Michigan movie industry gears up for a film tax credit fight

Actors, set designers, grips, screenwriters, casting agents and hundreds of small-business owners packed a banquet center in Livonia on Thursday evening in a call to action the likes of which the state has never seen. More than a thousand strong, members of Michigan’s movie industry came together Thursday evening in a dramatic show of unity, gearing up for a massive lobbying campaign in Lansing to save their livelihoods.