Alberta Mentioned in Denver Post Film Article

Alberta is mentioned in a DenverPost.com article as one of the key places for "runaway productions" that should have been shot in Colorado:

"This is an industry we are missing out on," says Denise Strong, a Denver-based member of the Directors Guild of America and vice president of the Colorado Film and Video Association. "This industry offers a big shot in the arm economically for everybody near a location."

This year in Colorado, a few scenes of Resurrecting the Champ, a story about a Denver- based sportswriter starring Josh Hartnett and Samuel L. Jackson, were shot locally. Principal photography took place in Calgary, Alberta.

Last year, Catch and Release, with Jennifer Garner, spent five days and $500,000 filming in Boulder. Then the film spent 50 days and many millions filming in Canada.

RV, with Robin Williams, was set story-wise in the Colorado Rockies but filmed in Canada.

Runaway production film producers following foreign cash incentives and favorable currency exchange rates - is estimated to have cost many sectors of the American film industry billions of dollars in the past decade and a half.

Parts of 2005's Mr. & Mrs. Smith, featuring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, were filmed in Glenwood Springs. (20th Century Fox)
producers following foreign cash incentives and favorable currency exchange rates - is estimated to have cost many sectors of the American film industry billions of dollars in the past decade and a half.

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