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...will have to grapple with when the new funding law kicks in this fall. The commission will review movie scripts and game design plans before approving up to a 5% rebate of a film's Texas-based costs (up to a maximum of $2 million) or a $250,000 grant for a game design project; the project must have 80% of its work done within the state, and the money that will only be rewarded after it is completed. "We are going to look at the total film, not just one scene," Hudgins said. "We are going...
...over content can be a slippery slope, but passage of an incentive bill was critical to the Texas film industry. "No one is saying you can't shoot a movie in Texas that makes Texas look bad. All we are saying is you are not going to get a grant," Sims said. And regardless of content, all filmmakers will be able to avail themselves of the state's generous sales tax exemption on production costs...
...said. "The state does not need to be supporting pornography. If it clearly besmirched the state, the public would be outraged that it was funded with Texas dollars." What is more important to Garriott is the acknowledgment of the growing importance of his industry, even if a $250,000 grant won't pay for too much in a business where a new game can cost more than $10 million to develop...
...78th most searched-for term, "free money." (Meanwhile, "free cash" is in the 1581st position.) I entered the query into Google to see if perhaps I had been missing out. The search results are dominated by a number of listings for sites that help you find federal grant money (not free-those are my tax dollars at work), sponsored listings for different loan products (definitely not free) and advertisements for services that help you find unclaimed funds...
...well aware of the outside interest in this decision, and the many ways in which the university community was ‘lobbied’ both to grant and deny tenure,” Holtschneider wrote in his June 8 letter to Finkelstein. “Examining the written record, I am satisfied that the faculty review process maintained its independence from this unwelcome attention...