A record 51 films will receive tax credits to shoot in California amid a historic downturn in production in the state fueled by an increasingly tit-for-tat incentives race to host Hollywood. The total ...

California’s incentive program to keep film and TV production in state is undergoing a vast, and vastly important makeover, beginning with Friday’s approval of a bill that more than doubles the amount ...

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), pictured last month in San Francisco, is working on a bipartisan federal film incentive proposal. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times) California’s economy might see a ...

The latest round of California’s film and television tax credit program will provide government incentives to 48 upcoming projects, according to the California Film Commission. The slate, which ...

Despite the large amount of money Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is throwing at Hollywood, California’s newly expanded tax credit program for film and television production likely won’t be the best bang for ...

Standing at a movie studio in Burbank, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday formally unveiled a $750 million expansion of California’s film and television tax credit program, part of a push to keep ...

California lawmakers have said many times that the expansion of the film and TV tax credit is a “jobs bill.” But how many jobs will it create? And would it be enough to reverse the steep downturn in ...