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Imagine “The Walking Dead” in Bithlo or “Stranger Things” in Pine Hills.

It could have happened.

The pop culture megahits, still available on streaming platforms, were filmed in Georgia, which offers generous tax incentives for motion picture and video production while Florida, once ranked as high as third in the nation for production work, dumped its incentive program.

“We were going gangbusters in the ’90s,” said Roseann Harrington, Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings’ chief of staff, while pitching a film incentive program to county commissioners on Tuesday. “We were going to be the ‘Hollywood of the East,’ and we were on our way to doing that when, in 2016, the state ended incentives, and things kind of dried up in Florida, in Orlando and

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