A push to build “Hollywood 2.0” in Summerlin is not dead even though efforts to boost tax credits for the project from the state failed for a third time in the Nevada Legislature, actor and Las Vegas resident Mark Wahlberg said.

Assembly Bill 5, which proposed $95 million in transferable tax credits from the state, failed this month to obtain a majority vote of the state Senate in favor of the $1.8 billion project, dubbed Summerlin Studios, during a special session of the Legislature.

Wahlberg called the bill’s failure “very disappointing,” but he said the effort to bring a studio to Summerlin is not over.

“It is what it is,” Wahlberg told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Saturday at a Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix event at the Bellagio. “It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when

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