Documentary explores collapse of visual effects company that worked on ‘Life of Pi’ - During the Academy Awards on Sunday, visual effects artists again will march to draw attention to their plight. They hope to end the tax rebates and others subsidies — both foreign and in U.S. states like Georgia — that have turned the business into a “pathetic race to the bottom,” said Rand, a Calabasas resident who used to live in Manhattan Beach.
Oscars 2014: Why Are Special Effects Wizards Planning to Protest at the Ceremony? - The visual-effects industry wants to keep jobs in the U.S. - Video - the entire documentary.
After Gravity, is the British film industry rocketing or crashing to Earth? - Visual effects firm Framestore is behind the acclaimed space movie, but is UK film making a giant leap, or is funding falling? - Behind all these dramas is the distinctly unstarry HM Revenue and Customs. Film tax relief, introduced in 2007 and extended to blockbuster TV and animation last April, has been heralded by the industry as a game changer. It was worth £202m to film studios in the last financial year; £227m to television companies. According to consultancy Oxford Economics, these subsidies mean it is now 38% cheaper to shoot a film in the UK than the US – while the generosity of the UK's regime has prompted gripes from the LA film world.
Oscar night no gala for film, TV workers hit by runaway production - The Oscar nominees themselves are stark evidence of this so-called runaway production. Among the nine best picture contenders, only Spike Jonze's "Her" was filmed mainly in California ... Even major features set in California are often filmed elsewhere. The Google Inc.-themed comedy "Internship" was filmed mainly in Georgia instead of Silicon Valley. The Dwayne Johnson disaster movie "San Andreas," about a massive earthquake that strikes California, is set to film in Australia to take advantage of that country's tax credits.
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