Janelle Irwin TaylorApril 19, 2020
4min309
Run out of stuff to watch? Try these Florida-based films.
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Janelle Irwin TaylorApril 19, 2020
Mitch PerryApril 3, 2017
10min325
Bob Buckhorn announced last month that he won’t run for governor next year, saying it wasn’t worth separating himself from his family over the next couple of years. It’s certainly not for lack of how he would run his campaign, based on remarks he made on Monday in Tampa. Appearing with St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, the two […]
Mitch PerryMay 4, 2016
5min290
While the Florida Legislature once again opted not pass a bill that would replenish the state’s depleted film tax incentive package earlier this year, an investment made by the Hillsborough County Commission to help lure Bryan Cranston’s newest film has apparently provide a solid return of investment to the region. “The Infiltrator” is the adaptation of […]
Mitch PerryOctober 8, 2015
5min406
In the past week, it was learned that two major Hollywood productions intending to film in the Tampa Bay area chose not to because the state had no tax incentives to provide. The Tampa Tribune‘s Paul Guzzo reported on Thursday that “Gifted,” a new Hollywood film starring Chris Evans and Octavia Spencer about a St. Petersburg […]
Melissa RossOctober 2, 2015
3min193
In an email to supporters, Film Florida president Michelle Hillery is blasting the state’s lack of film production incentives, that she argues led a feature film production to choose Brunswick, Georgia to recreate Ybor City for the upcoming feature film Live By Night. “The producers of the film spent months working with the Tampa-Hillsborough Film […]
Mitch PerrySeptember 30, 2015
7min170
2015 was supposed to be the year that the Florida Legislature authorized funding to replenish its depleted film tax incentives package, allowing the Sunshine State to compete with Louisiana, Georgia and other Southeastern states in getting its fair share of movie and television production work. It didn’t happen. Despite the reshaping of the incentives and […]
A.G. GancarskiJuly 21, 2015
4min355
Jacksonville’s Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Breakfasts have been a tradition for almost three decades. In recent years, speakers have included Marc Morial, Soledad O’Brien, Andrew Young, and Bernice King. As many major cities have MLK Birthday Breakfasts, planning has already started, and there’s a short list of candidates emerging. According to public record emails, three candidates are undergoing […]
Mitch PerryJune 18, 2015
8min520
A sizable percentage of the 100,000 or so entertainment industry professionals in Florida feel let down this week. The Legislature once again refused to include money in the state’s $80 billion budget for tax incentives to lure Hollywood to film in the Sunshine State. “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed,” said Gus […]
Mitch PerryMarch 31, 2015
6min210
A Florida House Committee on Tuesday passed a bill (HB 451) that would replenish a tax incentives program to woo Hollywood film, television and digital productions to Florida, but it wasn’t easy. Orlando Republican Mike Miller is sponsoring the bill in the House, while Nancy Detert from Venice is carrying it once again in the Senate. For the past […]
Mitch PerryMarch 11, 20155min211
Like it or not, Hollywood productions, like sports owners, have been able to play cities and states against each other for years to get the best deal for themselves. Tampa Bay area residents are all too familiar with getting burned by giving welfare to rich folks. You don’t have to have lived in the area […]