Your tax dollars paid for these films

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August 30, 2010 - 04:13 PM

By Ryan Kearney (Twitter @rkearney)

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: You even paid for this hideous mummy wrap.

Marylanders, you've paid, however indirectly, for a choreographer to train a shaggy-haired teenager to dance backwards up stairs and for an army of antique cars and bad actors. Then again, you've also funded some of the greatest lines in TV history.

Virginians, we applaud your support of the noble effort to unite our nation's two greatest assets, Minka Kelly and Gabrielle Union, and of fulfilling my wish to see Paul Giamatti with a full head of hair. However, I could have died happy without ever watching Hilary Swank be force-fed in slow motion.

And Washingtonians, well, you only contributed to two movies, both big-budget Hollywood features. One was a political thriller (shocking!) in which Russell Crowe makes American journalism look exciting and dangerous, which it isn't, and the jury's still out on the other one (the trailer is not promising).

Right, then. Per my earlier post, here's a full, complete, exhaustive, and otherwise definitive list of every film that has ever been funded by D.C., Maryland, or Virginia's respective film incentive programs.

D.C.

How Do You Know - $1,400,000

State of Play - $183,606

MARYLAND

The Dead Ones - $100,000

Washingtonienne - $740,763

Past Life - $1,000,000

My One and Only - $3,000,000

Hit and Run - $400,000

Step Up 2 - $3,529,123

From Within - $400,000

The Wire (season 5) - $2,000,000