(This is a guest post submitted by Film Works supporter Zack Mandell, a movie enthusiast and owner of www.movieroomreviews.com and writer of movie reviews. He writes extensively about the movie industry for sites such as Gossip Center, Yahoo, NowPublic, and Helium.) California is famous for several reasons. In the last fifty years, the state has spawned two...
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from: P3update.com — Entertainment industry insiders gathered in Hollywood Friday to hash out their most pressing issues and possible opportunities in the first State of the Entertainment Industry Conference. While panels touched on runaway production and piracy and potential threats, the day started off with a reminder of how valuable the entertainment industry is...
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Effective immediately, the City of Los Angeles Risk Management Department is requiring that film production companies use Track4LA®, the City’s online insurance and bonds compliance system, to submit Certificates of Insurance (COI) for approval. Going forward, this will be the only approved method of submission for production insurance certificates for filming at City...
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from: ShootOnline.com — Ten years ago, SHOOT connected with Dana Satterwhite, then an associate creative director at Arnold Worldwide, Boston–not just to discuss his notable copywriting on Volkswagen but his mentoring efforts as part of Spectrum Speakers, a diversity outreach program which at the time had him introducing the ad business to a talented young...
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from: HollywoodReporter.com — The Apple and Android apps with union labor rates join a product lineup that includes print and Windows/Mac versions. Payroll house Media Services released app versions Thursday of its annual Labor Guide, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The apps make available on iPad and Android tablets the contents of the book, a...
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from: P3update.com — With the exodus of film and TV production to foreign shores — and with the states’ incentives plans frequently out-gunned by countries outside the U.S. — there is some thought that it may be time for the federal government to step in. The idea of the federal government helping out Hollywood while it is drowning in red ink is...
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