well teh director said Michigan was the best and why deniro, Eastwood
and Speilberg are going there currently
I think the word is out from the Hollywood guys that Michigan can offer
the best bang for the Bux
In my estimation its true... years ago I received a Order from Universal
for Movie reels... I didnt ship as I thought it was a Joke... It wasnt..
they said it was cheaper to buy it from me in OHIO than requistion
from on the Lot.... so they called and said whers the REELS.... I said
HUH i though you were jokeing
true story.. this also happened from Disney and Paramount that had me
make props because the inside guys were too expensive... It shocked me
howevere midwest costs are less than East or west costs for shop times.
just basic facts,, Thats why I never went there because I could never
afford unless the costs were like 1 /3
of what they are.. I love Californias beauty and all... just seemed so
highcost to me.
Hope that helps. actually I love east coast and west coast,, this was
just a dollar and cents conceptual theory
Remember we have lots of engineering talent in the midwest plus I think
they say 75% of people in USA are between Newy York- Chicago, Cinci and
Detroit and Philly- YO
Jeff Potokar wrote:
most states offer tax incentives of breaks of some kind.. different
percentages, etc. OH and MI are not unique in this regard.
On Jun 12, 2009, at 3:20 AM, Roland Lataille wrote:
Is this something most states do? Connecticut also does it -
http://www.cultureandtourism.org/cct/taxonomy/taxonomy.asp?DLN=43531&cctNav=|43531|
<http://www.cultureandtourism.org/cct/taxonomy/taxonomy.asp?DLN=43531&cctNav=%7C43531%7C>
Roland
--- On Thu, 6/11/09, Tom Martin
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
From: Tom Martin <[email protected]
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Subject: [MOPO] MOPO- MOVIE making in MICHIGAN -anyone interested?
To: [email protected]
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Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 10:00 PM
Hello Mopo...
over memorial day my son and I went looking at Irish Hills
Michigan as we used to go there to visit
the prehistoric forest dino park and Stagecoach stop a old west
town, and Mystery Hill...
Well. they are all closed and for sale... so we just looked and
thought hmmmmm cooll.....
Well when i came home I had this idea to email a director friend
and tell him that I thought the abandoned places would make a
great film set.
So he came up and looked. See,, Michigan is offering a 42% tax
incentive to film there and so he was perked up
to consider it,
So I am helping to get interested parties to make Low budget
Horror films in the 150-300 K area.
The Director was part of the Sam Raimi original Crew that did
Evil dead and Army of Darkness and
he has been selling projects direct to DVD and also Scifi
Channel. He recently did " Boogymn3" for
Ghosthouse pictures(Raimis co) and has several movies in Post.
He is associated with KNB studios Kurtzman and they built a studio
in Ohio called Precinct 13 productions. The Director Is Gary
Jones you can see filmography on IMDB
A local friend here introduced me who has been in several
Pictures with Gary . I thought I would see if any Mopo friends
would like to get involved in High Risk movie Making.
I told them that I would help only if people understood that
Movies are high risk However I thought perhaps to some it maky be
a interesting way to be part of the process and sometimes these
things actually make money.
I see potential areas in the product placement area and
merchandise and other related areas.
The Michigan and Ohio areas have all kinds of inexpensive areas
to shoot at and lots of locations that are visual and special.
We have sand dunes , water, trees, caves, lots of old cars props
and more. old homes .. much more
The movie Grand torino was shot in detroit. I also know of a
sound stage that has lights and powere and was a former studio
used to make car commercials. We also have crews ready to work...
And because of Michigans bleak job situation all is negociaable
lets make movies in Michigan and Ohio.!! ... Jeff Daniels Lives
there and is a advocate of local films !
this makes perfect sense to make movie in Michigan they will
roll out the red carpet for filmmakers!
Tom
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