Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, film programmer, and cinema owner.
His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture and a wide variety of other films, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, alternate history, and features of neo-noir film.
Quentin Tarantino’s Final Film Snags Big Tax Credits From California; “Thrilled To Be Making #10 In LA,” Director Says
deadline.comQuentin Tarantino is going to make his self-declared “final” film in his hometown of Los Angeles, and the Golden State is welcoming the Oscar winner with open and lucrative arms.
Snaring $20, 213,000 for #10, the Oscar winner was among 16 films conditionally approved for $77.8 million in total tax incentives today by the California Film Commission. “I love shooting in California,” Tarantino said today “I started directing movies here and it is only fitting that I shoot my final motion picture in the cinema capital of the world,” the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood director added of the film that has been bandied about as The Movie Critic in recent months. “There is nothing like shooting in my hometown; the crews are the best I’ve ever worked with, and the locations are amazing.
The producers and I are thrilled to be making #10 in Los Angeles.” Often one to put the City of Angels on the big screen, this latest award follows the $18 million that Tarantino was allocated in in late 2017 through California’s $330 annual program for his last picture.
Proving a boon to the $330 million annual program’s primary directive of job creation, the Oscar winning Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Al Pacino and Leonardo DiCaprio starring Once also help boost on-location shooting days in Greater LA in 2018 up double digits over the year before.
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