Entertainment Partners Offers Top-Tier Global Payroll Solutions to Australia and New Zealand Productions

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If you touch the financial side of filmmaking–whether it’s budgeting, tax incentives, accounting, or paying the crew–you know accuracy is key.  But navigating guild regulations, managing complex payroll, and evaluating tax incentive programs and eligibility criteria can quickly become overwhelming. These time-consuming processes require a streamlined, modern solution to meet the demands of today’s productions.

The good news? Entertainment Partners (EP) understands the unique needs of Australia and New Zealand productions, providing the tools and expertise to streamline operations and meet regulatory obligations through a secure, end-to-end digital platform.

Global production expertise with local insights

Major studios bringing talent to Australia and New Zealand from all over the world need a way to manage the complexity of international production with confidence. With headquarters in the United States and offices in Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, Entertainment Partners provides the unique combination of a solid foundation in North America and deep local expertise. 

EP’s global network and extensive knowledge of union requirements for local and international guilds, including SAG-AFTRA, DGA, WGA and IATSE, ensures compliance and accuracy when paying inbound crew and talent, simplifying payroll processing and eliminating unnecessary stress.

Streamlined solutions outpace the competition 

Your production deserves a modern solution to replace outdated spreadsheets and email exchanges. Entertainment Partners provides a sophisticated digital platform designed to manage production data, from digital onboarding, timesheets and approval workflows, to detailed and easy-to-read daily hot cost reports.

Unique credentials and multi-factor authentication help ensure that only authorized users can access the platform, while a closed system eliminates third-party components. With these safeguards in place, EP delivers the reliable solutions your production needs to operate with confidence and peace of mind.

Compliance, budgeting, and incentive support

Compliance mistakes can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars—something no production wants to face. With Entertainment Partners, critical information like fringe rates, cast and extra entitlements, and union obligation information is captured up front during the budgeting stage. Throughout production, EP provides comprehensive payroll compliance support and expert guidance for provisional incentive applications, reviewing budgets and assumptions to help maximise eligibility and avoid costly errors.

EP’s global tax and incentive experts in North America, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia, work together to help stretch your production’s budget, pay talent accurately, and meet all regulatory obligations seamlessly.

Our production accountants also offer full-service support across prep, incentives, production, wrap and post. Understanding how payroll fits into the financing picture, EP ensures appropriate tagging and reporting for the federal and state incentives while optimising the timeline for incentive payouts.

Training that bolsters local talent pools

Entertainment Partners is committed to supporting the development of Australia and New Zealand’s local production workforce, offering free studio-level production payroll training workshops.

Our training empowers payroll teams to master complex agreements, including offshore SAG-AFTRA, DGA, WGA, and IATSE, while training inbound accountants to navigate local and international regulations.

Your end-to-end production partner

From seamless cast and talent onboarding to comprehensive incentive administration and payroll support across multiple territories, Entertainment Partners offers access to expertise at every stage of production. We integrate payroll into the broader production finance picture, ensuring every step–from prep to wrap and post–is handled efficiently and accurately.