Across the Atlantic, a new production hotspot is taking shape — and it’s not in London or Manchester. Welcome to Digbeth, a once-gritty industrial neighborhood in Birmingham, England’s second-largest city, that’s being rapidly transformed into one of the UK’s most ambitious new creative hubs. Backed by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, the BBC, and roughly […]
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Hollywood may finally be bringing the heat home — literally. After years of losing productions to London, Atlanta, and Budapest, California’s newly supercharged Film and Television Tax Credit Program is starting to deliver results. Among the first big winners: Michael Mann’s long-awaited Heat 2 and Sony Pictures’ next Jumanji installment, both set to shoot in […]
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Hollywood might soon have a new neighbor — and not the kind it can ignore. In what could become one of the most consequential production shake-ups since Georgia’s film boom, Nevada labor unions are pushing hard to lure major studios to the Las Vegas area with a proposed $95 million film tax credit package. The […]
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Donald Trump is once again floating tariffs on Hollywood. Days before a potential government shutdown, the president used his Truth Social platform to threaten a “100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States,” while also taking swipes at California Gov. Gavin Newsom. It’s not the first time Trump […]
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StageRunner has obtained exclusive new renderings of Netflix’s ambitious $1.2 billion production campus at Fort Monmouth — the streamer’s bid to create a “Hollywood of the East” and permanently reshape the entertainment map. The never-before-seen images reveal a sprawling 300-acre campus with 12 purpose-built soundstages totaling more than 500,000 square feet, modern backlots, restored historic […]
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The Westwood offices of producer and manager Steven Paul resemble a time capsule of Hollywood lore. On one wall hangs a framed 1971 New Yorker profile of Paul as a precocious 12-year-old actor in a Kurt Vonnegut play. Nearby sits a vintage Hollywood Reporter clipping chronicling his first major feature, Falling in Love Again, which […]
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California’s Expanded Tax Credits Spark Production Surge, Offering Lifeline to Hollywood Soundstages
California’s decision to more than double its annual film and TV tax credit program is already paying off. The Golden State’s $750 million expansion, up from $330 million last year, has triggered a wave of applications — up 400% year-over-year — as state leaders fight to keep Hollywood competitive against aggressive incentive programs in Georgia, […]
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Before Schitt’s Creek executive producer Andrew Barnsley became one of Canada’s most celebrated TV producers, he remembers a piece of advice from his grandmother: create something lasting for Newfoundland and Labrador, his family’s home province on Canada’s rugged east coast. Now, Barnsley is putting that vision into motion. His company Latitude 47, launched with Son […]
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Ohio is continuing its push to cement itself as a Midwest production powerhouse. Fresh off the success of Superman which transformed Cleveland, Mentor and Cincinnati into Metropolis and grossed more than $581 million worldwide — the state has awarded $46 million in tax credits to 27 new projects. The awards, announced this week by the Ohio […]
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California’s newly expanded $750 million-a-year Film & TV Tax Credit Program is officially underway — and the results are already reshaping the state’s production landscape. This week, the California Film Commission awarded more than $256 million in credits across 22 television projects that are returning, relocating or launching in the state. Among them: Dan Fogelman’s […]
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