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IN THE SUNNMØRSKE SETTING: Tom Cruise, here in connection with the filming of “Mission: Impossible 7” earlier this fall, is just one of many Hollywood stars benefiting from the Norwegian authorities’ incentive scheme. Photo: Odin Jaeger
Since 2016, the Norwegian authorities have distributed NOK 127 million in reimbursement to major foreign films, including Tom Cruise and Matt Damon. In return, they have left values worth more than one billion crowns.
Tom Cruise and his producers recently completed the Norwegian portion of filming “Mission: Impossible 7” in Norway, the latest in a long series of major films that have been shot on location in Norway since the incentive scheme was introduced four years ago. years.
According to the Norwegian Film Institute, which administers the rebate scheme, “it will help increase the number of major international film and series productions in Norway in order to promote Norwegian culture, history and nature.”
You can request a refund of up to 25 percent of approved production costs, that is, costs that accrue in Norway and are paid to Norwegian taxpayers.
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The director of the Norwegian Film Institute, Kjersti Mo, tells VG that the incentive scheme has strengthened Norway’s position as a destination for filming.
So far, the incentive scheme has attracted production activity to Norway for a total of NOK 1.107 billion. The demand for the scheme is about double what the budget allows, Mo says, adding that they have had more than enough applicants for all rounds of applications.
– Not only from Hollywood, but also from Bollywood and China and the rest of Europe. It has contributed to Norway’s income, and Norwegian film workers have been given other assignments that they otherwise would have had the opportunity to try, says Kjersti Mo.
Mo especially highlights the recently completed recording of “Mission: Impossible 7”, codenamed “Libra.”
– The fact that “Mission: Impossible” managed to make the recording in Norway under a strict infection control regime shows how good we have become at facilitating such large productions in Norway, he believes.
“Mission: Impossible 7” is also the film with the largest payback frame at 49.6 million crowns. However, this recording is so recent that no refund has yet been paid.
Here are some of the most important and well-known payments of the incentive plan: what they actually received as a refund and the actual repayment framework in parentheses.
“Mission: Impossible 7” (2020) – Still unpaid ($ 49.6 million)
Filming, and a very outspoken Tom Cruise, made their mark across Romsdalen this fall. Cruise, who always wore a mask due to the crown situation, met with Norwegian fans several times during breaks from filming.
However, there was some scandal over the legality of the operation when the crew chartered two ships from Hurtigruten.
THE SNOWMAN: Michael Fassbender plays Harry Hole in “The Snowman”, where several recordings have been added to Oslo. Photo: Solberg, Trond
“The Snowman” (2016): NOK 40.5 million (total NOK 51.1 million for main and subsequent filming)
The film adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s “The Snowman” took place in Oslo, where it was natural to place Nesbø’s police hero Harry Hole. Martin Scorsese, who originally intended to direct, however, wanted to relocate Hole to Chicago, but it didn’t happen.
Michael Fassbender eventually landed the lead role in “The Snowman,” which was not particularly well received in Norway with, among other things, the two roll of the dice on VG.
IRON RING: There were tight security measures when the scenes for the new James Bond movie “No Time To Die” were shot in Nittedal last winter. Photo: Frode Hansen
“B25” (2019): NOK 15 million (NOK 47 million)
The new James Bond movie, with Daniel Craig in his last Bond role, created quite a stir in Nittedal, north of Oslo, when large areas were closed in connection with filming. The 25th film about the superagent has also fallen victim to the crown situation. It was supposed to premiere in April this year, but the premiere has now been postponed to April 2021.
Downsizing (2016) – 4.5 million (4.5 million)
There was also an uproar when Matt Damon traveled to Trollfjorden in Vesterålen to shoot scenes for “Downsizing”. In fact, the entire fjord was practically closed for five days so they could work in peace.
Fun fact: the Norwegian electric car Buddy also has a “role” in the movie!
“Mission: Impossible 6 – Fallout” (2017) – 5.4 million (6.3 million)
The previous movie “Mission: Impossible” also brought Tom Cruise to Norway. The most famous is probably this recording of the stunts that Cruise performed at Pulpit Rock. Admittedly, this sequence ended up in India on the movie itself, but it was Pulpit Rock that got PR anyway.
NORWEGIAN SURROUNDINGS: Matt Damon and Hong Chau have the main roles in “Downsizing”, where Vesterålen was used as a background table in some of the scenes. Photo: Paramount Pictures
“The Postcards Killings” (2017) – 1.1 million (5.6 million)
Oscar-winning director Danis Tanovic took the team with him and filmed parts of this movie on the Hardangervidda. The movie is based on a book by James Patterson and Liza Marklund, and stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Of other awards, it should be noted that the first Norwegian production for HBO Europe, “Preferred”, has received a total of 26.4 million crowns over two seasons, the last of which is now recorded.
Several other major movies, which are not included in the incentive scheme, also contain scenes shot in Norway in recent years, including the Marvel movie “Black Widow” with Scarlett Johansson in the title role (filmed in Sunnmøre), “Ex Machina “with Alicia Vikander (also the one from Sunnmøre) and” Tenet “with Robert Pattinson in the lead role (recorded in Oslo, among other places).
And did you know that the scene where the Hogwarts Express passes through a snowy landscape in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is actually recorded in Lesja at the top of Gudbrandsdalen?
