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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets was introduced by Europacorp’s owner Luc Besson at Cannes in 2015 to kickstart pre-sales. Valerian would come with a $180 million price tag and the financing model would be no different than the usual Europacorp product — majority of the budget (around 80%) would come from international distributors. Besson had developed strong relationships with distributors over the years, usually delivering Europacorp movies on time and on budget and Besson himself just mounted the international hit Lucy. According to Besson, around $80 million of Valerian‘s markets were sold in one day… More »
Tulip Fever
Tulip Fever began its long road to the big screen in 2004, as a $48 million co-production of Miramax and DreamWorks. A major portion of the funding came from the UK tax shelter fund Ingenious Media. Ingenious Media also operated another fund called Inside Track. This tax scheme allowed wealthy investors to write off their investment as a loss on the first day of filming and if that sounds too good to be true, it was — and deemed illegal by the UK government in February 2004. Inside track had already invested £12m into pre-production on Tulip Fever… More »