Two new TV shows are going to help boost the North Carolina film industry.
North Carolina’s film industry used to be booming with lights, cameras, and actors posted up on every corner of Wilmington, North Carolina. But, last year the North Carolina General Assembly agreed to changing the state’s film and TV tax credit and turning it into a $10 million grant program, forcing many filmmakers to travel to surrounding areas with a larger tax break. In fact, many crew members, actors, and producers were forced to move to travel after the lack of job opportunities in North Carolina.
However, it looks as though things are going to change. Two new TV series are scheduled to begin production in Wilmington, North Carolina and are expected to add $55 million into the local economy during the first half of 2016, according to the Vice President of EUE/Screen Gems Studios, Bill Vassar in Wilmington, North Carolina.
TNT’s hit TV series Good Behavior was announced to return to Wilmington, North Carolina late last year. Good Behavior is written by Crouch and Chad Hodge and tells the story of Letty Dobesh (Dockery), a thief and a con artist whose life is always one wrong turn, one bad decision from implosion. And the History Channel announced earlier this week that they had chosen Wilmington as the location for the production of an eight-episode first season of Six, an action drama about Navy Seal Team Six. Pre-production is expected to start this Monday, according to reports.
According to the Wilmington Biz, around 400 people will be hired to work on these TV shows.
From Wilmington Biz:
After completing local production of its pilot in October, for which it qualified for up to $1.25 million in incentives money from the state, Good Behavior dismantled its sets and stored them at EUE/Screen Gems, but they will need to be reassembled and possibly additional sets built, Griffin said.
Producers for Six had been in talks with EUE/Screen Gems for several months in 2015 before confirming earlier this week that the project was a go. Vassar said that EUE/Screen Gems’ undeveloped property adjacent to the studios was attractive to Six producers.
