Studios that had planned to shoot elsewhere turned on a dime and flocked here, bringing stars such as Val Kilmer and Drew Barrymore with them.
To entice filmmakers to choose Michigan over other competing states, the state legislature passed bills creating refundable tax credits of up to 42 per cent for in-state movie production expenses.
Giving businesses [...]

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Keep the comic book strip movies coming! It’s all the rage right now. The next one to start production is based on the 1970s DC Comic Jonah Hex. And according to Variety, Josh Brolin  is in negotiations to star in it.
He’s in a little bit of a slump right now with the terrible reviews of [...]

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In sporting terms, it’s the Hollywood equivalent of a bloodied prize-fighter suddenly deciding to chuck in the towel and flee the ring in the dying seconds of a long and gruelling heavyweight bout that was almost certainly headed for a draw.
Producer Scott Rudin has abruptly walked away from the forthcoming film The Reader and removed [...]

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The IOC has ordered the review of the tests after it came to light that traces of banned blood-boosting substance EPO Cera were found after the re-test of samples from the Tour de France.
Double-stage winner Stefan Schumacher and Italian Leonardo Piepoli both tested positive for CERA - an enhanced version of the blood-boosting hormone EPO [...]

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A cut Wednesday in the Federal Reserve’s federal funds rate from 2 percent to 1.5 percent may not pack the consumer-friendly punch it used to, because of the nation’s deep-seated economic problems.
Usually, a lowering of the federal funds rate eventually trickles down and helps ease interest rates that consumers pay on credit cards, adjustable-rate mortgages [...]

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The Federal Reserve is working with the US Treasury on plans for a dramatic move into unsecured lending in the hope that this extreme step could help bring credit markets back to life. As well as unsecured lending to banks, this could lead to the Fed directly purchasing commercial paper or funding a special purpose [...]

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A new Walt Disney film about a rapping chihuahua that mixes Aztec warrior history and romance jumped to the top of the US and Canadian box office over the weekend, figures showed Sunday.
“Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” a computer-animated production featuring a dog cast set in ancient Mexican ruins, took 29 million dollars on its debut weekend, [...]

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Hollywood is coming out this fall with a slew of political movies that hit all the hot-button topics as the tight U.S. presidential campaign nears its climax.
“There is a sense now that these political films can really be successful, and they’re a genre aimed at one side of the political spectrum or the other,” said [...]

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Forget Batman vs. the Joker, or Sarah Palin vs. Joe Biden. The most enthralling head-to-head dust-up this year is the latest round in the epic battle between movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and producer Scott Rudin, two of Hollywood’s most ruthless characters.
Weinstein and Rudin, who are rumoured to have hated each other for years, have been [...]

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The continuing rise in film prices at Regal Cinemas should probably be no surprise; everything is going up in price, from food to gas and labor costs, putting pressure on exhibitors as well as the consumer.
That price rise probably accounts for some of the success of the recent Cans Film Festival, which featured free admission [...]

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