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Some interesting observations there, qaz123.

What you say makes sense. Great story in April/May Forbes magazine about a company called BlackMagic from Australia.

How An Aussie From The Housing Projects Became A Billionaire Making Gear For Next-Gen Spielbergs

The entrepreneur builds low priced video cameras based on Apple iPhones that sell for as high as $6,000. Competing products from Sony cost $95,000 and up.

The story explains how a lot of visual effects are used in movies nowadays. For instance, the entire background for a scene could be virtual reality.

From the story:

"If you’re going to put nine cameras on a rig, you must have at least ten cameras on location. If those cameras are [gold standard] Alexas, you’re talking about $500,000. The studio is not gonna pay,” says Nicholson, noting that [his] turquoise ocean scenes were shot in Puerto Rico, color-corrected on set using [cheap] DaVinci Resolve software and streamed at 20k resolution on a 160-foot-wide LED screen surrounding the actors during filming on a soundstage in Burbank, California."

Bottom line, high quality, low end cameras are delivering 90% of the value of cameras that cost 10 times as much. And you can separate the background (using visual effects) from the foreground in your film.

That opens up filming sites to almost ANYWHERE. Indie movie makers get a path to cheaper production. And I surmise there will be less demand for the hassle/trouble of shooting movies in remote locations like Georgia.

Unless of course, Georgia is subsidizing you for every Georgia job per year at $360 million and another $800 million on top in expenses you can tack onto the bill you send Georgia.

Has there ever been a state as corrupt as the Georgia Peach? Rotten for Georgia taxpayers, but a really sweet deal for Hollywood and Kemp's friends.