Hollywood, Michigan?

Add Michigan to the list of states trying to lure films with huge tax breaks.

They are currently offering a huge 42% tax rebate on films shooting there. These breaks have brought out Clint Eastwood‘s Gran Torino, Drew Barrymore‘s new film Whip It and many others.

The tax break has become so successful that Michigan is now building a $53 million dollar studio to house all of the productions.

This is bad, bad news for those of us day players and small supporting role actors.

Filming there has become so much cheaper than shooting in LA that Sony is thinking of shooting Spider-Man 4 in the state.

From the Oakland Press:

Raimi is slated to begin production on “Spider-Man 4″ in 2010, in fact and, he said, envisions shooting some of that movie in Michigan.

“I’ll be looking at Michigan for our second-unit photography on the new ‘Spider-Man’ film,” he confirmed.

The extensive infrastructure needed to crank out megabudget productions like the three “Spider-Man” movies he already has made has, for the most part, kept him in Hollywood, Raimi pointed out.

“Producers are always looking at the bottom line, and if they can get the same looking stuff somewhere else cheaper, they’re going to shoot there,” Rumble said.

Such was the case with “Spider-Man 3.”

“It was cheaper to shoot in Ohio because the streets we were shooting on had storefronts that looked a little bit more like New York than Detroit did,” Raimi explained. “But if the incentives Michigan has now had been in place, we would have had the money to adapt a set in Detroit.”