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By David Bailey
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Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:05pm EDT
DETROIT (Reuters) - An unmarked Detroit police car makes a screeching stop outside a downtown bus terminal and the homicide detective dashes out to search for a suspect.
Then the director yells cut, and actor Michael Imperioli and the dozens of extras posing as police and passersby for the new TV series "Detroit 1-8-7" saunter back into position to do it all again from another angle.
Welcome to Detroit, a half century into Motown's decline and just months into a still controversial boom that has made it Hollywood's bargain destination for filming.
Carolyn Tolley, who watched under a blue awning on a recent shoot for "Detroit 1-8-7," credits Michigan's rich tax incentives for movie production for keeping her working after jobs in advertising for the auto industry here dried up.
"I was leaving. I wouldn't be here for sure," said Tolley, a script supervisor who had been planning to move to Arizona before Hollywood came to her doorstep with a raft of projects.
Tolley points to the gypsy convoy of work trucks on hand for her shoot to argue that state tax incentives for production are succeeding in trickling down much-needed jobs and income.
"It's about how this industry feeds so many other industries here," she said.
Detroit's population has dropped to less than half of its 1950s peak. Almost a third of the city is abandoned. One in six residents is out of work, and Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is pushing a plan to shrink the city by encouraging residents to pull back into the healthiest remaining neighborhoods.
Meanwhile, a wave of films shot in the Detroit area and funded by a state program that refunds up to 42 percent of the cost of production is heading toward theaters.
Those include legal drama "Conviction" starring double Oscar-winner Hilary Swank, spy thriller "The Double" with Richard Gere and the robot action move "Real Steel" with Hugh Jackman.
MILEY CYRUS, DEMI MOORE BRING CELEBRITY GLAMOUR
In a city staggered by the long decline of the American auto industry, the effect of the sudden film wave has been to bring a dash of celebrity glamour to the prevailing gloom.
Doormen at the downtown Book Cadillac have had to deal with a gaggle of adoring fans hoping to catch sight of teen idol Miley Cyrus, when she was in town to shoot coming-of-age comedy "LOL."
Gerard Butler ("Machine Gun Preacher") and Demi Moore ("LOL") surprised a crowd of regulars by turning up unannounced at a karaoke bar in nearby, working-class Garden City.
Some of the recent movies have capitalized on Detroit's could-be-anywhere quality. A downtown street was made over as Wall Street at Christmas on a recent summer day for the sequel to comedy "Harold and Kumar, for example.
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