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New Screen Productions Will Generate $219 million In NSW
2015-04-07
Via Screen NSW eNews:
"The NSW Deputy Premier Troy Grant has announced three major Hollywood animated feature films will be produced in the state.
Mr. Grant also announced funding in 10 new local film and television productions with the combined expenditure in NSW for the three major films and the 10 local productions expected to be more than $219 million.
The award-winning Sydney animation studio Animal Logic will work with Hollywood studio giant Warner Bros to make The LEGO Batman Movie, along with the LEGO spinoff, Ninjago. A third Warner Bros animated feature will be announced at a later date.
Production has begun on Ninjago, with The LEGO Batman Movie scheduled to begin production later this year, and the third animation project to follow after. The NSW Government helped secure the productions through NSW Trade & Investment\'s State Investment Attraction Scheme.
The 10 new film and television projects will cover topics from the national Indigenous Australians referendum, to the life of NSW-born entertainer Peter Allen, and will receive more than $900,000 in NSW Government production funding."