Do they think this stuff just gravitates here because we are such a welcoming place? Hardly, Buffalo has such a tainted image across the country, we need all the help we can get. Why then cut a potential revenue generating agency? These people are so backwards in their thinking it’s no longer a legislature representing the peoples interest. Self serving and greed are eating them up and we suffer because of it.

Buffalo may get a big role in new movie

“The Factory” will be produced by Warner Bros. subsidiary Dark Castle Entertainment.

Since its creation in 2002, the Buffalo Niagara Film Commission has lured a variety of film, television and advertising projects to Western New York. Estimates of the contribution of those projects to the area economy run as high as $20 million.

Friday the County Legislature’s Finance and Budget Committee voted to cut its entire $150,000 budget allocation for next year.

Initially operated under the auspices of Erie County government, the one man film office briefly faded to black as a victim of the 2005 county budget crisis. The office is now funded through the Buffalo Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau.

In addition to “The Savages” and “Bruce Almighty,” the commission’s other credits include: “Poultrygeist,” a horror-musical due out this year, and MTV’s “Sorority Life” and “Fraternity Life” series.

The office also oversaw filming of a key background scene at Niagara Falls for “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” which came out this year.

Just this week, it assisted a national auto parts seller in two days of filming in southern Erie County for upcoming television commercials.

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