‘Suits’ Spinoff, Janis Joplin Biopic Earn California Tax Credits

The California Film Commission Tuesday awarded $51.6 million in tax credits to 18 movie productions, including a feature about the singer Janis Joplin and a reboot of the television legal drama “Suits.”

Universal Content Productions LLC received the largest credit, worth $12 million, for the first season of “Suits: L.A.,” a spinoff of a series that ran originally from 2011 to 2019. The credit was issued through the state’s Soundstage Filming Tax Credit Program, which funds productions filmed on qualifying stages in California. The show, once intended to be filmed in Canada, is expected to spend $50.7 million and ...