The awards, announced Dec. 29, are expected to generate $562 million in economic activity, including $337 million in qualified spending and hiring for 4,837 cast and crew members
The California Film Commission has selected 28 film projects for tax credits in the latest round of the state’s expanded Film & Television Tax Credit Program, including an untitled project from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee and a biopic produced by Snoop Dogg.
The awards, announced Dec. 29, are expected to generate $562 million in economic activity, including $337 million in qualified spending and hiring for 4,837 cast and crew members plus 22,614 background performers over 831 shooting days.
Seventeen projects will film partly outside the Los Angeles area, with 286 days in locations including Alameda, Contra Costa, San Bernardino, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Sonoma counties, as well as Joshua Tree, Palm Springs, San Luis Obispo and Temecula. Five independent films will shoot entirely outside the 30-mile Los Angeles zone.
Lee’s “Gold Mountain,” about the California Gold Rush, plans 50 filming days in Sacramento County.
Other projects include “Business Women” from Twentieth Century Fox, an untitled film produced by Glen Powell for Sony, and “Guerrero,” an independent film directed by Gina Rodriguez.
The round brings the expanded program’s total since July 2025 to $4.17 billion in projected economic activity and more than 25,000 jobs.
The program, doubled to $750 million annually earlier in 2025, offers tax credits to encourage in-state production. Since 2009, it has generated over $30.6 billion in economic activity statewide.
