Some Ohio legislators want to dim the lights on a program aimed at luring filmmaking to the state that offers up to 30 percent rebates for production cast and crew wages and other in-state spending.
Some of Hollywood's biggest hit movies and equally big bombs have something in common: They were shot in Ohio, taking advantage of a 10-year-old tax credit incentive program.
"I care about the opinion of Bobby, a Buckeye from Beverly, not necessarily Bobby De Niro from Beverly Hills," said House Speaker Larry Householder, a Republican from Glenford who questions why the state should be giving inducements to Hollywood. The House version of the $69 billion state budget eliminated the tax credit.
Among the good, great and, well, not-so-good films that took advantage of the tax credit in recent years: — With a back tattoo calling himself"I Am Wrath ," John Travolta got revenge on bad guys in Columbus alleys and buildings, and went by Buckeye Donuts on his way direct-to-video in 2016. He returned to Ohio to be the bad guy in Cincinnati scenes of the panned 2018 mobster biopic"Gotti."
The speaker explained that the House-proposed budget aims to cut Ohioans' taxes while targeting"special tax plans that benefit only specific group" for a consistent tax policy and"level playing field." However, the AP reported recently there hasn't been a wide reaction to the recently passed restrictive abortion law in Georgia, which has become a heavyweight movie industry host.
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