Why your favorite movies fake their locations
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Christmas in New York City isn't it
great the lights the storefront displays
the I'm walking is except this isn't New
York I left New York yesterday and flew
3,000 miles here to Vancouver British
Columbia I know I know I'm sorry but
it's actually not the first time that
you've been lying to you like this
Vancouver and its surrounding towns have
been the accomplice to a plethora of
Lies across movies and television it's
where many of Chris movie love interest
has returned home to refall in love the
holiday their Hometown and their high
school sweetheart Spruce Grove
Washington nope Fort Langley in Canada
New York City nah Martini town a studio
space just outside of Vancouver clearly
Christmas Productions are big in Canada
but Vancouver has also been Seattle New
York City New Hampshire India and just a
short drive away it's where Clark Kent
aka Superman grew up in rural Kansas
right there at that Barn
but what is it about a place like
Vancouver that makes it so attractive to
filmmakers I mean it's not like it's
impossible to shoot in New York and
there's got to be a great Barn in the
state of Kansas that would have worked
for the Kent family farm so why do so
many films fake their
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location number one reason why we shoot
movies in Canada we claim Santa to be
our own as Canadian he lives in the
North Pole in
Canada that's Jesse preus I'm the senior
vice president of scripted at news
entertainment and I've produced swindler
seduction not so Royal Christmas and hot
Frosty the number one decision that
determines where a movie is going to
film is really the locations that are
being called for in the script one of
the reasons that areas like Vancouver
and Atlanta have become such hot spots
for film making is because they have a
lot of different types of scenery in
very close proximity you've got
downtowns Suburban areas mountainous
regions rural Landscapes and even a
temperate rainforest and all of this is
just a short drive from the city so
while you kind of have to be in New York
to convincingly pull off a stroll past
the Washington Square Park Arch if you
just want to be in middle of nowhere
Manhattan or anywhere's Ville USA it's
pretty achievable to do that anywhere
that has a dense enough downtown and
beautiful Rolling Hills and it's much
easier and cheaper to do it in a place
like this on the outskirts of Vancouver
than it would be in a city like New York
New York is one of the most expensive
places to shoot in the world some of the
most expensive hotel rooms in the world
so it becomes very unaffordable to shoot
in New York as much as I dream to do so
the other big consideration is weather
La Atlanta Vancouver all of these cities
have a lot of warm sunny days throughout
the year which means that Productions
don't have to fight mother nature to get
their job done because even something as
simple as rain can cause major issues
like oh my God it's going to rain in 2
days we have an exterior shoot what are
we going to do it means double booking
locations it can be very pricey to do
that but it's a factor and generally
speaking movies are filmed out of season
anyways so you want to make sure that
you have the most flexibility even if
it's uncomfortable I would love frankly
to shoot more Christmas movies in the
winter very often we end up shooting a
lot of these Christmas movies in the
spring or in the summer the actors are
sweating away this bottom layer is just
to soak up the sweat it's nothing but
sweat from here down and we're making
fak snow but it's also part of the magic
so often you'll show up in July and we
are you know on a Town Square and it's
been all snfi and there you are it's
Christmas in the
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clever cinematography and production
design can do a lot like this facade of
Riverview Hospital that has doubled as
an orphanage an asylum and much more but
for a city to be worthwhile to film in
you have to have production friendly
locals and officials I know that when a
Canadian movie producer shows up to shut
down streets in New York that's uh it's
probably not going to happen and
probably rightly so cuz there'd be the
resentment of you know thousands of New
York residents against us New York City
has a population of 8 million
Vancouver has just over 700,000 people
LLY a Municipality of Vancouver that's
about as Hallmark as you can get has a
population that's just under 30,000 when
you go to a smaller town the police
chief wants to play ball there's a bit
more excitement and willingness to work
with producers in these smaller towns
let me put it that way another nice
thing about a smaller siiz city is often
there's less traffic I've had unionized
actors in traffic jams for an hour and a
half and you have five or six of them
and they're all making overtime
especially it's the end of the day that
can be very pricey it's all about
finding The Sweet Spot between somewhere
that's not so crowded that it's really
difficult and expensive to film but also
not so empty that there's no one around
to work in these mediumsized cities
there's one or two Crews that will work
on television movies pretty much
throughout the year so you can tap into
that experienced talent for those things
but if a studio or production company
really wants to get the best bang for
their Buck they need to account for
something less flashy tax incentives tax
credit are also a factor for any major
movie production and they're offered
frankly around the world basically the
government reimburses you for some
portion of the cost of your production
as long as you meet their criteria in
Vancouver you can get tax credits of up
to 28% with no spending cap to qualify
you have to have a certain percentage of
local crew and that's one of the reasons
that Canadian based Productions will
often have a Canadian star or producer
in the
mix filming in specific qualified areas
is can boost your tax credits too like
this Regional ice gatering that has
shown up in a ton of Hallmark movies
even post-production and animation
qualify for tax credits which is one of
the reasons a movie like into the
spiderverse had a primarily Canadian
Workforce typically for Reginal BC we're
counting on about 30% and so yeah $
300,000 on a million dollar you're
hoping to get back Georgia offers 20%
for meeting the basic requirements and
an extra 10% if the film includes the
state logo in the credits you've
probably seen it before California
offers a lesser 20 to 25% on local
Productions and that comes with the cap
you can get a bit more money if you film
outside of the usual zones but it's not
as alluring as other places countries
like Canada the UK Australia and Malta
have gotten quite competitive with their
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