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http://www.deadline.com/2012/05/california-film-tv-tax-credits-lottery-set-for-june-1/ By THE DEADLINE TEAM The California Film Commission will choose by lottery on June 1st those qualified movie and TV production projects that will receive 2012 tax credits under the state’s production incentive program. The selected projects, which had to qualify and apply during the previous year for consideration, will share $100 million in credits. [...]

http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_20499885/movie-industry-representatives-learn-latest-100-million-tax By Bob Strauss, Staff Writer Whether from Humboldt County or Hollywood Boulevard, the film commissioners and industry officials who gathered Friday for the California Locations Breakfast had the same goal: Keep as much production as possible from running away to other states and countries. At the event in West Hollywood, California Film Commission Executive [...]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/california-film-commission-hbo-spain-san-francisco-317576 by Alex Ben Block At a West Hollywood panel, the locations-centric discussion cited the slim budget of “Hemmingway & Gellhorn,” despite the Spanish Civil War setting, and urged filmmakers to push Sacramento to extend the incentive program. When literary lion Ernest Hemmingway and his journalist lover Martha Gellhorn, played by Clive Owen and Nicole [...]

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/483267-California_Committee_Passes_Production_Tax_Credit_Extension.php Bill now goes to Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation By John Eggerton — Broadcasting & Cable The California State Assembly’s Arts & Entertainment Committee voted Tuesday to approve a five-year extension of the state’s film and TV tax credit program. In an effort to stem the flight of production to other states — [...]