from: Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti achieved one of his top goals last year when he helped persuade state lawmakers to boost California’s film and TV tax credits. Now Garcetti and his film czar, entertainment industry attorney Ken Ziffren, face the tough task of persuading studios to use the program they lobbied so hard...
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This upcoming weekend, Hollywood will host the 87th Academy Awards. Please be advised that a series of road and sidewalk closures will be in effect, the first of which began Sunday, February 15th. Closures will affect all lanes of traffic on Hollywood Boulevard between Highland Avenue and Orange Drive. Roads will remain closed until Tuesday, February 24th 2015 at 6...
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from: Nick Goundry, The Location Guide — The California Film Commission has approved an initial set of rules on how to issue the state’s new filming incentives that come into effect this summer. Specific details include penalties for productions that fail to create as many jobs as initially intended. California’s expanded filming incentive programme was signed...
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from: Nick Goundry, The Location Guide — Planned spending figures from the California Film Commission reveal that TV production will be prioritised under the state’s boosted filming incentive. State authorities are more than tripling the annual film fund and expanding support to big-budget movies and TV shoots. While the overall film fund is being massively...
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from: Nick Goundry, The Location Guide — A state lawmaker is pushing to cancel Michigan’s filming incentive by the end of 2015. Detroit recently hosted the upcoming superhero movie Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice but a state Representative wants to redirect the film fund elsewhere in the regional economy. Michigan offers a base 25% filming incentive and only...
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When hunting for shoot locations, producers are focused on several key elements, such as landscape, infrastructure, crew and travel/lodging logistics, but the biggest factor always revolves around the bottom line. Just as producers are keenly aware of the budget for their film, TV, animation and new media projects, film commissions around the world are striving to offer...
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