Posted on 10/01/2014 10:12:48 AM PDT by MichCapCon
Julie Hinds, a reporter for Gannett Michigan, suggests why she thinks the latest Batman movie was filmed in Detroit, saying the despair and hope of the city offer a juxtaposition for the filmmakers: “Those two sides of Detroit may be one of the factors that make it an appropriate location for ‘Batman v. Superman,’ a cinematic collision between two very different superheros (sic),” Hinds wrote. “Affleck's brooding, mortal Batman and Henry Cavill's outer-space immigrant Superman.”
For the Record says: It was either that, or something else Hinds failed to even mention in her story — the Superman-Batman movie was handed a film incentive of $35 million in August by the Michigan Film Office, which is among the most lucrative deals in the country.
Can we really trust a publication company whose name means “goose”?
Has anyone ever done a study to show these funding deals from a state or city ever pay back to public? I have doubts about the way this works.
Digital Domain was an expensive flop.
October 22, 2009 - Florida Governor’s office says the proposed studio had been thoroughly reviewed, before $20 million pledge of state funds was granted
February 22, 2010 - Port Saint Lucie City Council approves $39.9 million in bonds to build Tradition facility
September 7, 2012 - Digital Domain closes Port St. Lucie office; lays off more than 200.
Subsidies are stupid. Especially when they subsidies crap that nobody will ever see. Subsidizing a big-budget film by a major studio is just crazy.
Pay for your own crap.
Alaska does it too and a lot of things getting somethings are movies that go straight to video that nobody will even hear about. All those shows from Alaska... Alaska State Troopers, those shows about fisherman, gold hunters, ice truckers and stuff were all subsidized and employed almost NO locals.
They aren’t getting any real return on the money except possibly more tourism and how do you count that?
No locals! LOL what absurdity. Fake reality tv.
I meant for the crew actually
No surprise on outside crews.
A few years back up in Charlotte, there was a plan to sell off a long dead mall to make a motion picture studio. The bureaucrats were all for it. They preached about how entertainment jobs would appear. Never mind the union crews and selected others would be pretty much the work force. Lower beings need not bother.
I think the plan died. The local am station when it was still worth listening to did a good job of pointing out the stupidity of the plan.
Ah, sorry, don’t ever watch reality tv.
there was a scripted movie filmed there, had a big name involved but went straight to video, the whole cast and crew was from out of state and apparently they even catered from out of state and still got large subsidies.
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