Iowa’s Film Scandal to Help Georgia?
The Wall Street Journal brings us the cautionary tale of a tax-incentive program run amok in Iowa, the state to which the production “The Crazies” went after finishing in Georgia. While investigators untangle the abuse and misuse in the Iowa tax-incentive scandal (a producer buying a Range Rover, a director buying a Mercedes, and millions of dollars being written off by productions for product placement), that state’s tax incentive program is on hold and productions are said…
Six Productions, No Waiting
Thanks to Georgia’s competitive tax incentives the motion picture business is experiencing a gold rush of productions during the last few months of this year. As of mid-September 2008, producers from six different projects were scrambling to secure department heads and local technicians to work on the following
Georgia House Bill 1100 Nearing Passage?
House Bill 1100 [click here to download PDF] has passed unanimously out of the Finance Committee and will go before the state senate sometime next week. Georgia’s motion picture industry professionals are waiting to see if the senate will pass this new, more aggressive tax incentive measure (meant to revive the state’s moribund feature film and television industry) before the session runs out. Film-GA.com is working to determine how early the state might expect production companies to…