Discusses the tax advantages and other benefits that are bring filmmakers to New York. The preparations made by movie director Jesse Peretz and his crew on Staten Island for filming the comedy "Fast Track"; Idea that tax credits and rebates will lure the movie industry back from Canada; Locations in New York City sought by the crew of "Fast Track" that would substitute for locales in Columbus, Ohio; The city policy of free advertising and municipal cooperation; Locale scouting companies: This is That Productions and Where'bouts; Actors who have come to the city to make films, including Robert De Niro.