from: Richard Verrier, LA Times – On the second floor of a hospital, a criminal profiler is strolling down a hallway with a colleague when an alarm goes off. Several doctors and nurses sprint past him to an intensive care unit where a child and potential witness to a crime is being treated. The scene, for an upcoming episode of the CBS crime drama “Criminal...
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from: FilmWorksLA Blog – Louisiana Film Officials Confuse Fact With Fiction, Integrity of Industry Data Suffers Despite the size and importance of the film and television industry — and not only for California, but for the entire nation — there’s a woeful lack of consistent and/or accurate data available about it. Frustration over this lack of information...
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from: Richard Verrier, LA Times – At the Grammy Awards Sunday night, performers including alternative-country duo Civil Wars, jazz artist Diana Krall and British singer Adele will take to the stage, along with the reunited Beach Boys and more than a dozen other musical acts. Working behind the scenes to make sure that nothing goes wrong is Paul Holehouse,...
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from: Richard Verrier, LA Times – Martin Cuff, who has run film commissions from Colorado to Cape Town, South Africa, and built up film programs in Bosnia, Turkey and Serbia, was recently tapped to be executive director of the Association of Film Commissioners International, which hosts the popular annual Locations Show. A native of England who lives in South...
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from: Richard Verrier, LA Times – Horses have long played lead roles in cinema, from the classic movie “National Velvet” to 2010’s “Secretariat,” a drama based on the Triple Crown-winning thoroughbred. But rarely have they taken center stage as much they do in “War Horse,” Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated epic about an English farm boy’s...
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from: FilmWorksLA.com – Noticing the popularity of a story we ran about California’s top competitors last June, Film Works staffers decided to take a second look at California top five competitors (including U.S. states and other nations) for film and television production. Of course, as anyone who follows the Film Works blog knows, most other jurisdictions’...
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