Cartoon: New Guy on the Set
By Anthony | February 5th, 2007 | 12:14 am
The new independent movie “Hounddog” has some North Carolina legislators rethinking the way we handle incentives for films produced in North Carolina:
State Sen. Phil Berger of Rockingham County plans to introduce a bill to tighten the state’s film incentives law because of the movie, which could be in line for incentives up to 15 percent of the estimated $4 million in production costs …
Berger said his proposal also would require projects seeking incentives to apply before shooting in the state and to submit scripts to state officials as part of that review.
I find it hard to believe that it will be good for our film industry to put script approval into the hands of risk-averse politicians whose primary concerns are getting reelected.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Movie making is a business like any other. Does the state require a review of every grocery store that plans to open up in the state? This is a stupidity; but I have come to expect this sort of thing from our legislators. Dam!