Latest in tax incentives

Days after local politicians and the MPA trumpeted that Georgia is reopening its busy film and TV production sector, the future of its lucrative tax credit incentive program suddenly appears cloudy. The state’s Senate Finance Committee has axed parts of wider legislation that would have expanded the program that’s…

MPAA chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin praised New Jersey’s passage last month of aggressive new film and TV production incentives, saying the new rules have unlocked interest from a range of major producers. In a statement today, Rivkin saluted New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy for signing the new law creating a tax credit…

The WGA East and its supporters in the New York state Legislature are taking another crack at a bill that would allocate $5 million in tax incentives to TV shows shot in the state that hire women and minority writers and directors. Unlike the bill that was vetoed in December by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, this incentive would…

After seven years without offering tax incentives for film and TV production, New Jersey is poised to implement aggressive new benefits to producers that would be worth up to $425 million over five years. Proponents and observers of the humming production scene in and around New York City say the move is likely to…

Netflix, which won approval last week  to ramp up a production unit in Canada, its first outside the U.S., is hitting back at criticism that the deal afforded Netflix special treatment and allowed it to skirt the rules governing other content players in the country. Corie Wright, director of global public policy…

The invaluable Encores! series brought back Lady Be Good, in 1924 the first Broadway outing by brothers George (music) and Ira (lyrics) Gershwin. Don’t expect a commercial transfer from this bit of silliness, lovingly if inconsequentially revived in concert form, even if it gives us the long-overdue return of one of…

Ahead of the signing this week of a much-enlarged California production tax-incentive package, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told a conference of U.S. and Chinese film and TV executives that “Hollywood is open for business and we will roll out the red carpet” for projects that bolster the city’s entertainment…

Whoever wins the November runoff election between Sheila James Kuehl and Bobby Shriver, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will get at least one new board member this year who vows to make the County more film friendly. At least that’s what we heard from both Kuehl, an actor best known for The Many Loves Of Do…