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Entertainment & Sports

Jan. 1, 2015

Auspicious signs for film financing in 2014

California tax credit legislation plus new sources of outside investment made it one of the better recent years for lawyers who do movie deals.


By Matthew Blake


Daily Journal Staff Writer


In 2014 motion picture financing became front-page, political news when the "dean of entertainment attorneys" Kenneth Ziffren of Ziffren Brittenham LLP became film czar for the city of Los Angeles and helped broker a more than three-fold increase in the state's motion picture tax credits.


The scheduled jump in government subsidies was the clearest indication outside money is flowing mor...

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