Andrew Barker Senior Features Writer Things have always been bigger in Texas. And thanks to some recently passed legislation, Texas film production is finally primed to take on a role befitting the state’s reputation.
After years of watching productions opt for more incentive-rich states, Texas has been home to an immense amount of film and TV shooting over the past two years, with HBO’s “Love and Death,” Paramount’s “Yellowstone,” Apple TV+’s “The Last Thing He Told Me,” the CW’s “Walker,” Netflix’s “Hypnotic” and the Houston-set series “Mo” all setting up shop in the Lone Star state.
And the floodgates look set to open even further with the recent legislative passage of $200 million in state shooting incentives, a sharp increase from the $45 million the state offered previously.
For Nixon Guerrero, manager of Robert Rodriguez’s Austin institution Troublemaker Studios — which staged the largest Texas production to date with 2019’s “Alita: Battle Angel,” and recently shot the Ben Affleck-starrer “Hypnotic” in the state — the incentives boost has the potential to be “game-changing” for the state’s film future. “In the last decade and a half, the Texas industry as a whole hasn’t grown as much as it could have,” Guerrero says. “The inflection point is now: this year, this session, this funding.
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