After the discussions and commentary about the Nevada Legislature’s Special Session and the controversy around the AB5 Film Bill, formerly AB238, we decided to update our Universal Film Tax Credit Bill! The innovations and provisions in our initial Universal Film Tax Credit Bill still apply to AB5 as our bill: What we have added is… Read more

With the announcement by Governor Joe Lombardo that there will be a Special Session for the Nevada Legislature in Fall 2025 that may revisit the Film Tax Credit Program, a whirlwind of activity has taken place amongst the community! The local unions have been the most active and have rallied together to establish a new… Read more

Since our last post we have been busy on a number of fronts with some hopefully majorly fantastic news to come soon! Meanwhile, a lot of things have been moving fast in the industry and the rest of the world so we wanted to do an update and share some of our thoughts. AI Takeover… Read more

The outcome of the 83rd Nevada Legislative Session ended up being the complete failure of Nevada’s development into a new central film and media production hub as both the SB220 and AB238 Film Tax Credit Bills failed to pass. What Happened? As readers of this development blog would know, despite having such complete access and… Read more

As we are moving closer to the June 2nd close of the 83rd Nevada Legislative Session, neither of the film tax incentive bills, AB238 or SB220, have passed. However, both are declared exempt from this deadline in order to be voted for outside of the session dates if they don’t pass in time. This gives… Read more

As stated in our previous blog entry, we have returned to using Grok AI with the AB238 and SB220 Film Tax Incentive bills in order to produce the most efficient and focused versions to benefit all parties involved in Nevada’s development into a new film and media production hub. The result has been a potential… Read more

With the recent hearing for the Assembly Bill 238 Nevada Film Tax Incentive bill by Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., and Howard Hughes Holdings, the activity for Nevada’s future as a film and media hub had a rather quiet week! On Friday, March 7th, the Nevada Film Office released an article that essentially summarized the journey… Read more

Today got off to a surprising start with the announcement that Warner Bros. has officially rekindled their partnership with Sony towards building a film studio in Las Vegas! In this case it is for the Summerlin Studios development and leaving behind the Nevada Studios Media Campus project with the University of Nevada Las Vegas. This… Read more

So soon after our review of the latest draft of the Nevada AB238 Film Tax Incentive bill by Sony Pictures, we now have the announcement today of the SB220 bill by Warner Bros. and UNLV! The bills are surprisingly similar in their text, possibly basing both off of the same original template when they were… Read more

A new draft of the Nevada AB238 bill by Sony Pictures and Howard Hughes Properties has been posted in an official form and we have reviewed it for any changes and amendments. From what we can see, a number of questions have been cleared up simply by the bill offering more specifics and clarifications. While… Read more