from: Nick Goundry, The Location Guide — Filmmaker Michael Bay helped secure two active-duty US Navy destroyers for the filming of miniseriesThe Last Ship. Bay’s first TV production as a producer focuses on a Navy crew struggling to find a cure to a deadly virus that has wiped out most of the world’s population. Guided missile destroyers the USS Halsey and the...
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Assembly Bill 1839 (Gatto/Bocanegra), the California Film and Television Job Retention and Promotion Act, recently cleared the California State Assembly. Although there’s still more work to be done, this landmark piece of legislation promises to make California competitive again for new film and television projects and associated jobs. Write a Letter to Support AB...
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from: Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times — At a small community park in Santa Monica, a group of Los Angeles-area musicians wearing dark blue and orange T-shirts with the slogan “Listen Up!” gathered around a flatbed truck as union leaders, a minister and a local city councilman fired up the crowd. “Make no mistake, music that we produce is a...
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from: Dave McNary, Variety.com — Danny Glover is leading a Saturday rally to support improving California’s film-TV tax credit at San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel. The 10 a.m. rally — a first for Northern California — will also include appearances by The Meehan Bros. from “Last Comic Standing”; San Francisco Film Commission exec director Susannah Greason...
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FILM L.A. PRODUCTION ALERT — The Los Angeles County Fire Department has informed FilmL.A. that July 1, 2014 will bring an increase in hourly fees for Fire Safety Advisors (FSAs). The revised fee schedule for Fire Safety Advisors (FSAs) is as follows: Fire Safety Advisor (retired) Rate: up to 8 hours $45.92 an...
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from: Dyana Carmella, P3update.com — Leading the discussion was PGA President Hawk Koch who asked Coppola the question everyone wanted to know: “How does an aspiring artist bridge the gap between art and commerce, and as an emerging artist either going to film school or out of film school and wanting to be a producer/director, what is one thing you can tell...
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