{"id":488668,"date":"2026-10-08T01:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488668\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T01:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:42:20","slug":"35-film-projects-including-ice-cubes-last-friday-receive-california-tax-credits-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488668\/","title":{"rendered":"35 film projects \u2014 including Ice Cube\u2019s \u2018Last Friday\u2019 \u2014 receive California tax credits \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/a> on Wednesday announced that 35 film projects, including the long-awaited next installment in Ice Cube\u2019s \u201cFriday\u201d franchise, are receiving credits in the latest round of awards from the expanded California Film Commission\u2019s Film & Television Tax Credit Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Twenty-eight of the 35 projects are independent productions, including 20 with budgets under $10 million, and state officials say the selections show \u201cthat California is uniquely tailored to support grassroots creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat makes this latest round so exciting is the mix of independent filmmaking and iconic stories that are part of California\u2019s cultural legacy,\u201d California Film Commission Director Colleen Bell said. \u201cFrom an emerging filmmaker bringing an ambitious new vision to life to the return of beloved franchises like \u2018Last Friday,\u2019 \u2018Clueless\u2019 and \u2018The Rockford Files,\u2019 these are stories with deep roots in California. Through our tax credit program, we\u2019re helping bring these stories to the screen while keeping the jobs, investment, and production that bring them to life right here in California.\u201d<\/p>\n

The recipients include the following projects:<\/p>\n

\u2014 \u201cLast Friday\u201d (New Line Cinema)<\/p>\n

\u2014 \u201cMichael 2\u201d (working title) (Lionsgate)<\/p>\n

\u2014 Untitled Paramount Crime Thriller (Paramount Pictures)<\/p>\n

\u2014 \u201cLeaves of Glass\u201d (Pinstripes Studios)<\/p>\n

\u2014 \u201cPure\u201d (The Space Program)<\/p>\n

\u2014 Untitled Mike Mills Film<\/p>\n

\u2014 American Wolf (Sweet Humans Productions)<\/p>\n

\u2014 Additional projects from Warner Bros. Studios and Pixar<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to produce \u2018Last Friday\u2019 right here in Southern California, where our cast and crew lives,\u201d said Ice Cube, the star, writer and producer of the upcoming film. \u201cThis story has been part of the fabric of South Los Angeles since our first film 31 years ago so producing the film here with more than 180 local cast and crew underscores the value of the California production incentive program. We\u2019re thankful for the opportunity to stay local.\u201d<\/p>\n

Victoria Alonso and Tom Culliver, producers of \u201cLeaves of Glass,\u201d said their film was \u201cset in the Chicano communities of Los Angeles, and it simply wouldn\u2019t exist if we couldn\u2019t shoot here. We are incredibly excited to showcase a side of Los Angeles rarely seen on camera, and work with the greatest crews in the world. We are deeply grateful to the California Film Commission for making this film possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Newsom\u2019s office, the expanded tax credit program has generated $7.2 billion in California production spending since July 2025 via 179 different projects.<\/p>\n

Officials with the governor\u2019s office said the 35 projects will deliver meaningful economic benefits for California, including $1.08 billion in direct production spending, $635 million in qualified spending (inclusive of qualified wages), $423 million in qualified wages, 5,453 cast and crew jobs, 24,842 background performers measured in days worked, and 1,049 total California shooting days.<\/p>\n

Newsom\u2019s announcement comes one day after Los Angeles-area members of Congress and entertainment industry unions called for passage of legislation that would create a federal tax credit for film and television productions made in the United States.<\/p>\n

The governor also signed a bill last month that creates a first-of-its kind tax credit to support entertainment workers in all areas of post-production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced that 35 film projects, including the long-awaited next installment in Ice Cube\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[387,7,400,457,48,52,51,47,50,49,1399,100,13,2822],"class_list":["post-488668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-business","tag-california","tag-california-politics","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}