from: Richard Verrier, LA Times — — Video Below — A group of Irish mobsters pulled up their SUV outside a barn and makeshift gun warehouse, where a band of gang members parked their custom made Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The men huddled inside the barn, as body guards in leather jackets, chains and foot-long knives swatted away flies and eyed each...
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from: FilmLA.com — With the rainy season upon us, the Los Angeles County Beaches and Harbors Department has asked FilmL.A. to issue a broad advisory to film companies that might plan to use L.A. County Beaches for water scenes. FilmL.A. hereby advises that, should Los Angeles County health officials issue an official “Rain Advisory,” filming at L.A. County...
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from: ShootMoviesInCalifornia.com — Not only is Judd Apatow a great writer, but he is an all around great filmmaker and he does not like to shoot to far from home as you will hear him explain in this video acceptance clip he made because he was being honored at the 2011 COLA (California On Location Awards) Awards Show (which he could not attend because he was...
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from: Richard Verrier, LA Times — It was a tepid week for on-location filming. Production days for film, TV and commercial shoots declined 15% compared with the same period last year, according to the latest permit figures from FilmL.A. Inc. The decrease was driven by feature films, which generated only 81 production days, a 44 % drop over the same period a year...
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from: Stop-Runaway-Production.com — William Faulkner called Mark Twain “the father of American literature” and Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is considered one of the greatest American novels ever written. Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River. Hannibal (which is portrayed by the fictional town of St....
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from: Richard Verrier, LA Times — A few days before filmmakers for the hit Fox TV series “House” were set to shoot a prison scene at a former boys correctional facility, the show’s location manager, Nancy Haecker, got a phone call that made her stomach churn. Deputy State Fire Marshal Al Adams informed her that he could not clear the way for the July shoot...
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