Bringing Hollywood to Houston: Texas actors aiming to reclaim film industry prominence

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State lawmakers in Texas are on the cusp of passing a groundbreaking bill that could transform the Lone Star State into a bustling hub for film production.

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"Texas used to have a great incentive program that brought hundreds of great movies and shows…" Quaid says in a PSA about the issue and Billy Bob Thornton adds "and thousands of jobs to hard-working folks." Then Woody Harrelson finishes the sentence "…and hundreds of millions of dollars to the Lone Star State."

"If the incentive comes back, I think you’re going to have a lot of those people who are going to be moving back to Texas, or be able to stay home with their families and their kids and that’s thousands of people," Quaid explains. "Production goes where the money flows. If you have a state like Georgia or Louisiana, New Mexico or like we joke about even Oklahoma has a stronger incentive than Texas," says Independent Filmmaker and Actor Jeremy John Wells.

"In Stephenville yeah," Quaid says. Wells added, "That’s a little, tiny town. This beautiful, quaint little town and you had millions of dollars injected into the local economy to make that series happen there, and that money stays there with the citizens of that town. It’s endless how it expands the economy." Quaid jumped in saying, "They got like $4-million in a week and a half.

 

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