This has been a problem for decades. The EU and other various specific countries give huge grants and benefits to art projects that basically make them profitable to both make and fail. Uwe Boll's entire career was built on exploiting them, and its the reason why filming in Europe is so common for cheaper movies.
Aye, Canada has - or used to have - film-maker tax credits that amounted to the same thing. So it was more profitable to make a movie that failed, rather than try to compete in the theatres against Hollywood films. So that's why Canadian movies/media of the second half of the 20th century really, really sucks outside of maybe the NFB's short animations.
This has been a problem for decades. The EU and other various specific countries give huge grants and benefits to art projects that basically make them profitable to both make and fail. Uwe Boll's entire career was built on exploiting them, and its the reason why filming in Europe is so common for cheaper movies.
Aye, Canada has - or used to have - film-maker tax credits that amounted to the same thing. So it was more profitable to make a movie that failed, rather than try to compete in the theatres against Hollywood films. So that's why Canadian movies/media of the second half of the 20th century really, really sucks outside of maybe the NFB's short animations.