Kylee Zempel of the Federalist explains her ambivalence about the decline of Washington, D.C. Last year when Capitol Hill was chattering about D.C. statehood, I argued that the District of…
You can almost count upon op-eds and editorials written in favor of keeping North Carolina’s film incentives to cite popular, well-known North Carolina productions such as “Bull Durham” (1988), “Dirty…
First off, WUNC’s poll has nothing to do with film incentives that I can tell. I just find it interesting that 14 of the 17 “North Carolina movies” WUNC identified…
You can almost count upon op-eds and editorials written in favor of keeping North Carolina’s film incentives to cite popular, well-known North Carolina productions such as “Bull Durham” (1988), “Dirty…
Alysia Finley in a WSJ piece today breaks down the film flam game of the Hollywood industry, their dirty little secrets, special deals for their millionaires’ clubs, hustlers in for…
Unlike the usual news stories about how a heavily subsidized industry is an amazing success story, today’s WRAL article about the state’s film credits was all about how the North…
View in your browser. So which is it? Is North Carolina’s Film Credit responsible for only 55 to 70 new jobs ("290 to 350 fewer jobs than would have been…
Here at the Locke Foundation, we’ve written extensively on incentives, including a recent publication by Jon Sanders on Film Incentives. It was therefore with great interest that I read an…
My newsletter this week focuses on the “major dividends from tourism” that the new film “The Hunger Games” is expected to yield for North Carolina. What? Sounds silly and overblown…
View in your browser. The most-talked about movie opening this week, "The Hunger Games," was filmed in North Carolina. If you don’t see how that’s going to save the state’s…