oh yeah, ANOTHER taxpayer funded moneyhole of a job, that should solve EVERYTHING!!!
Posted on 08/26/2013 6:26:34 PM PDT by Nachum
Los Angeles’ new mayor has vowed to help stanch the flow of film and TV production jobs out of Hollywood, starting with the appointment of a film czar at City Hall. But to make a real difference, Eric Garcetti needs to convince skeptical state pols to combat the lure of rich tax incentives from outside California.
Two days after this year’s Oscars, Hollywood’s councilman Eric Garcetti, then running for mayor of Los Angeles, staged a media event at Sunset Gower Studios.
Only a smattering of reporters and photographers showed up, perhaps because the gathering was to address “runaway production,” a buzzword that means little for those outside the industry and, for insiders, is a timeworn term for a chronic, unresolved problem alongside piracy and studio accounting.
But Garcetti, a series of location managers and other crew workers who spoke in late February tried convey a message of urgency: Hollywood’s homegrown industry is being ceded to other states and countries whose favorable tax credits are increasingly luring away movie and television production at an alarming rate. As competition both in the U.S. and abroad continues to grow, the state’s market share and longtime stronghold on production jobs and spending are fast evaporating.
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O-kaaaay... true enough proverb. But sorta odd for an around-the-neck chest tat.
I have to wonder what possessed the fellow to get that particular tat... maybe some gruesome mistake earlier in life that he wants to remember as a life lesson... but every time he looks in the mirror.... it's backwards.
gone to Texas????
oh yeah, ANOTHER taxpayer funded moneyhole of a job, that should solve EVERYTHING!!!
Hollywood must pay their fair share.
....and the band played on.
Which President was the first to hire someone to do a job the government was already doing, and called it a czar position?
I ask, because, the term itself is like a poke in the eye to anyone with a decent knowledge of history.
100%... Ball of Confusion, And the Band Played On
You read my mind. The millinaires and billionaires of Hollywood will take their marbles and go elsewhere if they don’t receive more tax breaks (and they already get federal subsidies). But the middle-class workers can either like higher taxes, or lump it. (Or, what California seems to not care about, the middle-class can increasingly move to states where their productivity is appreciated and rewarded. Then only the Hollywood limosuine liberals will be left to pay for all the “entitlements” they tried to foist off on the middle-class).
It’s interesting how the entitlement receiving “poor” and the very rich seem to have converging politics-soak the middle-class. They don’t seem to consider that that middle class can take themselves, their due taxes, and small businesses to states where they are welcomed.
I hope he does convince them to stay, because they will only do to other states what they’ve done to Colorado if they go elsewhere.
Most of the new movies are nothing more than video games needing a fraction of set costs as it’s replicated code.
A major cause of this problem is not what you might expect. The film industry is hopelessly intertwined with the *adult* film industry.
“Los Angeles County last year (2012) passed a law requiring porn actors to wear condoms during movie shoots.” A judge has just upheld that law.
Because their audience does not *want* to see porn with condoms, this effectively was an “expulsion order” for the porn industry to leave Los Angeles. So with little fanfare, they are leaving.
However, about that “intertwining”... All sorts of things in the technical side of the movie industries are shared. All those people on the periphery of the industry can only get enough work to survive with *both* the mainstream and the porn industries to give them work.
Tax Elesium.
You are correct in your assessment, but the Russian royal family were the Romanovs or Romanoffs - no apostrophe before the S.
I’m surprised there are movies still being made, I haven’t been to a movie in years.....too expensive and they will show up on Netflix in a few monthws.
Never got a call for Transformer 4.
Maybe if they leave that cesspool called Hollywood, they might make some quality movies with actual plots that have to do with real life compelling situations and moral story lines.
Well, one can dream, anyway.
Well, the filmmakers probably have very few hurdles to clear with Detroit. And instead of paying union-scale stuntmen as bad-guys, they can use real thugs.
If they freak out, the good guys can just shoot em...on camera. Who would care?
“All those people on the periphery of the industry can only get enough work to survive with *both* the mainstream and the porn industries to give them work.”
You mean they use “fluff girls” in mainstream movies too? The “fluff girls” union is going to have an “uprising” about all of this!
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