Posted 20 April, 2007 in PA News
Friday, April 20, 2007
By Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
New Mexico has become a mecca for moviemakers and it’s no secret why:Producers go where the money — and incentives — are.
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Posted 12 April, 2007 in FilmUSA
From the Hollywood Reporter
By Todd Longwell
It’s a universal scenario that’s at least as old as “Leave It to Beaver”: Achild asks mom and dad if he or she can do the cutting-edge thing that thekid up block is doing, and the parents reply, “If the kid up the blockjumped off a bridge, would you jump off a bridge, too?” That used to be theattitude of state legislatures when people pleaded with them to establishtax credits or rebates to encourage film and TV production. Federal cropsubsidies might be OK, but production incentives were looked upon as handouts, corporate welfare, or worse, creeping socialism. Just because Canada was doing it, it didn’t mean we were going to do it, too. (more…)
