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(AJC) — A few months ago, filmmakers took over Greene’s Fine Foods in Decatur for a day. They turned the building into the fictional Daventry Hills City Hall for the Cartoon Network movie “Neverfail.” “I did it for the exposure,” owner Tommy Greene said. “And they offered to pay.” Greene received $1,000, a tiny portion […]
(Chicago Tribune) — Chicagoans might like to think the producers of “Transformers 3” were drawn to Chicago by its arresting skyline, its capable talent pool and its good-natured willingness to put up with fireballs on Michigan Avenue and gun battles on Wacker Drive. But those local attributes only go so far. These days, movie producers […]
(Washington Business Journal) — Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Monday officially signed into law two bills that will help the Commonwealth compete for film and television productions. One bill creates Virginia’s first-ever tax credit for the film industry. Another increases from $200,000 to $2 million funding for the governor’s Motion Picture Opportunity Fund for fiscal year 2011. […]
(LATIMES.com) — While the nation’s CEOs in general typically saw their earnings slip in 2009, the men — and they’re all men — at the top of the conglomerates that operate the TV networks, movie studios, cable systems and other outposts of the media world continued to command pay packages on par with, and in […]