New York weighs bigger tax credits for film, TV productions

New York weighs bigger tax credits for film, TV productions

New York taxpayers have long helped fund major TV and film productions. Now, Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to boost that support even more. Since 2017, households across the state have contributed to entertainment subsidies, and Hochul is proposing a sizable increase in the film tax credit program. Household tax shares According to Empire State Development and The New York Times, several well-known TV shows rank among the top recipients. “Blue Bloods”…

NJ Film Expo makes sales pitch to film and television

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Lights, camera, crisis: California battles to stop film industry exodus

California lawmakers and industry leaders are rallying behind a new push to revive the state's struggling film and television industry, citing historic declines in production and growing concern over job losses and economic fallout across the state. The proposed California Film and Television Jobs Act, outlined in Assembly Bill 1138 and Senate Bill 630, seeks […] The post Lights, camera, crisis: California battles to stop film industry exodus fi…

Subsidy Sheet: Times “data” reporting fumbles facts of NY’s billions in film/TV subsidies - Reinvent Albany

Give the NY Times “data reporter” two studies on New York’s billions in payments to Hollywood film and TV producers and multinational media corporations. The more recent (and far more methodologically robust and transparent) study was done by a nationally-recognized independent consultancy based in Philadelphia that does not do consulting for the film industry. The other study was done by an upstate firm that frequently works for economic develo…