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The Hollywood film Scorpio, better known as “Mission: Impossible 8”, receives up to NOK 68 million from the Norwegian Film Institute. Much of the film will be shot in Norway.
It emerged from today’s press release on the distribution of the Norwegian Film Institute (NFI) incentive plan.
NFI administers the reimbursement scheme which is to “contribute to increasing the number of major international film and series productions in Norway in order to promote Norwegian culture, history and nature.”
Foreign producers can request reimbursement of up to 25 per cent of approved production costs, that is, costs that accrue in Norway and are paid to Norwegian taxpayers.
– We hope to have Tom Cruise back in Norway, and in the meantime we await the premiere of “M: I 7”, says Culture Minister Abid Q. Raja in a comment.
Tom Cruise has already shot scenes for the last two “Mission: Impossible” films in western Norway, and the new James Bond film, which has yet to be released, was set in Nittedal, outside Oslo, the last winter.
It attracted attention last year when Culture Minister Abid Q. Raja and the government gave Cruise and his team the green light so that they could still come to Norway and film action scenes for “Mission: Impossible 7.”
– We are looking forward to returning to this beautiful country, Tom Cruise said at the time, emphasizing that he loves absolutely everything about Norway: the people, the culture, the spectacular views, the fjords and the mountains.
Now he returns to Norway for the third time.
Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Pattinson, and Michael Fassbender are other Hollywood stars who have been attracted to the Norwegian incentive scheme. A summary VG did at Christmas last year shows that Norwegian authorities since 2016 have distributed NOK 127 million in refunds to major foreign films.
In return, they have left values worth more than one billion crowns.
So far, the incentive scheme has attracted production activity to Norway for a total of NOK 1.107 billion. Demand for the plan is about double what the budget allows, NFI director Kjersti Mo told VG last year.
– There were many great and good projects that were applied this time, and we would have liked to have offered a reimbursement framework to all of them, but as the situation is today, there are only sufficient budget funds for the largest project – “Scorpio” says Kjersti Mo in today’s press release.
The NFI has been generous with funding for the “Mission: Impossible” franchise. Film number six had a repayment limit of NOK 6.3 million, while last year’s film had a NOK 49.6 million limit.
With the current redemption limit of 68.6 million, the 100 million limit is crossed by a good margin.
