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TAX INCENTIVES BOOST NY FILMING
April 21, 2009Variety - Pat Kaufman is breathing a sigh of relief. The woman who heads of the New York Governor’s Office of Motion Picture and Television Development is already seeing dramatic results from the state’s recent renewal of its tax incentive program for filming, with $350 million added to the coffers after the state blew through its $480 million cap – which was supposed to last five years — in less than 10 months.
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FILM TAX CREDIT & THE CITY
April 6, 2009Daily News – The state has pumped $350million into the budget to resupply a successful tax credit for film and TV production – but the cash influx has gotten mixed reviews from the industry. Despite having to address a $16.2 billion budget gap, Gov. Paterson and legislative leaders found the cash to re-up the tax credits, which have spawned $2.5 billion in new business since they hit the books in 2005.
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N.Y. FILM, TV INDUSTRY MAKING TAX CREDIT APPEAL
March 9, 2009The Hollywood Reporter - Members of the New York film and TV sector are planning to raise further awareness and lock up lawmaker support in Albany on Wednesday for new funding for the state’s production tax credits. Unions, such as the Teamsters, along with the NY Production Alliance and its members will press for inclusion of funds in the state budget outlines that are expected from the State Assembly and Senate any time now.
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EIN FILMSTUDIO IST WIE EIN HOTEL
August 11, 2008Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – Diskretion gehort fur Douglas Steiner zum Beruf, Andernfalls wurde er mit Superstars wie Madonna nicht ins Geschaft kommen. Die Sangerin ist an diesem Nachmittag in den Steiner Filmstudios im New Yorker Stadtteil Brooklyn und probt fur ihre Welttournee, die in ein paar Wochen in Cardiff beginnen wird.
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STILL RUNNING…
August 8, 2008Regional: Film & Video – Regional Film & Video’s US Correspondent, Heather-Annie McCalden talks to Douglas C. Steiner, Chairman of Steiner Studios, a production facility in Brooklyn, New York, in regards to a recent tax break programme created by the State of New York.
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BROOKLYN STUDIO LARGER THAN REAL LIFE
July 5, 2007The New York Post - Brooklyn’s Steiner Studios, largest soundstage in the East, is 15 acres, 310,000 square feet. Five soundstages geared to state-of-the-art digital film and hi-def TV. One stage, with its 200 tons of air conditioning, is larger than Elmira – 27,000 square feet, 45 high, enough to build several stories for any script needing an apartment building. Plus there’s support space – dressing rooms, makeup rooms, hairdressing rooms, wardrobe rooms, prop lockups, construction sites, screening rooms, food services, lighting equipment, furniture storage, on-site parking for 1,000 cars.
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A MOVIE STUDIO GROWS IN BROOKLYN
July 5, 2007BusinessWeek – If it weren’t for the painted backdrops of Midtown and downtown
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Manhattan, a visitor could almost mistake the sleek, modern apartment
and the richly appointed law offices for the real thing. The authenticlooking sets, tucked inside Stages Two and Four at Steiner Studios, are
being used to film the new F/X legal drama Damages, staring Glenn
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BROOKLYN STUDIO FILMS A BIG HIT
March 13, 2006Crain’s New York – Before Steiner Studios unveiled its $128 million complex in the Brooklyn Navy Yard a little over a year ago, Ernie Rodriguez operated a tiny two-man locksmith shop in Park Slope. Now, Mr. Rodriguez is at Steiner every week, changing all the locks and access codes every time a production comes in.
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NEXT SUBWAY STOP HOLLYWOOD
January 8, 2006The New York Times – The largest room at Steiner Studios, the year-old moviemaking compound at the Brooklyn Navy Yard between Williamsburg and Fort Greene, is 27,000 square feet, with ceilings more than 45 feet high. Inside this mammoth space last Wednesday, as part of the set for a movie called ”Across the Universe,” were a few cramped rooms straight out of an artsy 1960′s East Village tenement building, authentic down to the scuffs on the wood floors.
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NY EAGER TO PLAY LEAD ROLE IN TV-FILM INDUSTRY
July 10, 2005The Los Angeles Times - The Brooklyn Navy Yard has seen its share of big productions in the last two centuries. In 1862, the armored gunboat Monitor was fitted with state-of-the-art iron cladding here that helped it fend off a Confederate war vessel during a pivotal Civil War battle. The battleship Maine was built in the yard, a few years before the Spanish sunk it in Havana Harbor in 1898. During World War II, the site teemed with more than 71,000 workers, many of whom helped construct the battleships Arizona and Missouri.
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LIGHTS, CAMERA, BROOKLYN!
