New Mexico is putting lots of effort into bringing new Hollywood productions to the state, like the new Indiana Jones.
There are now six sound stages in the state with six feature films in production.
In addition, Sony Imageworks and Lionsgate Entertainment are moving some of their operations to New Mexico.
Currently the state offers a 25% tax rebate on movie productions there.
Funny how Waxahachie has a MASSIVE empty campus (more than 150 acres) that would make for an amazing sound stage/studio but it’s been sold by the county to an investment firm wanting to turn the former Superconducting Super Collider into a Tier IV Data Center.
In fact at least one movie production did some of their filming at the site in the past.
Listen to the full story on NPR.
Can you guess which other movies and TV shows have been filmed in Waxahachie?
From Imdb:
- Band (1998)
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
…aka Bonnie and Clyde… Were Killers! (1967) (UK) - Breaking Home Ties (1987)
…aka Norman Rockwell’s Breaking Home Ties (1987) (TV) - Cowboy (1983) (TV)
- Fat Girls (2006)
- It Takes Two (1988)
…aka My New Car (1989) (Australia) - Lost Princess, The (2005)
- Mangus! (2007)
- Missionary Man (2007)
- Ollie Hopnoodle’s Haven of Bliss (1988) (TV)
- Optimystic (2006)
- Places in the Heart (1984)
- Square Dance (1987)
…aka Home Is Where the Heart Is (1987) (USA: TV title) - Strangeheart (2003)
- Tender Mercies (1983)
- Too High, Too Wide and Too Long: A Texas Style Road Trip (1999)
- Trip to Bountiful, The (1985)
- Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
- When the Time Comes (1987) (TV)
In addition, within the last two years since I’ve been in Waxahachie, there was a Chevy Truck commercial, several episodes of Prison Break, several music videos and the movie Walking Tall 2 with Kevin Sorbo all filmed in Waxahachie.
