New York Times
“Shooting day for night is one thing. Shreveport for Santa Monica is quite another,” the New York Times’ Michael Ciphely writes. “Taxpayer-supported subsidies have steadily drawn film work from Los Angeles to states like Louisiana, Michigan and New Mexico.” Read more at the above link about the effect of these economic incentives, which are “reversing a dynamic under which Hollywood once used Southern California locations for stories set everywhere else.”