'The Avengers' films in downtown Cleveland There’s a bill before the Ohio General Assembly poised to more than double the Motion Picture Tax Credit, lifting the benefit from $40 million per fiscal year to $100 million. The goal is to expand the state’s budding film industry by attracting more film, television and theater production. The tax credit played a pivotal role in the state landing bigger budget films, like The Avengers , Alex Cross , and Captain America: Winter Soldier . In recent years, however, states with larger tax incentives have lured those productions away. Georgia, for example, offers a 20 percent tax credit for companies that spend $500,000 or more on production and post-production, throwing in another 10 percent if the film includes the state’s logo in its end credits. Broderick Johnson, producer of The Blind Side , referred to the credit as “one of the best, if not the best, in the country,” in an interview with Variety . There appears to be no cap,
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