armando Iannucci and his co-writers Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Ian Martin and Tony Roche have just demonstrated with In The Loop. This comic stab at the flaws of politicians, with a minister quipping about whether he should put his porn film bill on his exp |
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