About $25 million a year, according to a report by the Phoenix Film Office.

There’s a Republic story on the report here.

A Will Ferrell movie called Everything Must Go was filmed here this spring.

In typically irritating Republic fashion, the newsworthy angle of the story—and, no doubt, the whole reason the film office did the report— isn’t divulged until literally the last two paragraphs:

The future for films in the Valley could decline, the report noted. The Motion Picture Incentive Program administered by the Arizona Department of Commerce offers incentives to production companies in the form of tax credits equaling up to 30 percent of their dollars spent in Arizona, with a cap of $9 million per project.

The incentive program is scheduled to end Dec. 31. Senate Bill 1409, which would have extended the program, was not passed by the Legislature.