Colleen Bell

The California Film Commission announced the latest round of film projects for the state’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program, affirming the initiative’s effectiveness in achieving three of its key goals: bringing more big-budget films back to California, spreading production activity across the...

The third iteration of California’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program (Program 3.0) is on track to generate $2.6 billion in production spending across California during its first fiscal year, according to an annual progress report released by the California Film Commission.
Program 3.0 was...

Twenty-three feature films have been selected for the latest round of tax credits under California’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program.
They include 13 independent and 10 non-independent projects by a wide range of filmmakers including Aziz Ansari (Untitled Aziz Ansari Project),...

Governor Gavin Newsom was in Los Angeles yesterday (July 21) to sign bipartisan legislation that expands California’s film/TV tax credit program with an additional $330 million over two years, including $150 million targeted specifically at promoting new soundstage development and workforce...

Twenty-two feature films have been selected for the latest round of tax credits under California’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program. They include 11 independent and 11 non-independent film projects representing a wide range of budgets, genres and locations. Consistent with the program’s goal of...

Two additional TV series will relocate to California thanks to the state’s Film & Television Tax Credit Program. The Amazon Prime war crime drama Hunters and the Disney+ historical drama The Right Stuff will move to California for their second season of production. With...

The first round of film projects selected for California’s new Film & TV Tax Credit Program 3.0 bodes well for the resumption of production in the Golden State, with nine feature films representing a wide range of budgets and diverse storylines. Program 3.0--the state’s third-generation tax...

While entertainment production resumes cautiously amid COVID-19, two more TV series are relocating production to California thanks to its tax credit program. That’s the word from the California Film Commission.
The critically-acclaimed HBO drama In Treatment and the TBS anthology...

California’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program 2.0 continues to attract big-budget projects and helps to generate production activity statewide with the addition of Sherlock Holmes 3 and nine other feature films announced by the California Film Commission.
Together, the projects...