from: Dominic Patten, Deadline.com — LA Mayor Eric Garcetti today made official what I exclusively revealed Saturday to Deadline readers: Hollywood heavyweight attorney Ken Ziffren will be the head of the City of LA’s Entertainment Industry and Production office. The card-carrying SAG-AFTRA member Garcetti said that Ziffren will be “a powerful leader in our...
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from: Dominic Patten, Deadline.com — Governor Jerry Brown may take moguls’ money for his upcoming re-election campaign, but it looks like he’s not planning on handing out any more cash to keep production in California. Despite improvement in the state’s once-dire financial situation, there was no mention today of any increase to the state’s current $100...
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from: Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times — Southland Lumber & Supply Co., one of the leading suppliers of lumber to the entertainment industry, is shutting down next week after nearly seven decades in business — another casualty of runaway production. The closing of the Inglewood company, founded in 1946, marks the end of an era for one of the...
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from: IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS STAFF — When people think of the entertainment industry, they think of California and the bright lights of “Tinsel Town,” Hollywood’s movie sets and back lots where some of history’s greatest films were made and the Golden Age of television was born. In reality, though, it’s been several years since California was the preferred...
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from: Joel Fox, Fox & Hounds Daily — This evening, the legendary Tonight Show with Jay Leno will have its last hurrah in “Beautiful Downtown Burbank” before packing for New York. Another entertainment show that is leaving Southern California and taking with it about 160 jobs. As Deadline.com reported, when Leno replacement Jimmy Fallon as a guest on the show...
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Bigger-budget studio features, once the mainstay of the Los Angeles film production economy, are no longer filmed in great numbers in the region. With the availability of generous filming incentives in jurisdictions outside California, most big-budget features are now filmed outside the state. As a result, the majority of the feature films FilmL.A. works on are...
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