from: Richard Verrier, LA Times — Location filming on Los Angeles streets continued to slide last week due to a steady falloff in local TV shoots. The decline was led by a 37% drop in production days for TV shoots compared with the same time a year ago, according to data from the film permitting group FilmL.A. Inc. Television production has been down 15% in the...
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from: Richard Verrier, LA Times — Santa Clarita is rolling out the red carpet for its storied movie ranches. The City Council for the suburban community in northern Los Angeles County recently approved a new zoning designation intended to promote filming on local ranches within a 30-mile radius. The designation establishes standard rules for shooting on...
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from: FilmLA eNews — On Sunday, October 16, 2011, Film Liaisons in California Statewide (FLICS) celebrated filming in California by hosting the California On Location Awards (COLA) at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Now in their 17th year, the COLAs honor location professionals, production companies and public employees for professional...
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from: Richard Verrier, LA Times — In a sewer beneath Las Vegas, a lethal vixen named Abigail is locked in a mortal struggle with an outlaw cowboy with ties to Greek gods. The scene, recently filmed over three days on a sound stage in Glendale, wasn’t for a new sci-fi TV series or movie. It was for a 30-second commercial spot aired on Google TV to promote...
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from: Adrian McDonald, FilmWorksLA.com — In the following video interview with Film Works, Terri Melknonian, who is the Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Sunset Gower Studios, talks about the number of people employed on the hit show “Dexter” (the interview took place in front of the Dexter sound stages) and the number of people employed on any given...
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from: FilmWorksLA.com — Last week, TheWrap began running a series of fantastic articles about Hollywood and the jobs crisis. The articles do not paint a very pretty picture for those working in California. In TheWrap’s lead article in the series, UCLA film professor Howard Suber describes the jobs situation in terms of supply and demand: “It’s the...
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