Canadian studio operators have been watching the growing Hollywood backlash against Georgia's restrictive voting laws and are betting the major studios will soon bow to pressure and shift production out of Atlanta.
Paul Bronfman, CEO of Comweb Corp. and chair of Pinewood Toronto Studios, says supporting calls for a production boycott over the Georgia situation is about morality, not competing jurisdictions for Hollywood production. "It's not that Atlanta is a direct competitor to Canada.
There's a bigger point here. It's morality and the right of people to exercise their democratic vote. And what's going on in Georgia, and spreading, is anti-democratic and it's anti-everything we stand for.