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Digital Domain Florida eyes games – Variety
By DAVID S. COHEN
David Rivera, chairman of the appropriations committee for the Florida House of Representatives, told Daily Variety, “Anything we can do to incentivize growth of (the film) industry is good for our state.”
DD Florida will focus on videogames and animation, said Cliff Plumer, CEO of Digital Domain. “We can do that now …
Digital Domain has been developing its own animation projects internally, and with the new…
The new studio also will have a defense division working on creating high-quality graphics for military simulation and training,…
The incentive package requires DD Florida to have at least 500 employees, paid an average of $65,000, within four years….
That will greatly expand DD’s total workforce, which now numbers around…
Plumer also reiterated that Venice-based DD will keep its headquarters…
“The decisionmakers, the filmmakers, are all in L.A. We need to have our core presence there for that part of the business,” he said.