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Grant recipients to spend $107 million amid COVID-19 interruptions
Published: Thursday, September 17th, 2020 @ 3:08 am
By: Governor's Office
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Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) joined President Donald J. Trump today for a tour of Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies Innovation Center in Morrisville, North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, July 28th, 2020 @ 1:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I am getting complaints about the quantity and quality of the filming of commissioner meetings.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2020 @ 10:19 am
By: Hood Richardson
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In 2018 Time, declared Georgia “the Hollywood of the South.” By then, Georgia had developed the largest film incentive program in the entire United States.
Published: Tuesday, February 4th, 2020 @ 12:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Bold new movie opens on Friday, December 13 — and there's already huge controversy
Published: Sunday, December 15th, 2019 @ 9:12 am
By: LifeZette
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'American Sniper,' 'Lone Survivor' and other powerful flicks honor the strength, grit and sacrifice of extraordinary Americans
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 @ 8:30 am
By: LifeZette
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The House passed a franchise tax cut and expanded film grants despite an attempt to shoot down the expansion of film grants.
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2019 @ 11:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A corporate tax cut expected to pass at the end of the General Assembly’s session surprisingly wound up on the cutting room floor.
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2019 @ 12:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, Governor Roy Cooper announced the creation of the Governor’s Advisory Council on Film, Television and Digital Streaming, which will lead efforts to continue growing North Carolina’s successful film industry.
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2019 @ 8:14 am
By: Governor's Office
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Since 2005, North Carolina has provided over $404 million in subsidies (tax credits and grant payments) to film production companies.
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 6:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If it were a film, North Carolina’s subsidy program wouldn’t be a box office smash. A recent study from the Western Carolina University Center for the Study of Free Enterprise says the $400 million North Carolina taxpayers have invested in film subsidies has failed to pay dividends.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 2:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A bipartisan group of state representatives filed House Bill 751, resurrecting a 25 percent tax credit program.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 5:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers, Educators Meet in Greensboro to Address Dropout Crisis, Ways to Promote Students’ SuccessOn Friday, North Carolina legislators and public higher education officials gathered at UNC Greensboro to discuss “Unlikely,” a documentary film about America’s college dropout crisis.
Published: Monday, April 22nd, 2019 @ 4:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Time Magazine’s Aug. 6 special issue focuses on the American South. One of the articles is about Georgia’s film production incentives, entitled “How Georgia Became the Hollywood of the South.”
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 @ 3:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As state and federal agencies investigate GenX in groundwater, Carolina Journal has learned GenX and its family of unregulated emerging contaminants are present in some of the solar panels increasingly dotting North Carolina's landscape
Published: Wednesday, July 25th, 2018 @ 10:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina Democrats have never opposed lowering taxes on big business. You may hear a lot of rhetoric to the contrary during the election cycle. Here's why, to borrow a phrase, you should take that rhetoric seriously but not literally
Published: Monday, June 4th, 2018 @ 4:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The proposed new state budget would not expand the state’s overall film grant program this year
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 @ 12:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two projects have been awarded North Carolina Film and Entertainment Grants to support productions in Wilmington and the High Point area, Governor Roy Cooper announced today. The awardees include the feature film "Words on Bathroom Walls," an adaptation of an acclaimed novel, and a set of five comme
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 @ 9:42 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The state legislature regularly draws fire for its decision to end an old, very generous tax break for film and TV production and replace it with a smaller, more-targeted grant program
Published: Thursday, March 15th, 2018 @ 10:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Cooper signed into law S.B. 582, an act (i) to make technical, clarifying, and other modifications to the current operations appropriations act of 2017 and to related legislation and (ii) to make agency technical corrections
Published: Thursday, October 12th, 2017 @ 11:40 pm
By: Governor's Office
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State Rep. Ted Davis, R-New Hanover, bucked conservative critics who strenuously objected to making a $30-million taxpayer subsidy to Hollywood a permanent annual state allocation
Published: Monday, October 9th, 2017 @ 11:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Another session of the N.C. General Assembly - this one especially short - should convene at noon Oct. 4.
Published: Friday, October 6th, 2017 @ 1:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Film director Rob Reiner and other Hollywood notables have railed against North Carolina, threatened not to work in the state again, and raised the possibility of economic boycotts because of House Bill 2, the so-called bathroom bill
Published: Sunday, March 26th, 2017 @ 12:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposal to try to lure the film industry to make movies, TV shows, and commercials in North Carolina by returning to an abandoned tax incentives program is meeting resistance
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Back in the 60s, photography for me was simply 35mm ASA 100 day light film and no automatic anything.
Published: Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016 @ 12:37 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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With election day less than a week away, the State Board of Elections is reminding journalists and the public of guidelines for filming at polling locations.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 3:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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An East Carolina University student-made film about the mysterious Lost Colony is the first of several ECU productions expected to debut on UNC-TV.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 5:50 pm
By: ECU News Services
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