>>Coca Cola would never pull out of Atlanta. The cost would be outrageous. It was a bluff.
Same for most of the film people. The GA film tax credits and the overall low cost of doing business made it such most weren’t going anywhere.
And I guarantee I could scare up an ATL metro-area gay anything - florist, baker, caterer, you name it - in about 30 minutes or less. This law wouldn’t affect that.
That’s the irony on the film business. States actually lose money because of the tax credits. The main reason States pursue Hollywood is the “prestige”, but study after study shows it’s a net-loss for the States.