from: Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Daily News — California’s traditional film and television industry is in flux, facing competition from other states and upstarts like Netflix, leaders said at a show-business conference in Los Angeles Tuesday. Held a block off Hollywood Boulevard’s bustling sidewalks, the one-day State of the Entertainment Industry drew movie...
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from: Ted Johnson, Variey.com — While job growth in the entertainment industry has been on the upswing since 2005, California has actually lost employment while other cities like New York have reaped the gains from increases in production activity. That was one of the conclusions at the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce’s State of the Industry Conference on Tuesday in...
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from: FilmLA eNews — FilmL.A. is pleased to announce the appointment of two new additions to its communications department. Replacing retiring community relations director Geoffrey Smith, community outreach liaisons Arturo Piña and Guy Langman are now charged with growing and implementing FilmL.A.’s neighborhood outreach and education programs. Guy...
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In his first civic event since being named LA’s Film Czar last month,Tom Sherak today said he intends to have a plan to increase production in the city by year’s end. “My job is to get the lions of industry, people I’ve known for years, to come up with a plan that I can take to the mayor and we can take to Sacramento,” he said during a signing ceremony with...
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from: Dawn C. Chmielewski, Los Angeles Times — Amazon Studios is financing three comedy pilots, all with established writers and producers, for its Prime Instant Video streaming service. Amazon Studios has put into production three comedy pilots as the online retail giant deepens its investment in original content for its Prime Instant Video streaming service. The...
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It isn’t the halcyon days of the mid-1990s but production in Los Angeles has had a good 2013 so far. For the third quarter in a row, on-location filming is up over 2012, FilmL.A. said today. There was a 9.5% increase over the same July to September period last year according to a third quarter report the non-profit permitting group released Tuesday. That translates...
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