Touting Covid-19 success, Australia offers Hollywood studios US$280 million to revive jobs

Australia is hoping its success in dealing with the coronavirus will lure more big budget Hollywood productions Down Under, with the government announcing incentives worth hundreds of millions of dollars on Friday.Promising “lights, camera, jobs,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison unveiled a Aus$400 million (US$280 million) boost in cash grants for film productions, a move he said had already piqued the interest of major studios.“Jerry Bruckheimer’s outfit and Ron Howard’s outfit have already…

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