Watch out Hollywood and film industry, the japanese Mediterranean island of Cyprus that has engineered a name as a traveler magnet due to its pristine beaches needs a chunk of the action: enter "Olivewood" and Nicolas Cage.
The yank actor is stellar in a very multimillion-dollar sci-fi martial arts motion-picture show being recorded in its completeness on the island due to a government initiative giving filmmakers money rebates, tax breaks, and alternative edges.
Cage's action packer "Jiu-Jitsu" is, at the side of journey flick "S.O.S: Survive or Sacrifice" that includes North American nation actor William Baldwin, the primary foreign film to require advantage of the inducement arrange dubbed "Olivewood".
The theme was launched by the govt, that tasked Invest Cyprus to implement it in cooperation with the touristry and finance ministries, in a very bid to draw in foreign investment to the eu trade unionist.
"Cyprus is taken into account by a great deal of individuals as a studio, a physical, natural (film) studio," says Invest Cyprus chairman Michalis archangel.
The island offers deep blue seas and is dowered with white sandy beaches, rolling hills planted with olive trees, archeological sites and ancient mountain resorts -- and year-long sunny skies.
Academy Award winner Cage, WHO got the 1996 Oscar for best actor in "Leaving Las Vegas", told reporters in Cyprus that the island "has been a decent spirit for me".
He spoke of "the luxury" of visiting Olimbos, the best purpose in Cyprus, and feeding on a "traditional Greek lunch with a clay pot saute lamb, it {absolutely was} absolutely divine, the food was great".
'Lack of infrastructure'
Last year, Cyprus hosted its first-ever promotional film conference, attended by dozens of delegates from the foreign industry.
Authorities additionally unveiled "Olivewood", giving foreign and Cypriot producers tax credits and money rebates of up to thirty five p.c of the money spent on photography within the island, furthermore as tax discounts on instrumentation and infrastructure.
A dedicated web site, Film in Cyprus, was additionally originated by the Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency to showcase the island.
"Jiu-Jitsu" producer Dimitri Logothetis and Martins Rozitis, WHO heads the assembly company for "S.O.S: Survive or Sacrifice", were won over, however each agree that the "lack of infrastructure" remains a tangle.
"Definitely we tend to suffer from a scarcity of kit and studios," Rozitis told fetoprotein, on the set of his motion-picture show at the Moni fishing shelter, close to the southern port of Limassol.
"But still there ar excellent spirited folks here and corporations WHO ar commencing to give rentals of studio, cars, equipment," he added.
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