With seven features currently in production, seven more upcoming and 16 films wrapped this year, the Michigan Film Office expects 2010 to be a booming film production year.
“We are on track to hit at least $300 million in 2010 and should definitely beat last year,” which racked up $224 million from films and TV, said Ken Droz, MFO spokesman.
The film office has reviewed 83 applications for the state’s 42% incentives for 2010 production in the Detroit area and West Michigan.
Of these, the seven mostly big-budgets features are currently filming has turned the Detroit area into a veritable Hollywood: “Machine Gun Preacher” (Gerard Butler), “Real Steel” (Hugh Jackman), “Return to the Hiding Place” (John Rhys-Davies), “Home Run Derby” (Barry Bostwick), “LOL, Lots of Laughs” (Demi Moore, Miley Cyrus) “30 Minutes or Less” (Jesse Eisenberg) and “Harold and Kumar 3” (John Cho, Kal Penn).
Coming up are seven more features: “The Double,” “Hostel 3,” “Auteur Theory,” “Street Kings 2,” “Vamps,” “Project Z” and “Salvation Boulevard,” which are in development or preproduction.
