Archive for June, 2010

It just seems to keep happening.  Yet another report of film incentive abuse, this time in state film incentive leader Michigan.  This story sounds similar to the corruption problems in Louisiana and also involves the construction of a new film studio.  Below is a video report put out by the Mackinac Center for Public...
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Roger Moore’s blog at The Orlando Sentinel had an interesting post on June 4th titled “Marmaduke, Killers and the case FOR ‘Runaway Production.’”  Moore seems to suggest that “Marmaduke” sucked because it was “lazily” shot in Southern California and may have been less offensive to him had it been filmed in Kansas without sucking...
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Richard Corliss of Time Magazine wrote an interesting piece on the poor box office performance so far this summer.  I don’t often write about such articles, as they are not about runaway production or film incentives specifically.  However, the overall economic health of the industry is important to those issues, naturally, and I am...
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Thank you to Phil Drake for telling me about Zach Patton’s recent article in this month’s edition of Governing Magazine.  The article is an excellent introductory primer on the “state” of state film incentive programs in the US.  One thing that is debated about in the academic literature on international film production and runaway...
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The MPAA’s 2010 Economic Impact Report of the TV & Film Industry in the US is now available in the report library.  The report is based on economic data from 2008 and is less comprehensive than the 2009 report, which used economic data from 2007.  Much of the six page report this year focused...
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