Features drop but network series rep $943 million in local spending
Jennie Punter
TORONTO — Ontario's film and TV industry contributed C$1.28 billion ($1.25 billion) to the provincial economy last year, up slightly from $1.26 billion in 2011, the Ontario Media Development Corporation said Friday.
Despite a dip in both foreign and domestic feature film spending, growth in the TV sector more than made up the difference, with domestic and foreign series representing 76% ($943 million) of Ontario's 2012 total.
The most notable trend was the uptick in foreign, primarily U.S., series — an almost 80% increase from $146 million in 2011 to $263 million in 2012. NBCUniversal's "Hannibal," pictured above with star Mads Mikkelsen, and "Defiance" and Netflix' "Hemlock Grove" were among 18 foreign skeins shot in Ontario last year.
In Toronto, the province's production hub, local industryites have noted a higher level of client retention the past two years, reversing the previous trend of series shooting one season in town then moving to a different jurisdiction.
"These 2012 production levels are a testament to the heavy lifting that we and other stakeholders have committed to in order to create a positive and productive environment for film and television in Ontario," said Jim Mirkopoulos, vice president of operations at Cinespace studios, where the fifth season of NBCUniversal skein "Warehouse 13" and Paul W.S. Anderson's sword-and-sandal pic "Pompeii" will lense this year.
"Lost Girl," "Rookie Blue" and "Beauty and the Beast" were among 140 Canadian series that spent $679 million in Ontario in 2012, an increase from 2011's $609 million total.
Foreign feature spending fell to $103.5 million from 2011's record-busting $266 million; that total included Sony's "Total Recall" and Legendary Pictures' "Pacific Rim," two of the biggest foreign features ever shot in Ontario. Both lensed at Pinewood Toronto Studios.
Domestic features spent $120 million in 2012, a drop from 2011's $161 million on the back of more production — 39 vs. the previous year's 28 — but budgets were lower.
As of Feb. 22, Ontario had 21 productions shooting or in prep, including season two of BBC America's "Copper" and Malcolm Lee's "Best Man II" (Universal).
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Jennie Punter
TORONTO — Ontario's film and TV industry contributed C$1.28 billion ($1.25 billion) to the provincial economy last year, up slightly from $1.26 billion in 2011, the Ontario Media Development Corporation said Friday.
Despite a dip in both foreign and domestic feature film spending, growth in the TV sector more than made up the difference, with domestic and foreign series representing 76% ($943 million) of Ontario's 2012 total.
The most notable trend was the uptick in foreign, primarily U.S., series — an almost 80% increase from $146 million in 2011 to $263 million in 2012. NBCUniversal's "Hannibal," pictured above with star Mads Mikkelsen, and "Defiance" and Netflix' "Hemlock Grove" were among 18 foreign skeins shot in Ontario last year.
In Toronto, the province's production hub, local industryites have noted a higher level of client retention the past two years, reversing the previous trend of series shooting one season in town then moving to a different jurisdiction.
"These 2012 production levels are a testament to the heavy lifting that we and other stakeholders have committed to in order to create a positive and productive environment for film and television in Ontario," said Jim Mirkopoulos, vice president of operations at Cinespace studios, where the fifth season of NBCUniversal skein "Warehouse 13" and Paul W.S. Anderson's sword-and-sandal pic "Pompeii" will lense this year.
"Lost Girl," "Rookie Blue" and "Beauty and the Beast" were among 140 Canadian series that spent $679 million in Ontario in 2012, an increase from 2011's $609 million total.
Foreign feature spending fell to $103.5 million from 2011's record-busting $266 million; that total included Sony's "Total Recall" and Legendary Pictures' "Pacific Rim," two of the biggest foreign features ever shot in Ontario. Both lensed at Pinewood Toronto Studios.
Domestic features spent $120 million in 2012, a drop from 2011's $161 million on the back of more production — 39 vs. the previous year's 28 — but budgets were lower.
As of Feb. 22, Ontario had 21 productions shooting or in prep, including season two of BBC America's "Copper" and Malcolm Lee's "Best Man II" (Universal).
Thank you Variety
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