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Podcast: It's Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch
Episode: Hollywood South - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge
Description: When the State created the tax incentive program in the early 2000s to attract movie and TV producers to Louisiana, the hope was to turn Louisiana into Hollywood South. 15 years later, more movie and TV shows are shot in Louisiana than in almost any other state in the country. A big chunk of those productions have been filmed in Baton Rouge, at the Celtic Media Centre. Celtic is the largest studio in the state, with seven sound stages totaling more than 150 thousand square feet over forty acres. Blockbuster hits like Twilight Breaking Dawn were shot there. Patrick Mulhearn is Director...