from: Dave McNary, Variety.com — The final week of 2012 racked up the slowest activity level of the year in location shooting in Los Angeles as show business closed up shop for the holidays. Offlot shoots totalled 128 days, according to figures disclosed by the FilmL.A. permitting agency, or six more days than the same frame in 2011. The week is typically slow...
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from: Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times — The city-owned park has been a perennial favorite for location scouts. Other sites in the top 10 include Point Dume in Malibu and the 6th Street Bridge near downtown L.A. Griffith Park, Point Dume, the 6th Street Bridge near downtown L.A. and a former community hospital in Boyle Heights reputed to be haunted ranked among...
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from: FilmLA.com — TV Losses Mount as Commercials, Features Regain Lost Ground FilmL.A. — the not-for-profit community benefit organization that coordinates permits for filmed entertainment shot on-location in the City of Los Angeles, unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County and other local jurisdictions — today announced that overall on-location...
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from: Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times — Middle-class taxpayers aren’t the only ones who stand to benefit from the last-ditch deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff. The agreement in Congress also includes something for Hollywood — the extension of a tax break for movies and TV shows that shoot mainly in the U.S. The provision, Section 181 of the...
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from: Richard Verrier and Scott Collins, Los Angeles Times — Workers and industry observers say action-adventure series’ drive for greater risks and lower budgets is putting people at risk. Monica Martino had filmed tornadoes in the Midwest, ship collisions in the Antarctic and crab fishermen in Alaska’s Bering Sea. But those experiences didn’t...
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from: Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times — They donate funds to challenge the legality of the subsidies, which they say hurt U.S. workers and violate international trade agreements. A group of California visual effects artists is mounting a long-shot campaign to dismantle foreign film tax credits, contending that they hurt U.S. workers and violate international...
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