Maryland has pumped millions into a tax-incentive program it hopes will secure the second season of Netflix’s “House of Cards” and lure other TV and film productions to the state. In the 1990s, Maryland was a popular location for Hollywood productions. But it fell victim to the tax-incentive battles that have raged over the last decade, and production dwindled during the aughts. Now, the state is fighting tax money with tax money to build up its production portfolio. “It’s just the nature of the economics of today’s Hollywood that states have to have some sort of incentive,” Jack Gerbes, director of the Maryland Film Office, told Backstage. “Whether a production is deciding between us and North Carolina or us and Washington, D.C., and us and Illinois—the goal is to try to get them to shoot in Maryland regardless of who our competitors are.” Baltimore stood in for Washington,...
- 4/17/2013
- backstage.com
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