Hollywood is warm, near the ocean, always sunny. Michigan is hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and surrounded by lakes. Both, however, have roles in the movie industry. Detroit still has a ways to go to catch up to Hollywood, but all signs, so far, are pointing up.
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Just look at this
list compiled by the Michigan Film Office as evidence: before 2008, Michigan averaged about five feature films per year. In 2008, there were 31; and in 2009, 35.
In
anticipation of booming business opportunities, scores of Michigan
entrepreneurs announced they would be breaking ground on massive new
film studios (See:
Unity Studios in Allen Park,
Raleigh Studios in Pontiac,
Hangar42 in Grand Rapids) and that these studios would in turn provide massive amounts of new jobs for the cash-strapped Mitten State.
So far, the future looks bright for Michigan's film industry. Recently, Detroit was number eight on
Movie Maker magazine's list of 10 best cities in which to be an independent movie maker.
Read the entire article
here.
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