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Film industry poised to have its best year in North Carolina Ashlea Kosikowski © Provided by Wilmington WECT “This will go down as one of our best, if not the best years of record, in terms of spending by productions in the state,” said Guy Gaster of the NC Film Office during a virtual meeting of the Governor’s Advisory Council for NC Film/TV/Streaming Tuesday. (Source: WECT) WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Cameras are rolling on TV and movie sets across North Carolina, leading to what is expected to be the biggest year for the film industry in North Carolina history.

By Jenny Callison, posted Mar 11, 2021 The full-throttle film production happening in Wilmington at present is estimated to total about $114.5 million in local spending for goods and services, according to the N.C. Dept. of Commerce. In return, the four projects involved will receive nearly $28.4 million in rebates from the state’s film incentive fund.   This healthy bottom line reflects the boom in film activity that started here in the early fall of 2020 and continues, even as one project has wrapped, the other three wind down, and a new one is in pre-production at EUE/...

WCCB Charlotte's CW March 6, 2021 CHARLOTTE — Lights, camera, Charlotte!  The Queen City and North Carolina are in the spotlight once again by the movie industry. The state is now seeing an uptick in the number of production companies looking to shoot films right here in our area.  The move comes after North Carolina experienced a dramatic slump in 2015.  The year prior, the state ended incentives that lured movie production companies here. North Carolina replaced those tax incentives with grants which topped out at 10 million dollars.  In 2019, the state began to rebound, and once agai...