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Bula Quo!

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Bula Quo!
Directed byStuart St Paul
Written byJean Heard
Stuart St. Paul
Produced byTim Major
Simon Porter
Stuart St Paul
StarringJon Lovitz
Craig Fairbrass
Laura Aikman
Francis Rossi
Rick Parfitt
CinematographyChas Bain
Edited byLewis Albrow
Music byStatus Quo as
Andy Bown
Rick Parfitt
John 'Rhino' Edwards
Francis Rossi
Matt Letley
Production
companies
INDY UK Films Limited
Status Quo Films
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • 5 July 2013 (2013-07-05)
Running time
91 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Fiji
LanguagesEnglish
Fijian

Bula Quo! is a 2013 British adventure comedy film cowritten and directed by Stuart St Paul and starring Jon Lovitz, Craig Fairbrass, Laura Aikman and Status Quo musicians Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt. The film was made as a tax deductible write-off for the band Status Quo, and the budget of the film was part of what was owed to the UK taxman; at the time production started there was a scheme, set up by the previous Labour Government of Gordon Brown, to allow taxpayers to invest a certain amount of money in low-to-medium budget United Kingdom films as an incentive to expand it and keep people in the industry in work.[1]

Although this film was made primarily in Fiji it was classed as a UK production because it utilized a primarily British cast and crew.[2] Several other (technically) British films were made using this same tax incentives, including Hitchcock (2012) and Cleanskin (2012). Bula Quo! was a box-office disaster at the time of its release, and received mostly negative reviews from critics.

Synopsis

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The film is set in the Pacific island country of Fiji and tells the story of rock band Status Quo becoming entangled in a local mafia operation.[3]

Cast

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Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi of Status Quo and Laura Aikman at the 2013 UK film premiere of Bula Quo!

Reception

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Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an aggregated score of 27%.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Status Quo's latest project starts with guitars, ends with guns 9-4-2013, Goldmine Magazine
  2. ^ Status Quo: rocking all over Berlin. BY MICHAEL ROSSER - FEBRUARY 2013 Screen Daily
  3. ^ Richards, Olly (2013). "Bula Quo!". Empire (film magazine). Bauer Media Group. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
  4. ^ "Bula Quo!". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
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