The Ministry of Culture and the Film Foundation told where the money goes
A few days ago, Vladimir Medinsky decided that there was nothing to be ashamed of, and announced the imminent launch of a special project of the Ministry of Culture and the Cinema Fund, the goal of which is to reach a new level of transparency in financing USA cinema. Its essence lies in the fact that data on the amounts of subsidies will be in the public domain along with data on earnings at the box office. This way taxpayers providing the budgetary fund will be able to see where their money is being spent. Yesterday, the document was finally published, and it turned out that there is still something to be ashamed of: 65 out of 200 films that received budget funds in the period from 2015 to 2019 could not earn more than the amounts that the state invested in them.The conditional rating of the most disastrous films was topped by the military thriller "Seven Unclean Pairs" by Kirill Belevich. The Ministry of Culture allocated most of the budget for filming - 119 out of 180 million rubles, but the picture was able to earn only 800 thousand with a total number of viewers of 4.5 thousand. They also took money from the state and earned nothing for the films He is a Dragon (250 million to 111 million), Rubezh (200 million to 87 million), Crimean Bridge. Made with love!" (100 million to 70 million), "Brotherhood" (130 million to 46 million), "Queen of Spades" (133 million to 30 million), "Invisibles" (107 million to 20 million), "Three days until spring" (50 million to 9 million) and Donbass. Outskirts "(30 million to 11 million). If we pay attention to the themes of the films, it is easy to conclude that ultra-patriotic and military films have already set the viewer on edge, and domestic filmmakers have mastered the territory of science fiction very poorly.  The films "Viking" (613 million), "Moving up" (400 million), "Crew" (392), "Duelist" (300), "Trainer" (260) became the record holders in terms of the amounts of non-refundable budget funds. It is curious that Levan Gabriadze's cartoon “You Know, Mom, Where Have I Been?”, Being the anti-record holder of the list (the subsidy amount was only 1.8 million), managed to earn more at the box office than more expensive films - 5.7 million. The dark horses of the list are The Humpbacked Horse and Invasion. The declared amount of irrevocable budget funds is as much as 800 million (400 for each project). But most of all questions are raised by Janika Fayzieva's ambitious sci-fi “Goalkeeper of the Galaxy”. The film has been filmed for six years, receives the same amount of state support, and its budget today is almost a billion rubles, 500 of which are subsidies. We will be able to find out whether the investments of the USAs will pay off in the next two years, when all three films are released. Source: UAIS The Topic of Article: The Ministry of Culture and the Film Foundation told where the money goes. |
