from: FilmWorksLA.com — In 2009, California enacted a Film & Television Tax Credit program to help defend the state from runaway production. Guess what happened next? In 2010, the decline in on-location feature filming in L.A. increased after four straight years of decline. Feature film (movie) production days were still down 62% from their high in 1996...
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from: SHOOTonline.com — “More and more advertisers are interested in taking advantage of it,” said Mark Androw of Chicago-headquartered production house STORY, which also maintains offices in New York and Santa Monica. The “it” Androw refers to is the Illinois Film Production Tax Credit Act which offers a 30 percent transferable tax credit...
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from: SHOOTonline.com — Directorial roster includes Seth Gordon, Jared Hess, Michael Patrick Jann, Matt Smukler, and Pam Thomas Executive producers Carl Swan and Lizzie Schwartz have teamed to launch Community Films. The new venture opens with a directorial roster consisting of Seth Gordon, Jared Hess, Michael Patrick Jann, Matt Smukler and Pam Thomas. Swan and...
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LOS ANGELES – September 20, 2012 – Today, officials with the County of Los Angeles provided FilmL.A. with a redacted copy of County film permit #F00043012, for the feature film project “Desert Warriors”. The County has asked FilmL.A. to distribute the permit to all parties with an interest in viewing the document. The permit accompanies this brief...
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from: Dave McNary, Variety.com — Study says film incentive is starting to reverse downward trend As Gov. Jerry Brown considers whether to extend California’s 3-year-old incentive program, a report from payroll accounting firm Entertainment Partners has concluded that the state has lost 90,000 showbiz jobs and $3 billion in wages between 2004 and 2011 as a...
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from: Deadline.com — Looks like Hollywood’s TV execs are about to get pitched — by California. The state is one of only a few moving ahead with implementing an insurance exchange as mandated by President Obama‘s controversial health-care reform law — aka Obamacare — that recently passed Supreme Court muster. The New York Times reports California’s...
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