{
  "id": 17371137,
  "title": "Japan’s Film Funds Look Beyond Production Committees to Build New Financing Models",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/japans-film-funds-look-beyond-production-committees-to-build-new",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-31T08:15:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/markets-festivals/japans-film-funds-beyond-production-committees-new-financing-models-1236935964/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Japan’s production committee system, in which a group of companies jointly finance a film and share its rights, has helped spread risk across the industry. But it can also cap budgets at what the industry itself can raise, make it harder for overseas investors to take part and slow decisions when every rights holder must […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}