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Fed 181 Extended For One Year, almost…

Entertainment Partners sent out a post that our Senate approved legislation that would retroactively extend for one year the special expensing rules for certain film and television productions under section 181. The bill now must be reconciled with House-passed legislation before a final bill can be sent to the White House. The House legislation also includes a one-year extension of this provision.

Good news.  Anything that can be done to help investors in independent film should be encouraged.  They create jobs in a time we really need them.

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Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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