Mar-08-2011
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Mar-02-2011
Carrie Jones, the Michigan Film Office Director, has just released the Michigan Film Office 2010 Annual Report. The report is required by regulation and details the Michigan film tax incentive activity for the year. Facts and figures shed light on the films and amounts spent and the film incentive approved for the growing Michigan film and entertainment industry.
The key fact for 2010: $293 Million was spent by productions shooting in Michigan. $115 Million in Michigan film incentives were given as a rebate on the expenditures. A net inward spend of $178 Million.
Let us repeat this math as so many fail to grasp its simplicity: $293 Million inward spend – $115 Million rebate on the spend = $178 Million in net inward production spending.
These are the hard facts the opponents and the destroyer of a growing and flourishing creative industry do not want you to know. Likewise they don’t wish you to focus on the Ernst and Young Economic and Fiscal Impacts Report of the Michigan Film Credit (below) that for every $1 (one dollar) spent on the film incentives an additional $6 (six dollars) was created in economic activity.
The Michigan film tax incentive programs support film budgets of all levels from $50,000 to over $100 Million Major Studio blockbusters which employ thousands of hard working film crew. The incentive (actually a rebate) provides incentive for inward investment for movie production, television programming, games creation, visual effects companies (VFX) and music recording. It has launched companies in Michigan dedicated to employe, teach and grow our film crew base and technical assets, including the Raleigh Michigan Studios in Pontiac which is resurrecting an old truck plant and creating jobs.
Contact your representative and tell them to save the film incentive program.
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Feb-21-2011
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The accountancy firm of Ernst & Young was first engaged by Visit Detroit and counterparts in Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids and Traverse City to create a Michigan film tax incentives study. The report has just been released and demonstrates in hard financial numbers what the proponents have been saying all along: the Michigan film incentives work, create jobs and spur economic activity – in a large way.
Read the Ernst & Young Michigan Film Tax Incentive Financial Impact Report
Read the Summary by the Convention & Visitors Bureaus for metro Detroit, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor and Traverse City whom first commissioned the report.
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Feb-17-2011
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Jan-25-2011
As 2011 kicks well into gear the film sector is heating up. Sundance deals are getting done in a refreshing sign of the times. While the impact on the current film finance enviroment has been tough on the film budget landscape, movies are heading into production and Michigan remains at the forefront of the motion picture and television industry with the incredibly effective Michigan film tax incentive program. Companies from all around the world now think of Michigan when they think of making their film. While Michigan helps these filmmakers and their films get made, spending their film budget dollars here, thanks to the film incentive, we are likewise putting thousands to work, creating an industry and a film crew base second to none. Let’s all look forward to another year of incredible growth for the Michigan film production industry.
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Oct-28-2010
Filmmaker / movie star George Clooney is reportedly bringing the Exclusive Films and Appian Way production of “The Ides of March” to shoot in Michigan in February. As reported in The Detroit News, The Free Press and Deadline Hollywood, Clooney is set to star and direct the adaptation of Beau Willimon’s off-Broadway production of “Farragut North”. Also starring in the film are Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood and Marisa Tomei. The film is financed by Exclusive Films & Cross Creek Pictures in a partnership with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions. (More on facebook.com/moviebudget)
Update: ”The Ides of March” has now been approved for the Michigan Film Tax Incentive Program. It is anticipated the movie will now shoot in Detroit and parts of Ohio.
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