The Ocean City Council voted Tuesday to approve the Tourism Advisory
Board’s request to allocate $100,000 for investment in the upcoming
movie “Ping Pong Summer,” to be filmed in Ocean City and star Susan
Sarandon, though the council’s tenor seemed to be one of trepidation.
TAB had made the recommendation after meeting extensively with the
film’s producers, as well as local business representatives, a fact that
seemed to sway many council members more than the promise of the film
itself.
Although not necessarily enthused, the council approved TAB’s
recommendation as one that had come from a consensus group to which the
council had already committed funding regardless of its use.
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Hollywood has enough money to fund films,not OC.
ReplyDelete100K is a drop in a bucket for making a movie. Hell you can blow 1,000X that on a commercial. It'll bring money to the area, just like A Perfect Storm and Wedding Crashers did.
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