"With today's cabinet resolution, we are ensuring that the German film industry will become a global player in film production," Germany's Culture and Media Minister  Wolfram Weimer said on Wednesday. He described the coalition government's draft bill, which still needs to be voted on by parliament, as a "film booster." According to Weimer, never before has so much money been allocated to the domestic film industry. In fact, it will be almost double anything previously allocated, totaling €250