A new story about Georgia’s film industry seems to come out every two to three days at this point. Although the names of the most recent films to shoot in town change, and the economic impact number grows with each new story, there’s never terribly too much new info in them. I’m not complaining that much though, because [Read More]
As it is with most states, South Carolina is dealing with budget shortfalls and one of Governor Mark Sanford’s solutions is to end the state’s film incentive program. The SC House has already voted to 104 to 7 to override Sanford’s veto of the program, and now it’s up to the state’s Senate to complete [Read More]
In the eight years since the number of states offering incentives to lure film production ballooned from under ten to forty, the incentives have been praised by industry advocates and damned by financial hawks. For many states, it’s been about bad timing, as the incentives for some were enacted just a year or two before [Read More]
North Carolina is keeping busy. The state’s House recently okayed a bill to expand tax breaks aimed at computer simulation games and green-based business parks. The bill will also allow productions to write off actor and director salaries over $1 million. Not sure if the language from this brief piece is the same used in [Read More]
Over the last two years Tennessee, more specifically Memphis, has lost out on some high profile projects to surrounding states. The Blind Side, came to Georgia to shoot, even though the film was based in Memphis. Footloose, which was slated to originally film in Georgia, was going to relocate to Tennessee when native Craig Brewer took on [Read More]