Production Budgeting Services

Here is how this works in practice. Accurate French budgeting starts with today's ground truth — vendor rates from Transpalux and TSF in Paris, Panavision Alga grip and electric quotes, studio holds at Bry-sur-Marne, Saint-Denis Cité du Cinéma, and Provence Studios, and intermittents du spectacle scale wages set by the Convention Collective. We build top-sheet to detail-line budgets in Movie Magic, Hot Budget, or Excel templates that match your line producer's reporting cadence, with above-the-line, below-the-line, post, fringe, and contingency layers that survive financier scrutiny rather than collapsing in the first cost report.

Here is the short of it. Tax rebates engineering is where French budgets gain real headroom. We model the thirty percent TRIP rebate for global productions, the Crédit d'impôt cinéma and audiovisuel for qualifying domestic projects, and stacking opportunities against regional funds in Île-de-France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, and PACA — including the eligibility tests that decide whether spend lands inside or outside the rebate envelope. Co-production budgets pass through multi-currency tracking and treaty compliance. With daily cost reporting and weekly variance flags once cameras roll, holding accuracy at ninety-eight percent across half a billion euros of managed spend.