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Ontario’s Film Industry Grows With Amazon MGM, Netflix Opening Stages
Ontario's film industry is growing thanks to Amazon MGM, Netflix opening facilities.
The industry is fickle under the best of circumstances, and if you’re looking to build a soundstage complex in a region that uses its tax incentive to attract projects, there’s always the possibility that politicians will repeal it in the next legislative session, effectively shutting down your studio. It will give them exclusive use of Pinewood’s five new soundstages in the city’s Port Lands section, minutes from downtown, along with workshops and office space, totaling approximately 160,000 square feet. “A lot of projects just come to the province for just post and visual effects work,” says Cutler.That’s because Ontario offers an 18% refundable tax credit to Ontario-based Canadian and foreign-controlled corporations for qualifying labor expenditures for digital animation and VFXPixomondo already has an ongoing relationship with Paramount+ doing VFX for their Toronto-based series “Star Trek: Discovery.” On its fourth season, which premiered in 2021, they began creating virtual CGI sets for the series using a 270-degree, 70-foot x 30-foot horseshoe-shaped LED volume, created in partnership with Toronto-based studio operator William F. White Intl.
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