OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) -- Kentucky is seeing dividends from a law that provides incentives to attract movie, television and stage show productions.
RiverPark Center president Zev Buffman told the Messenger-Inquirer that it helped him get contracts to build two new touring Broadway shows at the performing arts center in Owensboro. He estimates the financial impact will be around $150,000.
Kentucky Film Office director Todd Cassidy told the newspaper that he negotiated for three years to get the producers of the movie "Secretariat" to film in Kentucky. He said they didn't agree until the incentives were passed this year. The economic impact was $6 million to $7 million.
He says a smaller independent movie will be filming in December and is expected to have a $3.5 million impact.
Records show the state had 233 days of filming with a direct economic impact of $3.1 million in 2007.
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