| Bula Quo! | |
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| Directed by | Stuart St Paul |
| Written by | Jean Heard Stuart St. Paul |
| Produced by | Tim Major Simon Porter Stuart St Paul |
| Starring | Jon Lovitz Craig Fairbrass Laura Aikman Francis Rossi Rick Parfitt |
| Cinematography | Chas Bain |
| Edited by | Lewis Albrow |
| Music by | Status Quo as Andy Bown Rick Parfitt John 'Rhino' Edwards Francis Rossi Matt Letley |
Production companies | INDY UK Films Limited Status Quo Films |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Countries | United Kingdom Fiji |
| Languages | English 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.