Exactly one year ago today, Film Works celebrated its launch at Los Angeles Center Studios with the support of more than two dozen in-kind sponsors. If you missed the launch, please watch the following video from Shoot Movies in California, which was on hand to offer support and film the event: Help Film Works Celebrate the Occasion and Earn a Free Film Works Hat! To...
Learn More
from: Richard Verrier, LA Times — The crew of “NCIS: Los Angeles” was in the middle of filming a scene on the Venice boardwalk when a man wearing only his underwear and a cape rode by on his bicycle shouting obscenities. On another occasion, a stranger wielding a plastic light saber showed up on the set and challenged one of the actors to a duel, temporarily...
Learn More
Production Alert from FilmLA.com — The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will take its annual Winter Break from December 16, 2011 until January 6, 2012. Although LAUSD school facilities will be minimally occupied and available for filming use during this time, requests to film must be discussed with school site representatives no later than December 16....
Learn More
from: Richard Verrier, LA Times — On a shelf in his Sunland office, Gregg Bilson Jr. displays one of his proudest props: a Nambu semiautomatic pistol that a Japanese soldier used for a suicide scene in “Flags of Our Fathers.” The weapon was among nearly 600 guns that Bilson’s company, Independent Studio Services, shipped to Iceland for the 2006 Clint Eastwood...
Learn More
from Richard Verrier, LA Times — First it was artificially tanned, party-crazed Italian Americans. Now it’s mud-racing, squirrel-hunting Appalachians. MTV once again finds itself at odds with state film officials who refuse to subsidize the network’s latest reality TV show with tax credits, citing its unflattering depiction of West Virginia...
Learn More
from: Richard Verrier, LA Times — The Orpheum Theatre, the Bradbury Building and Hancock Park are among the Los Angeles locations that play a starring role in “The Artist,” French director Michel Hazanavicius’ hommage to the silent film era. The recently released black-and-white movie about the lives of silent film star George Valentin (Jean...
Learn More
