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The Mandalorian & Grogu (May 22, 2026)

The Star Wars franchise is coming to shoot a film entirely in California for the first time with The Mandalorian & Grogu movie, and the Golden State is paying out its weight in tax incentive gold to have the bounty hunter saga made within state lines.

To be specific, that is a total tonnage of $21,755,000 in conditional tax credits for the Jon Favreau directed film. With a new Fantastic Four, Gladiator 2 and a new season of The Last of Us on his dance card, it is unclear right now if SAG Award winner Pedro Pascal will be resuming his role of Din Djarin and teaming back up with the charming Baby Yoda for the Mandalorian movie.

What is known is that $21,755,000 in tax credits is one of the biggest allocations in the California Film Commission run program’s history.

Put another way, Mandalorian & Grogu won’t be getting the $22.4 million that Transformers spinoff Bumblebee scored back in 2017, but it tops the more than $20.8 million that Captain Marvel was awarded seven years ago, and the $20.2 million that Quentin Tarantino’s supposed last film #10 received last September.

Estimated to be hiring 500 crew members, 54 cast members, and 3500 background players for 92 filming days in California this year, The Mandalorian & Grogu is expected to generate a record-breaking $166,438,000 in qualified expenditures and below-the-line wages. As fans of the Force know, while Mandalorian is aiming to be the first Star Wars movie to be 100% made in California, Return of the Jedi exteriors were filmed in the state back in the early 1980s.

Still, for a state looking at a bulging $73 billion deficit and an entertainment industry going through its painful Great Contraction, the Mandalorian movie is looking like the greatest job creator out of any movie awarded a tax incentive out of California’s program.  For a more than $330 million per year program revitalized in 2014 as job creation centric and seeking to attract big budget movies back to the home of Hollywood, that’s a pretty big number — even more so in the currently anemic state of the industry post-strikes.

The Disney/Lucasfilm production also knocks Disney/Marvel’s Captain Marvel off its perch as the previous top dog in qualified expenditures and below-the-line wages that mainlined into California’s economy. Partially filmed in Louisiana, the Brie Larson-led MCU picture generated $137 million into the California economy out of its production back in 2018.

Along with Amazon MGM’s recently acquired Chris Pratt-led Mercy, The Mandalorian movie and the 13 other films were awarded conditional tax incentives out of this most recent round of applications, The results of that round, which ran from January 22–29, are estimated by the CFC to eventually inject $408 million into California’s economy through qualified in-state expenditures.

“We are thrilled to be able to shoot in Los Angeles thanks to the tax credit,” said Mercy producer Charles Roven of today’s announcement, which will see the Timur Bekmambetov directed film get just under $4.4 million in incentives. “We get to work with terrific talent that lives here and utilize the wonderful locations. And almost everyone gets to go home to their own bed at the end of day!,” Oscar nominated Roven added.

From the 35,000 feet perspective, the 15 films will hire a total of 2,252 crew members, 598 cast, and 16,800 background performers that will equal a combination of 579 filming days. In the belt tightening that Gov. Gavin Newsom and the legislature in Sacramento have had to do for this year’s state budget, the Tax Incentive program has been left untouched so far because of the jobs, expenditures and cash positive revenues it results in.

The next round of tax incentives allocation will be for the small screen, with applications being accepted February 26-28 for Recurring and Relocating Television Series, and from March 4-6 for New Television Series. The successful applicants for the $200 million in incentives available for that round will be announced on April 8. For the big screen, the next application period for the $80 million in tax incentives available will start in August.

As bounty hunter Din Djarin said in his first lines in the first episode of The Mandalorian TV series back in late 2019: “I can bring you in warm, or I can bring you in cold.” Yes, but in the competitive arena of lucrative tax credits and incentives around North America and the globe, everyone loves the warmth of big checks, don’t they?

Take a look at the 15 films conditionally allocated about $61 million in tax credits below:

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At least one blockbuster project headlines the titles selected to receive tax credits to shoot in California.

The state’s film office on Friday said that California’s Film & TV tax credit program will welcome a trio of feature films, including Quentin Tarantino’s The Movie Critic, as well as a roster of 13 independent films. (No studio is currently attached to The Movie Critic yet.)

Netflix ($20 million) is the only major studio nabbing credits in this allotment for an untitled film. Lionsgate ($21.1 million) led the way in the previous round of incentives and Netflix and Warner Bros. in the previous four before that.

