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'Walk the Line' first movie in rebate program; growing film production 'another tourism attraction' for Mississippi.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 30-JAN-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The first Hollywood movie production to use the new tax incentives for the Mississippi film industry was the blockbuster, "Walk the Line," a biopic featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon as the late Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash.

Both lead actors--and the movie itself--have generated plenty of buzz, yet few moviegoers know that one-third of the scenes were shot in the Magnolia State during the summer of 2004.

Johnny Cash's old home place?

A plank house in the tiny Delta community of Eudora, also the site of a 40-acre cotton field filmed in the movie.

Las...

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