from: FilmLA.com — Please be reminded that all Los Angeles County Beaches will be off-limits for weekend filming beginning Saturday, May 19th through Sunday, September 9th. This year the Department of Beaches and Harbors has also announced that no beach filming may take place on Friday, May 25, due to holiday conflicts. In addition, some beach locations will be...
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from: Richard Verrier, LA Times.com — Annette Bening, Al Pacino, Ed Harris and several other celebrities helped power a surge in feature film shoots on the streets of Los Angeles last month, but film industry officials were hardly star struck. Thanks to a flurry of low-budget celebrity-packed pictures, location shoots jumped 74% in April over last year, continuing...
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from: FilmWorksLA.com — Three Former CA Governors Make Bipartisan Case for Increasing California Film Incentive Former California Governors George Deukmejian (R), Pete Wilson (R) and Gray Davis (D) authored a joint editorial in the Sacramento Bee this week urging state lawmakers to extend and increase the California Film & Television Tax Credit. Now, as in...
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from: FilmWorksLA.com — Whenever we hear about an entertainment business committed to growing and expanding its presence in the Golden State, we like to pay them a visit. And, when Film Works learned that Lee Brownstein, founder of Santa Monica-based XcitableBoy Productions, made the gutsy decision to expand during one of the slowest film production periods on...
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from: Stop-Runaway-Production.com — Cost per job created under film incentive exceeds average annual salary in Ohio film industry… Incompetence in news reporting is common these days, especially when it comes to covering state film incentives. Winning the gold medal for journalistic incompetence this week is Cleveland’s NBC affiliate, WKYC. Today, the...
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from: FilmWorksLA.com — Fantastic news for California film crews! A bill that would have authorized the largest domestic film incentive allocation ever ($2.1 billion) died in the Arizona House of Representatives this week. The proposed bill would have allowed for a 20% cash refund on all qualified production expenditures and up to 30% if producers hired Arizona...
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