"Plymouth studios won't get $50m in state bond funds" by Christine Legere, Globe Correspondent | June 11, 2009
PLYMOUTH - Plymouth Rock Studios will not get an expected $50 million in state bond money to build the access road to its multimillion-dollar movie studio.
Awww, too bad!!!
Related: Hollywood S***s on Massachusetts
Also see: What Is Wrong With Hollywood
Can you tell I DON'T WANT THEM HERE?
A state spokeswoman said the company's application was denied because the project will not produce enough in tax revenue to cover the bond payments under the new infrastructure investment incentive program known as I-Cubed.
Translation: Taxpayers would have been subsidizing Hollywood!
Plymouth Rock officials, however, plan to forge ahead with private money that has been committed to the project....
AS IT SHOULD BE!!!
Plymouth Rock and the town's legislative delegation said they were told the state denied the bond money because the film industry might be getting too large a slice of the state-aid pie.
Yeah, I'D SAY! I think it adds up to about $1 BILLION bucks all told!!
WTF are MOVIE STUDIOS getting STATE AID for ANYWAY when we are CLOSING SCHOOLS?
"I was told that because of the tax-credit avenues available to film production, the I-Cubed money was not allowed to go to this," said Plymouth Rock's chief financial officer, Joe DiLorenzo, who spoke to the state's undersecretary of administration and finance, Jay Gonzales, yesterday. He said Gonzales promised that state officials would look for other ways to support the project....
Yeah, they will GET HOLLYWOOD TAXPAYER LOOT SOMEHOW!!!
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Meanwhile, you get THIS, Bay State taxpayers!
Of course, Hollywood is CRYING POVERTY!
LOS ANGELES - Every day, visitors from around the world flock to the hot sites of Hollywood, the historic birthplace of America's entertainment industry. But this year, crowds are smaller, tourist spending is down, and merchants are nervous....
The slumping economy has taken some of the sparkle off Tinseltown....
--more--"Really? NOT what I HEARD!
FLASHBACK:
"Americans flock to movies, seeking silver-screen lining; Box office sales surge in midst of recession" by Michael Cieply and Brooks Barnes, New York Times | March 1, 2009
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood could get used to this recession thing.
While much of the economy is teetering between bust and bailout, the movie industry has been startled by a box-office surge that has little precedent in the modern era. Suddenly it seems as if everyone is going to the movies, with ticket sales this year up 17.5 percent, to $1.7 billion, according to Media by Numbers, a box-office tracking company.
And yet they are getting TAX BREAKS and TAX GIVEAWAYS from my state.
See: Making Movies in Massachusetts
And it is not just because ticket prices are higher. Attendance has also jumped, by nearly 16 percent. If that pace continues through the year, it would amount to the biggest box-office surge in at least two decades.
Not by me. I haven't been to the movies in two years. The last good movie I saw was Sicko, and considering the dissing my favorite film took (probably because he's not Jewish), I will never pay for a ticket to a movie ever again.
Americans, for the moment, just want to hide in a very dark place, said Martin Kaplan, the director of the Norman Lear Center for the study of entertainment and society at the University of Southern California.
Yeah, HIDE in the DARK away from the LIGHT and TRUTH, America! I wish I could say that was the exception; however, it is the rule around here.
"It's not rocket science," he said. "People want to forget their troubles, and they want to be with other people."
In the DARK where you CAN'T TALK to anyone and are a SPECTATOR!
Americans, you are pathetic!!!!
You know, if I'm going to be in the dark with another person, I'd rather be having sex -- not watching a movie!
Helping feed the surge is the mix of movies, which have been more audience-friendly in recent months as the studios have tried to adjust after the lackluster sales of more somber and serious films.
Translation: Americans like crap.
As she stood in line at the 18-screen Bridge theater complex here on Thursday to buy weekend tickets for "Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience," Angel Hernandez was not thinking much about escaping reality. Instead, Hernandez, a Los Angeles parking lot attendant and mother of four young girls, was focused on one very specific reality: her wallet.
Even with the movie carrying a premium price of $15 because of its 3-D effects - children's tickets typically run $9 at the Bridge - Hernandez saw the experience as a bargain.
"Spending hundreds of dollars to take them to Disneyland is ridiculous right now," she said. "For $60 and some candy money I can still be a good mom and give them a little fun."
Oh, THAT'S WHAT being a GOOD MOM is, huh? Shoveling money at Holywood and CANDY into the KIDS!!!!
I've been typing it all day, readers, and I've had it. I'm not buying their stink-shit agenda-pushing paper tomorrow.
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The film industry appears to have had a hand in its recent good luck. Over the last year or two, studios have released movies that are less depressing than what came before. After poor results for a spate of serious dramas built around the Middle East ("The Kingdom," "Lions for Lambs," "Rendition"), Hollywood got back to comedies like "Paul Blart: Mall Cop," a review-proof lark about an overstuffed security guard.
Translation: Americans DON'T LIKE WARS, especially when we have been LIED TO ABOUT THEM!!!!!!!!!! And we don't like STINK ELITE, AGENDA-PUSHING CRITICS, either!
"A bunch of movies have come along that don't make you think too much," said Marc Abraham, a producer whose next film is a remake of "The Thing."
That's ALREADY BEEN DONE!! So what, we get a THIRD REMAKE NOW?
Don't you guys have any NEW IDEAS out there?
Certainly exhibitors are looking for a profit lift in the downturn. A new report from Global Media Intelligence on Friday predicted that the fortunes of movie theater operators like
I want the $300 milion in taxpayer hand-outs back.
Cinematic quality has little to do with it. The recent crop of Oscar nominees has fared poorly, for the most part, at the box office. Lighter fare has drawn the crowds....
Or maybe we just don't like what elite shitters like, huh?
"Watchmen," a dark superhero film, opens March 6 and is expected to do megawatt business. Movie theaters are adding 3 a.m. screenings for "Watchmen" next week, and advance sales.... have been strong.
That's nice. An APOCALYPSE FILM is going to be PROMOTED! Just the type of mindset the masses need.
So WHEN is the FALSE-FLAG TERROR ATTACK coming, Jewwood?
So WhyTF does Hollywood need TAXPAYERS to pay for THEIR ROAD, 'eh?