June 8, 2005The New York Times - Hollywood on the Hudson, it is not. In truth, the new $118 million Steiner Studios overlooks the East River. But the movie factory’s growing presence on the Brooklyn waterfront is starting to produce ripples far beyond that borough.The 280,000-square-foot studio with its five stages will not even be finished until the winter. But already there is a measure of pride in blasé, forget-about-it Brooklyn, which, despite its rocketing condo prices and feisty, Manhattan-is-Satan esprit, still smarts from being relegated to a laugh line in so many Hollywood movies.
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SPRINGTIME FOR BROOKS IN BROOKLYN
October 8, 2004Screen International – Even in 1968, the fact that Mel Brooks was able to shoot The Producers for under a million dollars in locations around New York City raised eyebrows in Hollywood. So much so that a newspaper report quoted an unnamed producer as saying it was not kosher to make a successful film for so little money.
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STEINER STUDIOS TO DEBUT WITH MEL BROOKS’ “PRODUCERS” REMAKE
October 1, 2004Brooklyn Daily Eagle - A press conference at the almost-completed Steiner Studios here yesterday heralded a double blessing. The first was the announcement of the first project at the 280,000-square-foot facility a remake of the Mel Brooks’ 1968 classic ‘The Producers,’ using the songs from Brooks’ recent hit Broadway play.
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HOLLYWOOD ‘PRODUCERS’ PICK APPLE
September 29, 2004The New York Post - The movie version of “The Producers,” a quintessential New York comedy, will be filmed in the Big Apple instead of Canada, thanks to special tax incentives offered by the state and city, jubilant officials announced yesterday. ”I’m going to shoot this picture just for the tax benefits,” joked Mel Brooks at a press conference with Gov. Pataki, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Mayor Bloomberg in the new Steiner Studios at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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BIG APPLE IS READY FOR ITS CLOSE-UPS
September 29, 2004The Los Angeles Times - More than five years after former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani announced plans to build a “Hollywood-style” studio at the old Brooklyn Navy Yard, a new city administration has declared the site ready for a major movie project: a big-screen version of Mel Brooks’ hit musical, “The Producers.”
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BROOKS GETS ‘PRODUCERS’ CREDIT; PIC STAYS IN NY
September 29, 2004The Hollywood Reporter - Mel Brooks said Tuesday that his movie musical “The Producers” will begin filming in February at a new studio in Brooklyn because of a new tax credit designed to bring more movies to New York. The Universal Pictures film stars Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in the roles they played on Broadway; Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell co-star. It’s scheduled for release at Christmas 2005.
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GOV STEPS ON BROOKS’ LAFF LINES
September 29, 2004Daily News - Mel Brooks had just finished telling a joke about three rabbis and a Cadillac when a functionary asked him to join Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Pataki. ”Okay, the governor, the mayor!” Brooks said. “Big-time!” Brooks started across the new movie studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yard where he will be shooting a musical remake of “The Producers.” The story concerns Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, who sell 1,000% of a Broadway show about Hitler with the assumption it is sure to flop.
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BROOKS HELPING MOVIE BIZ TO BLOOM
September 29, 2004Daily News - Bialystock and Bloom are moving from Broadway to Brooklyn. Declaring “there is nothing like New York,” Mel Brooks announced yesterday he will film “The Producers: The Movie Musical” at the new Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The legendary funnyman looked on yesterday as Gov. Pataki signed into law the Empire State Film Production Credit Program, which gives a 10% tax credit on production costs for movies and TV shows that do most of their filming on New York sound stages.
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BROOKS TO FILM IN BROOKLYN – IT’S BIALYSTOCK AND BLOOMBERG
September 29, 2004Newsday - Bialystock & Bloom is relocating to Brooklyn. Mel Brooks will shoot his remake of “The Producers” in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, not far from the Williamsburg neighborhood where he grew up as Melvin Kaminsky. ”My heart leaps with joy to know now that we are going to film right on these streets, the streets that I grew up on,” Brooks said during a news conference yesterday at the newly opened Steiner Studios.
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PRODUCERS PICK DOCKS AT NAVY YARD
September 29, 2004Variety - New York’s Steiner Studios — the brand-new site at the Brooklyn Navy Yard – said Tuesday that Mel Brooks’ “The Producers: The Movie Musical” will be its first project as New York state and city announced a package of tax incentives to lure production to Gotham. A sea of some 300 pols and press gathered at the Navy Yard as Brooks, a Brooklyn son, trashed Toronto’s bagels as “mushy” and imitated a Yugoslavian extra trying to say “closing time.”
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