from: Bianca Barragan, Curbed Los Angeles — The 1923 Vista Theatre in Los Feliz is an old theater success story. Marketplace takes a (brief) look at the movie hall’s long, colorful past, condensing all the good stuff into about two minutes, from the first film ever screened at the theater to restoration details. Explaining its Egyptian-influenced interior...
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from: Thea Green, P3update.com — Location Scout Nick Carr, who has worked on everything from The Smurfs to The Wolf of Wall Street, knows the real New York is not the one always depicted in movies. In fact, many of the locations that he’s asked to find are places created by movies that do not actually exist within the city. In a recent article he wrote for The...
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from: Nick Goundry, The Location Guide — A spinoff of hugely successful zombie drama The Walking Dead is filming in Vancouver, doubling the Canadian city for Los Angeles. Fear the Walking Dead is a companion series set in California and follows a new set of characters during the initial onset of the zombie apocalypse. The pilot was in fact filmed in Los Angeles...
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Effective immediately, The City of Hawthorne has established FilmL.A as the film permit coordinator for the area. FilmL.A. will now accept applications for permits to film anywhere within Hawthorne’s 6.1 mile city limits. Known as the City of Good Neighbors, Hawthorne is also home to some unique filming locations. The closed Hawthorne Mall and Robert F. Kennedy Hospital...
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from: Dave McNary, Variety.com — California’s sweetened film and TV tax credit program has drawn applications from 31 new TV projects and six current TV series seeking to relocate to the Golden State. The first round of applications for the expanded program came in last week and was open only to projects scheduled to begin production on or after July 1. The...
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FILMLA PRODUCTION ALERT Summer is nearly upon us, bringing the return of filming restrictions for L.A. County Beaches. All Los Angeles County Beaches will be off-limits for weekend filming beginning this Saturday, May 16th through Sunday, September 6th. This year the Department of Beaches and Harbors has also announced that no beach filming may take place on Friday, May...
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