California’s movie and TV industries have been trying for years to get state tax credits for filing in California. Last week it looked like they might have succeeded. “Just over half of the $140 million would provide nonrefundable film and TV tax credits — $70 million for film production and $5 million for commercials. But even that tax-credit provision — modest compared to the incentives offered in New York, Louisiana, and other states — caused controversy in the deeply partisan California State Senate.”