I know I told you so.. In fact maybe a dozen or so times, but when I laid out the math the very FIRST time.. Someone should have paid a little closer attention. The Film office folks used a Virginia…
Oh.. I Really Told You So.. I Did The Math
Tag: Film Credit
Hanger 42 – Celluoid Burns Like Napalm
Perhaps no one has yet noticed the similarity between the name and the amount (percentage) of credit provided to film makers for their “investments” into the Michigan Economy? Could it be possible, the sheer audacity of what now appears to…
I Told You So.. Part II ..or 52..
I mean really.. For all those starry eyed legislators who really though it was “found money..” The Mackinac center points out after Granholm admitting the film credit actually COSTS the state: According to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, the…
The Matinee Is Over
Michigan’s hot flick “Rise Of The Celluloid Jobs Maker” appears to be a flop. Touted as a jobs creator for Michigan and hailed by the likes of the Teamsters union and Michael Moore for the ability to produce $20 and…
Two things..
Then Michigan film credit plan is a failure, and the film office staff is incompetent or covering up the dismal failure to keep their jobs.. Then we have the looming mid season budget shortfall notice of $1.3 billion???? ow. Perhaps…
I told you so.
The Mackinac center has the real numbers based on the analysis of spending which resulted in over $48 million that had been given to film makers last year in Michigan. Out of $125 million in “qualified spending, roughly $65 millions…
Film Makers Were Paid $17,142 for each of 2800 jobs
Michigan’s Film office reports blowing $48,000,000.00 of taxpayer dollars in 2008 for the first 10 months of the incentive program designed to bring Hollywood here the the Great Lake State. This was for 2800 Jobs in that 10 month period. …