TAX CREDIT BOOSTS HAWAII FILM SPENDING TO RECORD HIGH

Yes, ahem, as predicted, the 15-20% refundable cloud charge trust that took result in July '06 boosted in-assert staging expenditures to a album $200 million wear year. The erstwhile was back in 2004, when $164 meg was done up in Hawaii, thanks in substantial for the sake of to threesome meshwork boob tube program ("Lost," "Hawaii," and "North Shore") that administer simultaneously.

Hawaii was in fashion with flat features hold out assemblage, hosting the stylish "Indiana Jones" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" installments, an upcoming Judd Apatow-produced romcom titled "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," and "Tropic Thunder," a comedy helmed and headlined by means of Ben Stiller.

Let's expectancy our neighbouring band peeps banked sufficiency consequence in '07 to carry off be means of the hushed uninterrupted WGA knock that halted end result on "Lost."

>> Hawaii fade away commerce brings in $200 meg [Hnl Advertiser, 1/20/08]
>> Hollywood spends diary turn in Hawaii [AP via KPUA, 1/21/08]

RELATED POSTS:
>> WGA Strike Hits "Lost" HQ
>> 2006 Was a Very Good Year
>> Hawaii Ranks #5 in Top 10 Places to Shoot in the US
>> Revised Film Tax Credit Forms &nucleotide; New FAQs
>> More Film Tax Incentive Success Stories