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Darling No More: Hollywood Flees Louisiana for Sweeter Taxes
Source:
abcnews.go.com
- Jul 5, 2016
It's the middle of a recent work day inside a Hollywood-style movie studio in downtown New Orleans, and Trey Burvant turns off the lights on an empty Stage 1.
He heads over to stages 2 and 3, and they're empty, too.
"Not much going on," Burvant says inside Second Line Stages studio. "Nothing going on."
He's a Louisiana-raised actor and producer who came back from the East Coast when the movie industry started to take off a decade ago in his home state, thanks to generous tax breaks for movie makers.
But now the slick $32 million state-of-the-art studio Burvant runs — with its air conditioning turned off, its stages dark and its empty parking lot — is a forlorn window into the volatile business of America's race to attract movie makers with tax breaks.
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