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Brad Pitt, Kerry Washington & Cate Blanchett Projects Among 13 Films Scoring California Tax Credits
Five years after the vast expansion of California's film and television tax incentive program was inked into law by then-Governor Jerry Brown, big budgets, Oscar winners, remakes and rock bios dominated the 13 films that today were announced as the latest round of allocations.
Led by the $17.5 million awarded to the…
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California’s Film Commissioner Pink-Slipped By Governor After 15 Years
The curtain is about to fall on Amy Lemisch’s 15-year tenure as California Film Commissioner. Deadline has confirmed that the long serving Executive Director will exit the post responsible for overseeing the state’s rich film and TV tax credit program on May 10.
Now Gov. Gavin Newsom is keen to install his own…
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‘Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels’ To Truly Film In L.A., Thanks To Tax Credits
Showtime's upcoming Los Angeles-set version of Penny Dreadful is actually going to film in the City of Angels, thanks to lucrative tax credits from the state of California.
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, which will star Daniel Zovatto, Natalie Dormer and Nathan Lane, has conditionally received $24.7 million as a…
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NBC’s ‘Good Girls’ & Lifetime’s ‘You’ Relocating To Cali Thanks To Tax Credit
Just days after Gov. Jerry Brown inked an extension of California's $330 million film and television tax incentive initiative to 2025, the program is welcoming Good Girls and You to the Golden State.
Pegging its progress in no small part to the rich pickings of plucking series from other jurisdiction to the home of…
Hollywood Unions, MPAA Laud 5-Year Extension Of California Film Incentives Program
UPDATED with MPAA statement: Gov. Jerry Brown signed a a five-year extension of California's film incentives program Wednesday, extending the state’s production tax credit system to 2025. The move will provide an additional $1.65 billion to qualified film and TV shows shot in the state.
The program was part of a $139…
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Jerry Brown Keeps California’s $330M Film & TV Tax Incentive Alive Until 2025
With less than six months before his successor is elected, California Gov. Jerry Brown today extended one last gift to Hollywood with the signing of his last state budget and legislation to continue the $330 million film and television tax credit program.
Inking the $201 billion budget Wednesday in Los Angeles, Brown…
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California’s $330M Film & TV Tax Incentive Poised For Extension To 2025
Five more years of California's annual $330 million in film and television incentives took a big step forward today. A rare unanimous vote in the state Senate in Sacramento passed legislation designed to extend the lucrative program until 2025.
However, coming after a similar vote in the state Assembly earlier this…
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‘Ford Vs. Ferrari’, ‘Coming To America’ Sequel, ‘Scarface’ And ‘Deadwood’ Movie Among New State Tax Credit Recipients
20th Century Fox’s Ford vs. Ferrari directed by James Mangold, the Eddie Murphy-starring sequel to Coming to America and Antoine Fuqua’s reimagining of Scarface are among the big-budget feature films to score allocations in the latest California Film and Television tax credit drawings. Jordan Peele’s new film and…
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Quentin Tarantino’s New Film Among 11 Features Awarded Latest CA Tax Credits
Thanksgiving and Christmas came a little early today for Quentin Tarantino and Sony Pictures. Picked up by the studio last week, as my colleague Mike Fleming Jr exclusively reported, the director's next feature is among the 11 films awarded nearly $62.8 million in California tax credits.
The Chris Sanders’ helmed…
Kevin de León Launches U.S. Senate Bid; Booster Of California Film & TV Tax Credits
Kevin de León wants to be the next U.S. senator from the Golden State. The Democratic leader of the California Senate, who got the state’s expanded film and TV tax credits bill over the political finish line in 2014, today officially kicked off his campaign to unseat longtime incumbent Dianne Feinstein.
The veteran…
California Film & TV Incentives Boosted Below-The-Line Wages By $1.4 Billion
California's film and TV production incentives program has produced a sustained 12% increase in the number hours worked in the state by below-the-line crew members, generating an additional $1.4 billion in their wages during the first two years of the expanded program, according to the latest annual report of the Calif…
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‘Captain Marvel,’ ‘Island Plaza’ & ‘Midway’ Among Films Awarded CA Tax Credits
Captain Marvel, Paramount’s Island Plaza & the Roland Emmerich-helmed Midway are among the big-budget big-screen projects that scored big bucks from the Golden State today as the California Film Commission announced the latest tax credits recipients. One of eight movies awarded the incentives in this round, the Brie…
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