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House committee passes bill aimed at improving filmmaking incentives

Associated Press — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:05:38 +0000

JACKSON — Mississippi legislators are hoping to raise the caps on the state’s rebate incentives for film production. A bill that would make the change passed the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday and moved to the full House for consideration. The state’s current film incentives apply to feature films, narrative and documentary shorts, commercials [...]

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Following ‘The Help,’ county approves new incentives for filmmakers

Associated Press — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:03:56 +0000

LAUDERDALE COUNTY — Following the success of “The Help” and its impact on the Delta, Lauderdale County is hoping to attract some filmmakers. WTOK-TV reports the Lauderdale County Board of Supervisors has approved an extra tax incentive for film and production companies. The proposal offers a 1 percent rebate of the 2.5 percent special tourism [...]

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Major motion picture to be shot in Oxford, first in over a decade

Associated Press — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:10:10 +0000

OXFORD — While Oxford has been the backdrop for many independent films over the last few years, it hasn’t played host to a major motion picture in well over a decade. However, that changes in February when the cast and crew for the upcoming film, “Admissions,” begins filming on the University of Mississippi campus and [...]

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Payton, Brees, Manning among Saints taken by scammer

Associated Press — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:32:06 +0000

NEW ORLEANS — Unlike this season’s winning on the football field, current and former members of the New Orleans Saints who bought nonexistent tax credits from a defunct movie studio are likely to come out big losers — perhaps getting back only 15 percent of their investment. The Saints personnel — including coach Sean Payton, [...]

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‘The Help’ surpasses $100M at domestic box office

MBJ Staff — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:59:44 +0000

According to DreamWorks Pictures, the film “The Help” has surpassed the $100-million mark at the domestic box office. The film’s director, Tate Taylor, said, “We never imagined this film, which began its journey inspired by the enthusiasm of a small group of Mississippi friends, would ever even get made. Now to have it seen and [...]

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Judge tosses lawsuit against ‘The Help’ author

Associated Press — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:06:42 +0000

JACKSON — Did Kathryn Stockett use her brother’s African American maid as the basis for a character in the bestselling novel-turned-movie “The Help?” For now, that question may go unanswered, by a court anyway. A Mississippi judge threw out a lawsuit yesterday in which Ablene Cooper alleged Stockett used her likeness without permission in a [...]

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New law boost state’s film-making incentives

For the MBJ — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:32:50 +0000

JACKSON — Mississippi’s film industry recently received a major boost in the form of new legislation that increases the state’s cash rebate incentive program. HB 1161, which was introduced by Rep. Diane Peranich, who chairs the House Tourism Committee, was signed by Gov. Haley Barbour last month. Effective immediately, it increases the rebate by 5 [...]

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Movie to be shot in Delta city

Associated Press — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:01:55 +0000

GREENWOOD — The movie version of the best-seller “The Help” will still be set in Jackson, but it won’t be filmed there. Officials announced yesterday that most of the DreamWorks Studios production will be shot in Greenwood, a rural city in the impoverished Mississippi Delta region mostly known for cotton fields and blues music. Apparently, [...]

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Read faces charges for bilking Saints

Associated Press — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:00:49 +0000

NEW ORLEANS — The head of a defunct movie studio pleaded guilty yesterday to federal charges of selling $1.9 million in nonexistent tax credits to members of the New Orleans Saints. Wayne Read, 45, who once ran Louisiana Film Studios, LLC, in suburban New Orleans, pleaded guilty to interstate transportation of stolen funds and wire [...]

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