from: Nick Goundry, The Location Guide — Florida’s production industry is concerned about the state’s lack of big-budget Hollywood appeal since the latest efforts to boost the filming incentive failed last week. Movies like Dolphin Tale and its sequel have been successes but Florida’s filmmaking future is uncertain. For the past couple of years Florida has...
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from: Hadley Meares, Curbed LA — On May 14, 1935, Los Angeles was abuzz. For months, motorists on Los Feliz Boulevard had “glanced up at the pile of masonry that loomed larger and larger, day by day” on the slope of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park and wondered when it would be finished. So great was the curiosity surrounding the domed structure,...
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from: Nick Goundry, The Location Guide — Alaska has cancelled its filming incentive programme and will redirect the funds elsewhere in the economy. For the past few years the state has offered a base 30% filming tax credit that specifically rewarded productions shooting in remote areas at certain times of year. Warning signs for the filming incentive came in...
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from: Jonathan Kandell, New York Times — Kirk Kerkorian, the media-shy investor who became one of the richest Americans by betting his money on ventures like casinos and film studios, died Monday night at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 98. Richard E. Sobelle, general counsel of Mr. Kerkorian’s company, the Tracinda Corporation, confirmed the death. Born...
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from: Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times — Venice Beach and Leo Carrillo beach star in Helen Hunt’s movie ‘Ride’ Helen Hunt takes to the waves in her latest movie, “Ride,” a film opening today that reflects her own love of surfing and Southern California’s beaches. Hunt wrote and directed the film, in which she plays an editor...
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from: Nick Goundry, The Location Guide — Los Angeles-Beijing Studios (LABS) has been formed as a way of increasing US production interests in China. Launched by former marketing executive Al Ovadia, the company will be based in Los Angeles with offices in Shanghai, Taipei and Beijing. “Merchandising, franchising and global co-productions – which we call our...
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