The UK's
the Guardian picks up on Detroit's film tax incentives and brings out some numbers.
Excerpt:
Thanks to some lucrative tax breaks, Detroit, and much of the State
of Michigan, has become the latest backlot of choice for film-makers.
In
the past 10 months alone, some 35 production companies have qualified
for $48m in payments towards making movies in the state. In return, the
movie studios have spent about $65.4m making movies in Michigan since
the project began last year.
Gran Torino, the latest film
directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, is by far the biggest project
to benefit from the Michigan plan, while Hilary Swank's Betty Ann
Walters started filming last Wednesday.
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