A remake of the seventies Motown-inspired movie Sparkle will be filmed in metro Detroit and employ 266 people. The state approved a three-million-dollar film incentive for the seven-million-dollar project. Sparkle tells the story of three sisters’ journey to musical fame during the height of the Motown era in Detroit.
Michelle Begnoche is with the Michigan Film Office. She says the film will stimulate Michigan’s economy.
"This is a project that’s focused really a lot on hiring Michigan workers for its crew so we will see the economic benefit from that – hiring our workforce – and then obviously it’s something that we can use on the backend after it comes out to kind of help promote tourism in the Detroit area," Begnoche said.
Producers hope to release Sparkle in 2014.
- Amelia Carpenter - Michigan Radio Newsroom