Tarantino’s final project, listed as “#10” in a nod to his 10th and final movie and produced through L. Driver Productions ($20.2 million), tops the list for the three feature titles that were conditionally granted incentives. The film revolves around a cynical movie critic, whom Tarantino read growing up, and is set in 1977 Southern California. The production is projected to generate more in-state spending than any other movie in the film office’s 14-year history, with $128.4 million in qualified spending. The figure eclipses the record set by Lionsgate’s Michael Jackson biopic Michael ($120.1 million), which was selected to receive credits in March.

“I love shooting in California,” Tarantino said in a statement. “I started directing movies here and it is only fitting that I shoot my final motion picture in the cinema capital of the world.”

The director added, “There is nothing like shooting in my hometown; the crews are the best I’ve ever worked with, and the locations are amazing.”

Restless Productions, Inc. was also granted $20.7 million in credits for Under My Skin, a Frank Sinatra biopic.

Combined, the three big-budget movies will generate an estimated $362 million in qualified spending and $540 million in total production spending in California. They mark a record for the state’s film and TV tax incentive program in terms of spending generated by large studio projects in a single round of tax credits, passing the record set in the last film allocation round announced in March 2023.

In total, the 16 projects selected to receive a total of $77.8 million in tax credits this round are on track to bring $670 million in total production spending, including roughly $466 million in qualified expenditures. (Defined as wages to below-the-line workers and payments to in-state vendors.) They will also employ an estimated 2,422 crew, 851 cast and 23,427 actors and stand-ins, shooting in the state for the entirety of production.

“While production is now drastically reduced, today’s news about projects in our tax credit program signals there will be a much-welcome surge in California-based production once the strikes are resolved,” said California Film Commission Executive Director Colleen Bell.

California designates $330 million annually in credits to shoot in the state. Legislators passed in June a bill that makes the incentives refundable, meaning companies could receive a refund for a portion of their credits that exceed their tax liability. Only Disney and NBCUniversal had tax liabilities in California to take full advantage of the program. Most other states have similar schemes.

Given the dual work stoppage that has essentially brought production to a halt, projects are expected to invoke the tax credit program’s force majeure provision, which pauses the 180-day start date requirement for principal photography. Credits will not be distributed until production is completed and all wages and expenses have been paid.

Of the 13 independent films selected to participate in the tax incentive program, which will generate a combined $104 million in qualified spending, ten have budgets of less than $10 million. They include four projects from parent company Faith Media ($3.8 million): Agent Plus, Boys Club, International Gangster and Quadir’s Redemption.

“I’m a resident of California and it brings me great joy to work with locals and to take advantage of all the amazing things the state has to offer,” said Faith Media president Yolanda Halley in a statement.

The California Film Commission received a total of 55 applications during this round of credits for feature films. The next application periods for features and TV projects will be from Jan. 8-15 and Sept. 4-13 respectively.

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GrooThePerverted wrote:I was just thinking last night, Twink, that Suits has been off the air an extraordinary amount of time.  And it's not like the show is between seasons, it's mid season. 

Just looked it up and it comes back this week motherfucker! WHOOOOOOOO!  January 28th which is Wednesday.

Last episode #10 aired August 20th 2014.  It'll have been 5 fucking months since it aired with a HUGE cliffhanger.

I know Wylde doesn't watch and some may scoff, but this show is one of the best on TV.  The writing is top shelf as is the acting, IMO.

I was just thinking, this whole storyline is absolutely ridiculous. So now Louis wants to be a name partner because it's what he has wanted his entire career. But he wants to be a partner at a firm where the other two partners despise him? That makes no sense. Unless he's completely delusional, no one in their right mind would want to take a position like that knowing he has no respect to begin with and that no one really wants him to have. I get that it's a show and we need to suspend our disbelief or whatever but this is just really, really stretching it. A lot.

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GrooThePerverted wrote:I was just thinking last night, Twink, that Suits has been off the air an extraordinary amount of time.  And it's not like the show is between seasons, it's mid season. 

Just looked it up and it comes back this week motherfucker! WHOOOOOOOO!  January 28th which is Wednesday.

Last episode #10 aired August 20th 2014.  It'll have been 5 fucking months since it aired with a HUGE cliffhanger.

I know Wylde doesn't watch and some may scoff, but this show is one of the best on TV.  The writing is top shelf as is the acting, IMO.

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