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Match 1: Hernan "Hollywood" Gatpandan (red) versus Jonathan "The Hawaiian Punch" Nguyen (blue...
...Which could cue a new Hollywood hybrid: Wolverine: The Musical, anyone...
...that you'd notice that the façade over Gallagher's right shoulder is in fact the 100-year-old Ford Building in downtown Detroit. This scene, along with every other from the legal drama Betty Anne Waters, starring Hilary Swank, is being filmed in Michigan, the new Hollywood of the Midwest...
Other states, including New Mexico and Louisiana, have long wooed producers with tax incentives. And for a few years, it seemed as if every "New York" movie was filmed in either Vancouver or Toronto. But the Canadian exchange rate doesn't favor Hollywood anymore, and Michigan's tax rebate of up to 42% for productions that hire locally is the most generous in the country. Nearly 70 movies - including Clint Eastwood's 2008 hit Gran Torino - have been shot or been scheduled to be filmed here since the state passed its tax breaks last April. In 2007 film crews spent...
...screenwriter who teaches in the University of Michigan's Film and Video Studies Program. He grew tired of watching his students decamp for New York City and Los Angeles on graduation. The Michigan Film Commission, of which Burnstein is a member, had been "looking into how to attract Hollywood," he says. "But this wasn't just about bringing money into the state. It was a matter of the taxpayers we were already losing." Tena Constas is one of those prodigal Michiganders, a location scout for Betty Anne Waters who recently moved back after five years in Chicago...