Posted on 03/06/2023 4:36:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Of 24 movies selected to participate in California’s Film & TV tax credit program, only three are studio projects, the state’s film office said Monday. They’re helmed by Lionsgate ($21.1 million), MGM ($13.8 million) and Disney ($11.3 million).
Netflix and Warner Bros. Pictures, which have led the way in the previous four allotment of credits over the last two years, have no to titles on the list of films getting tax breaks for filming in California. …
In recent years, studio movies have fled California in favor of places with more lucrative tax incentives. Georgia, which doesn’t have a cap on its film and TV tax credit program, has been the most popular destination. Unlike other high-production states, only the qualified spending portion of a movie’s budget, which doesn’t include compensation for talent, is eligible for credits under the state’s tax credit program.
[Wanna bet that it’s not just the tax incentives? — Ed Morrisey]
Georgia, Vancouver, Toronto.
CC
Has anybody here been to Hollywood lately, it’s turning into a real crap hole of a slum.
Here is a problem that doesn’t keep me up at night.
Not since 2007.
CC
Now that their host is dead they’ll move on to healthier locations.
Georgia winning! Lots of space there for Hollywood productions.
Just like “South Park” predicted:
Robert Redford
This is perfect. Why didn’t we think of it sooner? This town still has some charm left, not the mess we turned Park City into.
Phyllis
Forgive me for being observant, but, won’t we just end up doing the same thing to this town?
Robert Redford
Yes. And the town after, and the town after that. Like termites, we will move this film festival from town to town until we have used it up. And then move on, until every quiet mountain town is like Los Angeles.
Phyllis
Why? Why would we do such a thing?
Robert Redford
Because we have to live in L.A. And if we can’t live in quiet, simple, peaceful mountain towns, then nobody will!
*He laughs maniacally*
Waitwaitwait. Zoom in to a close-up of my face when I do that. Ready? Then NOBODY will!
That’s it.
No. Georgia taxpayers losing. We don’t need movies here
Hey, Hollywood people from your Godforsaken California, I hope you feel increasingly uncomfortable when you leave your sheltered woke hole out there.
Our patience ran out a long time ago.*
*California FReepers are honored exceptions.
This is bad news for the other 49 states.
My other house in So. Cal. is only about 14 miles from Hollyweird.
Last time I was there between Highland and Vine on Hollywood Blvd (my audiologist for hearing aids is there) it was nothing but hookers, drug dealers, drug addicts, and the homeless.
Looked like the worst slums in Tijuana, it’s a dump.
The hollywood crowd should be paying more in taxes and not receiving taxpayer money.
It should be illegal for the idiots who brought on the destruction of California to leave the state
and bring their airheaded leftist schemes to cities and states where sensible normal people reside..
They should have to stay there to enjoy the benefits of their idiotic politics.
Cincinnati is a hotbed for movies these days too. I’ve been cast as an extra in five movies in the last two years alone. I did a scene as a lawyer with Robert DeNiro and Katherine Narducci in January for an upcoming movie directed by Barry Levinson called Wise Guys.
My young adult sons, my fiance and other friends have all been cast in Hollywood productions filmed in Greater Cincinnati.
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