Apr 25, 2015 | NC Film Incentive Effort
Demerit: For the stunningly rapid decline – and perhaps near-demise – of North Carolina’s film industry, which was thriving as recently as last year. The General Assembly’s shutdown of an incentive program, and substitution of a...
Apr 12, 2015 | NC Film Incentive Effort
By Kristine Kaiser. In 1997, I was a graduate student at the newly minted MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. A year earlier, film producer Frank Capra Jr. had become president of EU Screen Gems. Our writers were excited...
Apr 3, 2015 | NC Film Incentive Effort, NC Indy News, TV Productions
RALEIGH, N.C. — Officials say two television productions and a movie will receive funds from the North Carolina Film and Entertainment Grant. A news release Friday from state Commerce Secretary John Skvarla announced the grants. A grant of $5 million will go to the...
Mar 12, 2015 | NC Film Incentive Effort, NC Indy News
The senior budget chairmen in the House and Senate say they support more grant money for North Carolina’s film industry, though some say a plan to spend $66 million a year on filmmaking might prove difficult in the budget year that begins on July 1. “There’s not a lot...
Mar 9, 2015 | NC Film Incentive Effort, NC Indy News
North Carolina, aka “Hollywood East,” lost its film incentive in 2014, but not its optimism. That’s according to an exclusive chat with Bill Vassar, executive vice president for EUE/Screen Gems’ Wilmington operation, who says the industry is...
Mar 9, 2015 | NC Film Incentive Effort
Adding insult to injury for those working to lure film projects to North Carolina with a scaled-back incentive program, a recent report from the Atlanta Business Chronicle says productions in Georgia are at an all-time high. That state has cameras rolling on 35 movie...