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Spielberg oversees Need for Speed as it wins Michigan filming incentive
Videogame adaptation Need for Speed – overseen by Steven Spielberg through DreamWorks - will get a filming incentive payment from Michigan to shoot scenes on location in Detroit. The production will spend just under USD5 million locally and get a…
Michigan Film Office promotes Ann Arbor versatility with film location map
The Michigan Film Office is promoting Ann Arbor with a new film map. Locations used by movies throughout the popular university town outside Detroit are labelled and the hope is that it will boost filming in the area. Carrie Jones…
RoboCop remake gets film incentive support for Detroit location shooting
José Padilha’s big-budget remake of sci-fi classic RoboCop will be getting an incentive payment for filming partly on location in Detroit. Like the original 1987 movie the film is set in a future Detroit, although this time most of the…
Michigan location filming fund grows for 2013 fiscal year
Michigan has a film fund worth nearly USD60 million for the 2013 fiscal year. Support for the state’s filming industries has see-sawed over the past 12 months, with the 2013 figure representing new money, plus several million that was unused…
Michigan rules commercials ineligible for state filming incentive
Commercials shooting in Michigan are not eligible for the state’s filming incentive. The state has had to make a distinction because commercials can be eligible for the incentive when they’re promoting productions that have qualified for the programme. Mayer Morganroth…
Tornado feature secures significant filming incentive pay-out in Michigan
An upcoming tornado disaster movie will get a USD12 million incentive pay-out from the State of Michigan. Using the working title Category Six, it’s scheduled to spend around USD40 million during a shoot that will be based at Michigan Motion…
Michigan doubles film fund for 12 months
Authorities in Michigan have announced their film fund will be doubled on a short-term basis in a bid to attract more location filming projects. Sharp revisions last year left the state with an annual fund of just USD25 million but…
Filming incentives and location flexibility won Marvel’s Avengers for Ohio
Filming incentives and flexibility with shoot locations were the main reasons why Marvel’s Avengers Assemble doubled Cleveland, Ohio, for New York City in the summer of 2011. The film - which now boasts the biggest cinema opening in history -…
Raleigh Studios Detroit facing decline after Michigan film incentives change
Raleigh Studios Detroit faces an uncertain future in the aftermath of last year’s dramatic cut in funding to Michigan’s state filming incentives. The studio has already defaulted on one USD630,000 interest payment this year and may have to do so…
Chronicle finds Seattle on location in Cape Town filming superhero teens
Cape Town in South Africa doubled for Seattle for scenes in the new paranormal thriller Chronicle. Using a pseudo-documentary style, the film follows a group of Seattle teenagers who get special powers when they find a strange object in a…

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