Key Highlights
- Global streamers and domestic TV stations will be required to invest at least 8% of their annual net turnover on European content that support the German production sector.
- We understand this applies to both film and TV production.
- Related Stories Festivals Berlinale Juries: 'Rental Family' Director Hikari; Ewa Puszczyńska & Reinaldo Marcus Green Join Wim Wenders On Competition Jury News 'Der Tiger' Becomes Prime Video's Most-Streamed Original German Film To Date If they hit 12%, they will be exempt from the more complex regulations – potentially allowing them to film in English, for example.
- This could, in turn, make Germany a more viable production hub for non-German shows.
- The move has been seen by some as an olive branch to streamers, though it does not appear to have been taken as such.
