BeyondUnreal
25 Apr 2009, 22:53
<p>Well, we all know the global economy's sucked pretty bad since September of last year or so, and the latest in the long list of casualties is the Bioshock movie, <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/25/bioshock-movie-gets-budget-cut-in-a-holding-pattern/">which got its budget cut and is now put on the back burner</a>. Or else they just want a tax write-off because America is too expensive to film in - you decide!</p>
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<p>Variety is reporting that [Director, Gore] Verbinski and production company Universal are looking at possibly moving the currently in pre-production film to outside the US to "take advantage of a tax credit," allegedly looking at moving production to London from its current Los Angeles locale.<br />
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Additionally, according to Variety's sources, some of the pre-production staff has been let go while the budget restructuring takes place. The studio (and Verbinski himself) have vowed to not allow the BioShock movie to succumb to the same fate as the perpetually on-again, off-again Halo film.</p>
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More... (http://www.beyondunreal.com/view_story.php?id=12706)
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<p>Variety is reporting that [Director, Gore] Verbinski and production company Universal are looking at possibly moving the currently in pre-production film to outside the US to "take advantage of a tax credit," allegedly looking at moving production to London from its current Los Angeles locale.<br />
<br />
Additionally, according to Variety's sources, some of the pre-production staff has been let go while the budget restructuring takes place. The studio (and Verbinski himself) have vowed to not allow the BioShock movie to succumb to the same fate as the perpetually on-again, off-again Halo film.</p>
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More... (http://www.beyondunreal.com/view_story.php?id=12706)