West Michigan Goes Hollywood

The enactment of the Michigan legislation to offer rebates and aggressive

tax incentives to movie production companies in Michigan has prompted Tictock

Studios,based in Holland, Michigan, to announce plans to operate a financing and

production company with the ability to invest up to $20 million per project with

most films comingin under $10 million. Their first film will be “Tug,” which

qualifies for the incentive programs and is set for production in early

summer.

Tictock, which bills itself as the first Michigan-based studio, has acquired the

ReddiWhipfactory in Holland and plans to renovate the 76,000-square-foot

facility with private money and some state credits.

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Holland based TicTock Studios, has hired Jeffrey Stott, a well known Hollywood

producer to help implement the job training that will turn the unemployed in

Michigan into behind the scenes technical jobs in the movie and film industry.

The Michigan legislators have passed and Governor Granholm has signed into

law a bill with the most aggressive incentives to date to bring film crews to

Michigan to make their movies in the future. This strategy has worked for other

states, like Louisiana and New Mexico. TicTock Studios will take online

resumes if you would like to be in the movies behind the scenes.

They are looking for people with trades backgrounds, such as electricians,

painters, & set technicians. There is also a job training program is in conjunction

with Grand Rapids Community College in Grand Rapids, MI that started its initial

class

on April 7th.

You might be seeing a lot of Michigan sunsets in the movies soon!

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