‘Suits: LA’ Scores California Tax Credits With ‘Community – The Movie’ & Shailene Woodley’s Janis Joplin Biopic
deadline.comSuits: LA is going to be filming in the City of Angels in no small part thanks to some hefty help from Sacramento. Along with the long-anticipated Community – The Movie, a look at Hulk Hogan’s pile-driving destruction of Gawker from Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and a Shailene Woodley-starring Janis Joplin biopic, the Stephen Amell-led series is one of 19 successful projects that were announced today that will benefit from the Golden State’s coffers.
Overall, the projects will receive a total of $51.6 million in incentives from California’s film and TV tax credits program.
In total, the 18 features and Suits: LA are expected to employ 2,768 crew members, 1,086 cast members, and 16,997 background performers.
The California Film Commission estimates the projects will together generate an estimated $284.4 million in qualified expenditures with $112.1 million of that going to qualified wages.
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