[quote]sufiandy wrote:
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Bauber is right.
We are losing out on filming too.
The series Breaking Bad is supposed to resemble Riverside California, which is about 70 miles east of Los Angeles, not terribly far away.
They actually film it in New Mexico, because the cost of filming it there is still cheaper than doing it here.
“The vision for Riverside came down to such minute details as the sky and landscape Riverside could provide. In the end, it came down to a tax credit that made it cheaper for ?Breaking Bad? to film in Albuquerque, according to Vulture.com”
http://blog.pe.com/movies-tv/2013/09/27/riverside-breaking-bad-has-inland-beginnings/
Maryland recently gave Hollywood a $26 Million tax credit to keep House of Cards in their state, under threats of leaving if they didn’t get it. It seems they learned from our mistakes.
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Wasn’t part of captain america filmed in england because of cost issues too? I think the best they can do is keep asking for tax credits to match the cost of moving locations, and if they don’t just move filming elsewhere. Eventually the state might get the hint.[/quote]
Yes that’s also true, and much of the new Star Wars movie is also being filmed in England for this very reason.
I can tell you that people are really pissed about the Toyota move, 5300 jobs are gone, in a city with 140,000 people. The surrounding businesses are also pissed as they also benefited from the Toyota plant, and will undoubtedly suffer. I can’t imagine the loss in tax revenues.
This is the 60th business that Texas lured away from California, and when city officials were interviewed yesterday about how this happened, they claimed they never knew about it. They said they were never in the loop. Yet Rick Perry came here twice propositioning businesses to move, and Jerry Brown mocked him, saying it was hardly a fart in the California economy. 60 businesses later, I would call it clinical diarrhea.
This legislature doesn’t know the difference between raising taxes and building an economy.