{"id":2269543,"date":"2026-02-06T11:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2269543"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:58:27","slug":"germany-to-impose-commitment-on-streamers-and-broadcasters-to-invest-in-local-content-and-boosts-public-funding-for-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/germany-to-impose-commitment-on-streamers-and-broadcasters-to-invest-in-local-content-and-boosts-public-funding-for-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany to Impose Commitment on Streamers and Broadcasters to Invest in Local Content, and Boosts Public Funding for Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The German government is set to introduce an investment commitment on streaming platforms and TV broadcasters that would oblige them to invest 8% of their revenue in Germany in local content. It has also committed to nearly doubling its funding for the local film industry, the ministry of culture has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a symbol, but a real investment stimulus: for jobs, value creation, and creative excellence,\u201d culture minister <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2191249\/\">Wolfram Weimer<\/a> said in a statement. Weimer is likely to speak about the changes at the opening of next week\u2019s Berlin Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The government proposals state that if the streamers and broadcasters invest 12% or more, they will be exempt from a number of regulations, for example a requirement to produce films in the German language.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow.<\/p>\n<p>More from VarietySlovak Oscar Entry &#8216;Father&#8217; Sells to Further Territories (Exclusive)Animated Movie &#8216;Dragoons&#8217; Boarded by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1127157\/\">Global Constellation<\/a>, First-Look Image UnveiledSean&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German government is set to introduce an investment commitment on streaming platforms and TV broadcasters that would oblige them to invest 8% of their revenue in Germany in local content. It has also committed to nearly doubling its funding for the local film industry, the ministry of culture has said. \u201cThis is not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2269544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2269543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Germany-to-Impose-Commitment-on-Streamers-and-Broadcasters-to-Invest.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269545,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269543\/revisions\/2269545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}