‘Yellowstone,’ ‘Love and Death’ Spark ‘Game-Changing’ Film Production Spike in Texas
variety.comAndrew Barker Senior Features Writer Things have always been bigger in Texas. And thanks to some recently passed legislation, Texas film production is finally primed to take on a role befitting the state’s reputation.
After years of watching productions opt for more incentive-rich states, Texas has been home to an immense amount of film and TV shooting over the past two years, with HBO’s “Love and Death,” Paramount’s “Yellowstone,” Apple TV+’s “The Last Thing He Told Me,” the CW’s “Walker,” Netflix’s “Hypnotic” and the Houston-set series “Mo” all setting up shop in the Lone Star state.
And the floodgates look set to open even further with the recent legislative passage of $200 million in state shooting incentives, a sharp increase from the $45 million the state offered previously.
For Nixon Guerrero, manager of Robert Rodriguez’s Austin institution Troublemaker Studios — which staged the largest Texas production to date with 2019’s “Alita: Battle Angel,” and recently shot the Ben Affleck-starrer “Hypnotic” in the state — the incentives boost has the potential to be “game-changing” for the state’s film future. “In the last decade and a half, the Texas industry as a whole hasn’t grown as much as it could have,” Guerrero says. “The inflection point is now: this year, this session, this funding.
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