Ontario tax credit lures British Columbia's Brightlight

Brightlight Pictures, Vancouver's busiest film production company, will likely leave British Columbia for Toronto this month to take advantage of better tax incentives offered in Ontario. Brightlight -- which produced the Michael Keaton horror film White Noise, released last week -- has a full 2005 slate, which would move with the company to Ontario. Among the films -- and the 600 jobs associated with them -- the company is threatening to move is Wickerman, starring Nicholas Cage and Dungeon Siege, based on a popular video game.

Source: Marke Andrews, Amy Carmichael, The Ottawa Citizen, (extract)