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As the polls predicted, Gavin Newsom came out on top on Tuesday night in the California primaries, becoming the frontrunner to replace Gov. Jerry Brown. He will go up against either John Cox or Antonio R. Villaraigosa in the Novermber election. Both are currently vying for that second place spot. Newsom, the former…

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…

Eleven productions in California have qualified for tax rebates and four of those shows — including HBO's Julia Louis-Dreyfus comedy Veep — are relocating back to the state, California State Sen. Kevin de Leon told a crowd of more than 100 at the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce State-of-the-State luncheon Friday on the…

UPDATED, Saturday, 7 AM: Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. weighed in early this morning on the passage of the bill to expand, extend and improve California Film and Television Tax Credit Program, lauding the move on behalf of the studios, saying it will bring…

EXCLUSIVE, 9:59 AM: Hollywood will still be getting a lot more money from the Golden State but not the $400 million that was announced on August 14 in the state Senate. Last minute negotiations last night between Gov. Jerry Brown's aides and the state legislature leadership have trimmed the increase of California's $10…

UPDATE, 1:30  PM: The state Senate Appropriations committee has just unanimously passed an expansion of California's $100 million Film and TV Tax Credit Program to $400 million. The expansion will also or sure see the end of the current lottery system that determines who gets the incentives. "The amendments will…

UPDATE, 3:40 PM: Eric Garcetti said today that there will be an expansion of California's $100 million Film and TV Tax Credit Program, it is only a question of how much it will be. The remark from the LA Mayor this afternoon came after Garcetti and several other California Mayors met with Gov. Jerry Brown and other…

UPDATE, 3:45 PM: Looks like one of the biggest stakeholders in the expansion of California's $100 million Film and TV Tax Credit Program have forgiven Kevin De Leon for temporarily turning against the issue. Soon after the influential state Senator did an about face from yesterday's lack of support for the widely…

EXCLUSIVE: With little more than three weeks left in the legislative session, Kevin De Leon is demanding big changes to efforts to expand California's $100 million Film and TV Tax Credit Program. If the influential state Senate Appropriations Committee chairman doesn't get his eleventh-hour way, I've learned that he…