Amazon’s ‘Hunters’ and Disney + ‘The Right Stuff’ Get California Tax Credits – Deadline

As TV production continues to increase in Hollywood and coronavirus cases increase in America, Hunters and Good things are heading West with generous tax credits from the State of California.

Amazon Prime’s Pursuit of the Nazis drama series and the latest adaptation of Disney + ‘s Tom Wolfe space race novel are the 21st and 22nd shows to relocate to the Golden State since the program run by the California Film Commission launched. increased to $ 330 million per year in 2014.

In fact, after the $ 24.7 million allocated to Showtime, now canceled Penny Dreadful: City of Angels in 2018, the $ 18.8 million awarded for the second season of Hunters, formerly based in New York, is to date the second TV series relocation tax credit.

With the third season of Lucifer having received $ 16.8 million, the Good things received $ 13.7 million to move from Florida to California. This makes the NASA Series Executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio the fourth most awarded moving show ever under the CFC program.

Amazon renewed Hunters in August after finishing its first season with the unveiling and death of Al Pacino’s character and the revelation of a certain dictator still living in South America.

On the other hand, despite the fairly large sum of the state of California, Disney + has not yet given Good things the green light for the take-off of a second season. Having debuted on the streamer on October 9, the show developed by Mark Lafferty hasn’t really exploded with subscribers, I hear.

Only open to relocation and recurring series, aka inherited, the last CFC application period took place from September 28 to 30 for the first category and from October 5 to 7 for the second. The next seasons of It’s us, Westworld, Good girls and Star Trek Picard were also among the shared shows in the last allocation.

All of this means that, with 88 days of filming planned in and around San Diego, Disney + may have hedged its bets to see if they received the tax incentives before bringing them back. Good things. Conversely, tax incentives have in the past gone to projects that never came to fruition, a fact all the more acute by the potential restrictions due to COVID-19. If a project does not materialize, the award rolls over to the next upcoming allocation period.

Assuming everything is ready for the second two seasons of Hunters and Good things, the Amazon series is estimated by the CFC to generate $ 75.2 million in eligible expenses, while the Disney + show will generate $ 51.8 million in salaries, suppliers, etc. These expectations do not take into account expenses above the line and above that are not eligible for a tax credit.

With employment, the real goal of version 3.0 of the incentive program, Hunters Season 2 has 107 days of filming in California. Even with coronavirus safety protocols in place, production plans to hire 3,852 extras, 267 cast members and a crew of 160. Good things Season 2 aims to hire 2,204 long distance players, 173 cast members and a squad of 214.

If you’re marking your calendars, note that the next small screen tax credit application period is set for March 15-22, 2021. As the COVID-19 crisis sees most theaters across the country shut down, the next application period for large screen projects are scheduled from January 25 to February 1.