Matt Damon’s new feature, environmental drama Promised Land, based itself in Western Pennsylvania when the filming incentives and logistics appealed to the production team. The film focuses on a natural gas executive trying to get drilling rights in a Pennsylvania town.
America’s federal filming tax break is among the programmes to be extended by the fiscal cliff deal approved by Congress earlier this week. Politicians avoided the real danger of recession as a series of tax cuts was set to expire at the end of 2012.
Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, is to consider new location filming incentives to encourage productions to remain in the state. Authorities would like to see location fees removed and a streamlined process for considering filming requests.
The Iron Range region of Minnesota in the US has had a location filming incentive approved. Filmmakers shooting in the north-east part of the state, named for its iron ore mining industry, could be eligible for a 20% rebate on local production expenditure.
Television drama Teen Wolf has relocated to Los Angeles to take advantage of newly-available funds in California’s state filming incentive. The show filmed its first two seasons in Atlanta – using Georgia’s incentive support – after it was put on the waiting list for California’s tax credit.
France’s Tax Rebate for International Production (TRIP) could see a big increase in 2013. Plans to more than double the existing per-production cap for international feature productions could potentially become law within the next six months.
Malaysia will launch a 30% location filming incentive on January 1st 2013. The programme has been mooted for the best part of a year but was finally confirmed at a luncheon event sponsored by the 13th Asian Television Forum and ScreenSingapore.
Australia is under pressure to increase its location offset for filmmaker David Fincher and star Brad Pitt. The pair are set to work together again on Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, but the studio wants a more generous location offset to commit to an Australian shoot.