KC Film Office invites you to advocate for the arts and film industry in Jefferson City Tuesday, March 3 (new date) KC Film Office is joining Missouri Citizens for the Arts advocacy day in Jefferson City, and Missouri film industry supporters are encouraged to attend. The Missouri Film Incentive bill(s) are supported by Missouri Citizens […]
Film Tax Credits Legislative Update
Missourinet took a look at potential 2019-2020 legislation, check out to full report here. Long before the new Missouri Legislative session begins in January, lobbyists, lawmakers and activists begin to rally around their respective bills. Here are a few that may live to see another day (or live in another version) in Jefferson City in […]
Bringing Hollywood to the Show Me State
BY MIA POHLMAN The Show Missouri Film and Digital Media Act seeks to generate new revenue for the state We all know: in 2013, the cast and crew of “Gone Girl” graced the streets, bars and riverfront of Cape Girardeau for six weeks. Here in Cape Girardeau, the film’s economic impact looked like this: 116 […]
Movies and TV shows set in Missouri aren’t filmed here, but reboot of incentive program could change that
By Jack Suntrup St. Louis Post-Dispatch JEFFERSON CITY • Missouri hasn’t offered perks for film studios in several years — and producers have taken note, shooting scenes set in Missouri in other, more generous states. But, if it were up to Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe, the state would reboot its modest incentive program, with the goal […]
True Detective Season 3 Shoots in Ozark Mountains
The third season of HBO’s hit anthology series True Detective kicked off with a bang on Sunday night, and fans of the show who’ve followed the drama as its unraveled crime mysteries in, first, rural Louisiana and then southern California now find themselves in a part of the country that was once mysterious but now is brimming […]
Georgia Film and TV Production Industry – $7 Billion A Year Driven By Incentives
According to Georgia’s Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office, 245 film and TV productions were shot in Georgia during fiscal year 2016 (between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016). Those productions spent $2.02 billion during that time and generated an economic impact of $7.2 billion. (Much of the state’s production is located in and […]