Film industry advocates are hoping more production companies will want to bring their projects to South Jersey. “There’s just so much down here and so rich country down here And … there’s so much that a studio could do down here,” said Assemblywoman Carol Murphy (D-Burlington).
Steve Gorelick, executive director of the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission, highlighted upcoming film projects coming to the state during the Southern New Jersey Development Council’s annual construction forecast at Stockton University on Friday. In 2017 before the state’s tax-credit incentive program for the industry began, “revenue from film and television production in New Jersey stood at about $67 million a year,” Gorelick said. “Last year, which was a record year, annual revenue rose to over $700 million … We had well over 1,170 shooting days in the state last year and 14,000 jobs were created by film and television in 2022 alone.” The incentive program provides tax credits up to 35% for film and digital media productions.
