I’ve enjoyed a lot of TV programs and films that came out of Canada over the past 20 or so years.
Amazing that these liberals who run Hollywood, will seek out tax breaks and other incentives from other places. Why don’t they stay put in L.A. and pay the high taxes which liberals love others to pay????
I think California should pass a law mandating that they cannot leave California.
Have these studios ever received taxpayer subsidies? Regardless, these are the same yahoos who claim they want more taxes and they hate Republicans. They should be forced, under compulsion of law, to now eat the sandwich they worked hard to create!
Well, their work is done. Now they can wreck another state.
When Canada offers a superior tax and business climate, you know you’ve got problems.
Even the movie “Battle: Los Angeles” was filmed in another LA....LA - the two-letter state abbreviation for Louisiana.
Well, I hope they don’t come to TEXAS!
Sony animators are going to Vancouver, the visual development and other personnel are staying in LA.
“For qualified visual effects or animation work done in B.C., the combined provincial and federal tax credits can amount to 58.42 per cent of the wages, salaries and remuneration paid to B.C. residents.”
“I think it’s a race to the bottom,” said Mr. Lay, adding work is now moving to Montreal because of incentives there. “So it’s going to be a matter of time until even British Columbia is not going to be able to keep up the pace of paying 60 per cent of people’s salaries. And then when that decline happens, you’re going to see another … cycle of displacement. We’re against having taxpayers pay for movies for U.S. producers who are down in L.A. and are very, very rich.”
Hollywood Studios are Leaving California.
I like the sound of that but pity the people where they land.
Everyone hates California, and would love for it be true that the film and TV business is fleeing, but it isn’t.
Sony Studios is the old MGM. They have 16 stages. They’re booked constantly. They moved a few hundred people whose jobs are done on computers? They still employ thousands in Culver City.
It also indicates that maybe Sony felt it could sub out effects work rather than run their own shop. Shipping it off to Canada is a way to lay off a bunch of people who aren’t willing to move without the PR headache of firing a bunch of industry pros who make a lot of money.
Every single major motion picture company, broadcast network, and major cable network is located within 25 miles of each other in Los Angeles.
Try booking stage space in LA. It’s impossible.
Keep hoping for the collapse of California, haters. I don’t understand all the hand rubbing and glee directed at the greatest state in the union, but whatever. It’s a gorgeous day here today. Still got ice, Michigan? You’ve also got a movie studio sitting empty your taxpayers built.
Psych
Typical liberals: Foul your nest and leave. It’s what they did when they left the Least Coast for California in the first place since in the ‘30s.