Confidence towards Hungary is starting to return, as more and more foreign filmmakers show interest in producing films in Hungarian studios, Peter Hidvegi, head of the Stern Film Studio and Media Center told the business daily Napi Gazdasag on Wednesday.
After last year’s big shortfall, 2009 augurs good, he said.
A six-part Canadian-British coproduction series and, in October the shooting of a British feature film are expected in the studio, and Stern expects some 65 percent utilisation of their capacities, Hidvegi was quoted by the paper as saying.
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Stern is a midget studio, so for them to fill two tiny sound stages situated right next to some railroad tracks in a former factory does not take all that much effort.
Meanwhile, the six or seven sound stages of the ultramodern USD 140 million Korda Studio is standing mostly empty for almost two years now. It is supposed to be the largest one in the world — it’s just they only shot one foreign movie there and a half of a Hungarian one.
But hey, the Hungrians were always ones not to let reality come between themselves and the stark facts…