MPA’s Charles Rivkin Says U.S. Needs Federal Film Incentives: ‘Production Brings Jobs’
variety.comCarolyn Giardina At the theater owners confab CinemaCon, Motion Picture Association chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin asserted that the U.S.
needs to increase production incentives on the federal level. “Together with our union and guild partners, we will be pushing for more incentives at the federal level this year,” he told delegates gathered at Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace. “We will keep fighting to extend tax measures that encourage investments by studios.
We will explore new policies designed with a singular goal in mind: to ramp up filmmaking and create jobs for our workforce. “Incentives bring production.
Production brings jobs,” he emphasized, saying production of a major motion picture can bring on average $1.3 million per day into the local economy, while paying over $17 million in wages.
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