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California lawmakers are seeking a big boost to the state’s film and TV tax credit program, a $180 million hike that would bring the Golden State more in parity with New York. The state Senate Budget Committee adopted a proposal last week that would provide $90 million per year for 2021-22 and 2022-23. That is a far…

(Updated with revised budget information) Flying high on a vaccinated California opening up and ramping up economically, Gavin Newsom today gave the Golden State's efforts to attract more Hollywood business a shot in the arm. A $30 million dollar shot in the Film and TV tax credit arm to be exact. Handing out billions…

The Flight Attendant and Chad are swooping in to the Golden State for their second seasons. As Hollywood production kicks back into full gear from the coronavirus, the California Film Commission said Monday that HBO Max’s Kaley Cuoco-starring thriller and TBS’ Nasim Pedrad-created and -starring sitcom have been…

Dangling $86.9 million in front of some big-ticket projects from Oscar winners and former Desperate Housewives, the California Film Commission was feeling particularly generous this morning. Joel and Ethan Coen's new Scarface, the Eva Longoria helmed Flamin Hot, Steven Soderbergh's HBO Max-set KIMI with Zoë Kravitz, wh…

A Zoom press conference Tuesday featuring California Film Commission director Colleen Bell and Dee Dee Myers, the state's newly appointed director of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, was disrupted by a Zoom-bomber who spewed racist and sexist profanities, accompanied by fits of loud…

As television production continues to ramp up in Hollywood and coronavirus cases surge in America, Hunters and The Right Stuff are heading out West thanks to some generous tax credits from the state of California. Amazon Prime's drama series about chasing Nazis and the latest adaptation of Tom Wolfe's space race novel…

Several major films primed to begin production just got some big bucks to shoot in California. Netflix's Russo Brothers-directed The Gray Man, the Jessica Chastain-starrer Losing Clementine and an untitled Jordan Peele project for Universal were among nine films allocated $50,053,000 collectively in the last round of…

HBO's In Treatment is officially back in session and, along with TBS' Daniel Radcliffe-fronted Miracle Workers, is coming to California thanks to some generous tax credits from the state. There are no definite details on whether Gabriel Byrne will be returning as psychotherapist Paul Weston in the premium cabler drama…

Production in the Golden State may still be in a state of stasis due to the coronavirus pandemic. Yet the money pipeline is flowing strong, as the more than $40 million in tax credits that California allocated today made very clear. With just days left on Program 2.0 of the state's $330 million annual film and…

Paul Audley, president of FilmLA, the city's film office, said today that he expects film and TV production to restart in Los Angeles in reverse order of how it screeched to a sudden halt last month at the start of the COVID-19 shutdown – with smaller productions getting the first jump once the state eases its mandator…

One day, cameras will roll again and film and TV production will resume in California, and when it does, Colleen Bell, executive director of the California Film Commission, says that the Commission stands ready to assist those who qualify for the state's $330 million-a-year film tax credit program. In the meantime…

The state of California is putting some serious money into trying to get a President out of office, but not that POTUS. FX's Clive Owen as Bill Clinton's Impeachment: American Crime Story joins 15 other small screen offerings today as the latest recipients of the Golden State's lucrative tax incentives. Just over a…