re: Shots fired: McConaughey, Harrelson & others target Hollywood-CA

Bring business to a more business friendly state. Why not?

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Kind of funny how once those "overzealous Related Party Transaction" regulations went into effect, the constant articles about fraud in the program disappeared. Almost as if the related party transactions were all just schemes to generate inproper credits. Further the amount of production in the state grew since those were put in place.

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Agreed that a handful of jokers ruined it for everyone with fraudulent fees, but the rules put into effect still disincentive people who may have otherwise put down roots.

50 Cent should be able to build a production services division that charges market rates to themselves for support assets and have that spend qualify. I’m sure he thinks he can do that too, but from what I recall, you would have to go get 3 bids to verify your pricing is competitive, then you can still only get credits of 60% of that spend (albeit, it’s been a while).

Above the line (talent) fees are a different story.

With the exception of Dean Devlin getting a place in Jefferson, who else has really put down any long term investment for their own pipeline?

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oh the horror of having to live to SoCal

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Filthiest, most disgusting place I've ever seen. Worse than New Orleans.

The people are even worse.

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Bringing film to GA has ruined it as a red state. People there are like crack addicts, if they think they can hobnob with celebs. And lots of Georgia politicians have sold out to that mentality Film is now abandoning the state, just like professional sports has tried to do. Because they still arent blue enough for them

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1) you think film production is what makes Atlanta swing left? There are many documentaries about the city before they ramped up incentives in 2008 that would make a good argument against that.

2) Film isn’t going to ATL because
- labor relation issues
- strength of the dollar (currency conversion vs Canada)
- structure of incentives for talent in UK (as it pertains to features)
- locations are overshot (JW may want to chime in here)
- and wayyyyyyyy down on that list is politics. Politics bubbles up on occasion when older talent that want attention make a stink, then it fizzles out and they go back.


Staying on point to the original post, TX is strongly positioned against NM to lure in talent post CA-fires because there’s no income tax. They just need more infrastructure and maybe a system that incentivizes sustainability and long term investment.

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Georgia, like Louisiana put all it's emphasis on production

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Never understood why the poor citizens of Louisiana subsidzed ultra wealthy woke Hollywood.

Production but not the politics and social beliefs.

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While this is specifying Texas as being a new media hub, I wouldn't mind seeing this sort of thing cause a wide dispersal of media power throughout the country to create more competition.

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It won’t ever be a wide dispersal. There will have to be clumping simply due to skilled trade worker concentration and the amount of resources each studio shares from the community.

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Never understood why the poor citizens of Louisiana subsidzed ultra wealthy woke Hollywood.

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Why is there a Kia plant in West Point, a Hyundai plant in Montgomery, and a Mercedes plant in Birmingham?

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now I live right across the Red from Texas

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Only two things come out of Oklahoma, son.