Is Cynthia Nixon biting the hand that once fed here? She may be a neophyte campaigner for New York State’s governorship, but her recent public announcements targeting the tax breaks given to film and TV production and post productions garnered support from right-leaning think tanks, not progressives. Film professionals: Still think there’s nothing to worry […]
Fox’s Gotham just got NY’s largest film-tax break
ALBANY – New York taxpayers reimbursed 38 shows and movies $155 million from July through September, including the most ever awarded to one production. Season two of Fox’s show Gotham raked in $24.5 million in tax breaks for filming in New York, the most of any film or show since the state starting making the […]
Down But Not Out, California Pols Want More Money to Challenge New York
While New York film and television production has soared over the past decade, anyone concerned about keeping that production here better not sit back and relax just yet. Associated Press reporter Judy Lin reports that California state lawmakers are working to extend and expand the Hollywood tax credit created to keep film and TV production in […]
Massachusetts Film Tax Incentive Drawing Production
As an example of why film tax credits matter, the LA Times covers a $4 million budgeted film “Tumbledown”, which recently shot in Massachusetts. That states 25-percent film tax credit helped swing the production to the Bay State. New York’s 30-percent tax credit was tempting, we learn, but other costs around the film’s production made the Bay State the filmmaker’s choice…
LA Film Boosters Claim They See Advantage with De Blasio at Helm
Boosters of film and TV production in Los Angeles think they see an opening to take work back from New York with the election of Bill de Blasio as mayor. However, California’s funding for film tax credits is still one-fourth of what New York offers. And de Blasio has already set his goals in supporting and expanding the work of the City’s film and TV production office…
LA Film Boosters Claim They See Advantage with De Blasio at Helm
Boosters of film and TV production in Los Angeles think they see an opening to take work back from New York with the election of Bill de Blasio as mayor. However, California’s funding for film tax credits is still one-fourth of what New York offers. And de Blasio has already set his goals in supporting and expanding the work of the City’s film and TV production office…