Exclusive: The recently-launched Swiss Studios is readying a slate of streamer-friendly originals, including a drama series set in a German oil town and limited series about a Swiss samurai.
Launched last month as a collective of five European production companies, Swiss Studios is seeking to take advantage of Switzerland’s ‘Lex Netflix’ legislation, which instructs global streamers such as Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ to reinvest 4% of their local income in Swiss film and television productions, or pay a tax.
Swiss Studios CEO Malte Probst told Deadline that streamers have been willing to pay the 4% “as along as the content is of they quality they need.” He estimates the tax will bring in around 20M Swiss francs ($22.4M) directly, but with associated costs could add as much as 40M Swiss francs each year. “It’s a sizeable amount,” he added.
Deadline can reveal Swiss Studios — which comprises Elite Filmproduktion, Praesens-Film Production,...
Launched last month as a collective of five European production companies, Swiss Studios is seeking to take advantage of Switzerland’s ‘Lex Netflix’ legislation, which instructs global streamers such as Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ to reinvest 4% of their local income in Swiss film and television productions, or pay a tax.
Swiss Studios CEO Malte Probst told Deadline that streamers have been willing to pay the 4% “as along as the content is of they quality they need.” He estimates the tax will bring in around 20M Swiss francs ($22.4M) directly, but with associated costs could add as much as 40M Swiss francs each year. “It’s a sizeable amount,” he added.
Deadline can reveal Swiss Studios — which comprises Elite Filmproduktion, Praesens-Film Production,...
- 11/15/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
A group of prominent Swiss production companies has joined forces and founded a new outfit called Swiss Studios Ag in Zurich.
The groundbreaking move was prompted by the so-called “Lex Netflix,” the Swiss law that forces streamers such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video to re-invest 4% of their local revenues in Swiss film and TV productions.
Shareholders of Swiss Studios include Elite Filmproduktion, represented by Roger Kaufmann; Praesens-Film Production Ag, represented by Corinne Rossi; Contrast Series, represented by Ivan Madeo; Bavaria Fiction Switzerland, represented by Dominic Fistarol and Marcus Ammon; and Kinescope Film GmbH, represented by Matthias Greving.
“We are delighted to have taken a groundbreaking step for the Swiss and European creative industries with the founding of Swiss Studios,” Malte Probst, chairman of the board and CEO of Swiss Studios Ag, said in a statement.
“Now it is time to bring the new opportunities arising from the ‘Lex Netflix...
The groundbreaking move was prompted by the so-called “Lex Netflix,” the Swiss law that forces streamers such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video to re-invest 4% of their local revenues in Swiss film and TV productions.
Shareholders of Swiss Studios include Elite Filmproduktion, represented by Roger Kaufmann; Praesens-Film Production Ag, represented by Corinne Rossi; Contrast Series, represented by Ivan Madeo; Bavaria Fiction Switzerland, represented by Dominic Fistarol and Marcus Ammon; and Kinescope Film GmbH, represented by Matthias Greving.
“We are delighted to have taken a groundbreaking step for the Swiss and European creative industries with the founding of Swiss Studios,” Malte Probst, chairman of the board and CEO of Swiss Studios Ag, said in a statement.
“Now it is time to bring the new opportunities arising from the ‘Lex Netflix...
- 10/29/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Haugesund, Norway — Pitched at Haugesund’s New Nordic Films confab, Thomas Robsahm and Aslaug Holm’s doc “a-ha -The Movie” won’t hit screens before November 2020, but an array of new production and distribution partners have already boarded the project.
Clementina Hegewisch of Neue Impuls and Matthias Greving of Kinescope Film in Germany are now co-producing with lead Norwegian producer Yngve Sæther of Motlys and Tore Bucarp of Fenris Film. Public funders are the Norwegian Film Institute, Fond for lyd og bilde, Nordisk Film & TV Fond and Nordmedia.
Broadcasters that have secured rights include TV2 Norway, Svt, Yle, Arte, Vrt Belgium, Srf Switzerland, while theatrical distributor Euphoria Film has nabbed domestic rights and Salzgeber & Co Medien German distribution rights. First Hand Films, who came on board two years ago, is sales rep. The release in Norway is set for November 2020.
The music doc tells the whole story, how three young boys from Oslo -Magne Furuholmen,...
Clementina Hegewisch of Neue Impuls and Matthias Greving of Kinescope Film in Germany are now co-producing with lead Norwegian producer Yngve Sæther of Motlys and Tore Bucarp of Fenris Film. Public funders are the Norwegian Film Institute, Fond for lyd og bilde, Nordisk Film & TV Fond and Nordmedia.
Broadcasters that have secured rights include TV2 Norway, Svt, Yle, Arte, Vrt Belgium, Srf Switzerland, while theatrical distributor Euphoria Film has nabbed domestic rights and Salzgeber & Co Medien German distribution rights. First Hand Films, who came on board two years ago, is sales rep. The release in Norway is set for November 2020.
The music doc tells the whole story, how three young boys from Oslo -Magne Furuholmen,...
- 8/22/2019
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
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