Since 1971 the Pennsylvania Film Office has provided incentives for films and other productions in the state. The law has been amended several times since then, including a 2016 law that expanded the scope of incentivized activities to include various post-production operations. As currently devised, the principal incentive is a 25% tax credit provided to productions that spend at least 60% of their total budget in the state. Eligible productions include a feature film, a television film, a television talk or game show series, a television commercial, a television pilot or each episode of a television series intended as programming for a national audience.

One recipient of this subsidy was How Do You Know Productions, Inc., which in the financial year 2010-2011 (1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011) received a tax credit of $14,979,853 for the movie “How Do You Know.”