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TV, film production companies to leave NC over LGBT law
Charlotte Observer ^ | April 1, 2016 | Colin Campbell

Posted on 04/04/2016 8:43:43 AM PDT by C19fan

Lionsgate and the A+E network say they won’t film TV shows and movies in North Carolina if the state doesn’t repeal its new LGBT law.

Along with Fox, Miramax and The Weinstein Company, the entertainment producers have voiced opposition to House Bill 2, which replaces local ordinances with a statewide nondiscrimination law that doesn’t include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected categories.

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TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: freedom; hollywood; homosexualagenda; lgbt; mccrory; nc2016; northcarolina; religious; seeya
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Over/under in time till NC folds?
1 posted on 04/04/2016 8:43:43 AM PDT by C19fan
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Good. Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.


2 posted on 04/04/2016 8:45:06 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: C19fan

Learn to live without their filthy money.

We may all be having to do that, soon.


3 posted on 04/04/2016 8:46:37 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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Question for NC Freepers: Do these activities improve the quality of life or economic opportunity for the average North Carolinian? They don’t seem to in Virginia.


4 posted on 04/04/2016 8:46:49 AM PDT by TheConservativeBanker
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Guaranteed that this is a bluff. Call them on it and THEY will fold.


5 posted on 04/04/2016 8:46:54 AM PDT by fwdude
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Let them go film in Chelsea.


6 posted on 04/04/2016 8:47:47 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: C19fan

You ask a good question.

With Governor Pat McCrory running for re-election this year, I would say the day after the General Election in November.

The repeal of Charlotte’s transgender ordinance moved quickly in the legislature and got McCrory’s signature within weeks of the primary election won by Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, with the GOPe anointed man of that hour, Rubio way behind.

KEEP IN MIND THAT LAST YEAR THIS SAME NORTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR PAT MCCRORY VETOED THE SAME TYPE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM LEGISLATION VETOED RECENTLY BY GOVERNOR NATHAN DEAL IN GEORGIA.

Now McCrory signs this bill for I suspect a very important personal reason, his own re-election.


7 posted on 04/04/2016 8:49:45 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS:REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: TheConservativeBanker

The thought control commissars are doing what they do.


8 posted on 04/04/2016 8:49:48 AM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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14 days.


9 posted on 04/04/2016 8:50:54 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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Along with the nfl, the tv/movie industry thinks the universe revolves around them. having said that, it’s probably just a matter of time before NC caves.


10 posted on 04/04/2016 8:50:56 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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One week.


11 posted on 04/04/2016 8:51:23 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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Buh Bye!

Hell - they're prolly the ones bringing in all the queers and mentally ill anyway.

12 posted on 04/04/2016 8:51:26 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: TheConservativeBanker

This is tax money going to subsidize Hollywood. It does NOT build a “movie industry” in NC or anywhere else.


13 posted on 04/04/2016 8:52:07 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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Tell Lions Gate to go film in Brussells!!


14 posted on 04/04/2016 8:56:38 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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Good. Corporate extorition is still extortion. NC would be better off without their perverse presence anyways.


15 posted on 04/04/2016 9:01:19 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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I think the film industry was already leaving NC because tax incentives were recently repealed.


16 posted on 04/04/2016 9:02:04 AM PDT by Cecily
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They're more concerned about discrimination against 1% of the population than the physical safety of 50%.

17 posted on 04/04/2016 9:03:13 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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Let. Them. Leave.


18 posted on 04/04/2016 9:04:16 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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eventually or rather the Hollywood production slide continues.

Hollywood had a facilities monopoly on film development and equipment.

not so much any more. The rest of the world does not care and there are plenty of starving actors and actresses to take up the roles.

Eventually it will all be cgi.

who is real who is computer?


19 posted on 04/04/2016 9:07:29 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: LS

BINGO. They’ve had articles and studies that pointed out that there is no net benefit for having Hollywood and more often than not they lose money. They’ve had fraud also with tax credit where a company makes a crappy movie just to get tax credits which they then pocket the money or sell the tax credits to others.


20 posted on 04/04/2016 9:09:08 AM PDT by aresmars
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