"Love and other drugs" financed by taxpayers support

'Love & Other Drugs' Portrait of Jake Gyllenhaal

Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal in Entertainment Weekly

"Government subsidies for film and television productions proliferated in flush times as more than 40 states competed for entertainment work.
That has been enough to send a shudder through Hollywood, where producers have come to rely on taxpayer support for films like “How Do You Know,” “The Social Network,” “Love and Other Drugs,” “127 Hours” and many others. “If you take that away, I think production will leave the U.S.,” a producer, Brian Oliver, said. He is about to leave for Michigan and Ohio to begin shooting “The Ides of March”, a drama directed by and starring George Clooney that follows political campaign operatives on the road to the White House. Mr. Oliver said his Cross Creek Pictures, one of the companies behind “Black Swan” could not function without public money". Source: www.nytimes.com