Amazon MGM Studios series ‘Fallout’ to relocate to California from New York for tax credit
LA TimesIn a coup for California’s film industry, the Amazon MGM Studios series “Fallout” will relocate filming to the Golden State from New York after receiving a tax credit. “We are thrilled to bring ‘Fallout’ back to its California roots,” Colleen Bell, executive director of the California Film Commission, said in a statement. “Fallout,” in particular, was a win for the state film commission, as it’s expected to contribute about $153 million in qualified expenditures and employ about 170 cast and crew, making it one of the relocating projects with the biggest total qualified expenditures in the film and television tax credit program’s history, the commission said. Odyssey” starring Joshua Jackson and “Grotesquerie” starring Niecy Nash, as well as CBS Studios’ “NCIS: Origins.” Film and TV production has been slow to return in California after last year’s writers’ and actors’ strikes.