The municipality of Budva and the company "Lovćen film" are close to an agreement about the cinema "Cadmus cineplex" in the TQ Plaza complex, that is, about its resumption of operation, after it was closed at the beginning of February.
This was confirmed by the President of the Municipality to "Vijesti". Milo Bozovic.
"We had a meeting with the representatives of "Lovćen film", those talks and attempts to overcome the problem have now started in the right direction and I hope that in a very short time they will have an agreement with the current tenant of our space in TQ Plaza", said Božović.
Lovćen Film did not comment on the discussions they had with representatives of the local administration for "Vijesti".
Years of friction between the local administration and "Lovćen filma" culminated on February 2 when that company, after eight years of management, closed the cinema and sent 15 workers to the labor bureau.
And while it seemed that the two parties could not find a common language, because in the past years they conducted several mutual court proceedings, filed criminal charges, but also made forced collections, it is expected that an agreement is close, and that the Municipality could take over the cinema. Closing the cinema in the year when Budva's candidacy for the European Capital of Culture in 2028 is expected to be approved was not a good message, so the reaction of the Božović administration to solve the inherited problems was necessary.
After they closed the bishop, "Lovćen film" invited representatives of the Municipality on several occasions to come and take inventory of the inventory and equipment... From "Lovćen film", in several public letters addressed to the Municipality, they pointed out that their investments in the cinema exceed the amount of 1,3, XNUMX million euros. On the other hand, as they said earlier in the Municipality, their hands are tied in the talks with "Lovćen Film", because they are bound by the public invitation which was announced eight years ago and on the basis of which the cinema project was given to that company to implement. They are also bound by the parliamentary decision, but also by waiting for the response of the Special State Prosecutor's Office as to whether an investigation is still being conducted in the case of the bishop.
The local administration has initiated several court cases.
In 2014, the municipality and the "Budva Cineplex" consortium, which consisted of the companies "Lovćen film" and "Art vista", concluded a basic contract, which stipulated that the local government annually subsidizes the project with 199.000 euros.
The contract was also approved by the Assembly, and the Municipality undertook to give "Lovćen film" about 20 square meters of business space and about 1.500 square meters of non-residential space in the TQ Plaza complex for 200 years. The then mayor Lazar Radjenovic concluded, however, the annex to the contract, according to which the Municipality must pay "Hunted Film" 2015 euros for 2016 and 398.000, i.e. subsidies for the 2019 and 2020 lease years.
His successor Srdja Popovic in March 2015, he initiated a court process for the termination of the annex to the contract regarding the issuance of real estate. The administration took over the court proceedings Dragan Krapović. For the past seven years, no subsidy was paid to the account of "Lovćen Film", so that company collected the obligation from the Municipality by force, by activating promissory notes.
"Lovćen filma" denied that they received what was stipulated in the contract. Namely, they paid a rent of 13 euros per square meter per month for 20 years, and that they paid in advance for two decades.
It is also not true that the cinema took a thousand and a half square meters of business space in TQ Plaza, but rather over 700 square meters, because the rest of the Municipality did not cede the handover contract, and when it comes to subsidies of 200 thousand euros, as they clarified, that money was not directed for the functioning of the bishop, but for the implementation of 500 free programs.
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