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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Always look for the union label.
The one thing you don’t want from a fluffer is a scab.
Progressives admit tax breaks help business.
“Always look for the union label. The one thing you don’t want from a fluffer is a scab.”
Oh I owe you one! My evening coffee is all over my keyboard! This is such nonsense. It’s almost as bad as the government “ subsidizing” (read buying) sports facilities. It’s all just government welfare, to keep the dumb schmuck LIV’s placated.
Try cutting taxes and making the business climate more friendly.
“Los Angeles’ new mayor has vowed to help stanch the flow of film and TV production jobs out of Hollywood”
I assume he must be proposing a wall around Hollywood to keep them in, because heaven knows he won’t advocate tax breaks or non-union production. A wall is the only other feasible solution.
Good idea.
I'd like to see them set up a blue-ribbon commission to study the problem.
The irony is almost too much to bear-liberal elitists ruin California, then leave. Time to re-think a quarantine...
The irony is almost too much to bear-liberal elitists ruin California, then leave. Time to re-think a quarantine...
I will have to keep an eye on that me being in SC. Granted I changed careers to something that paid from TV, I still enjoyed the hands on stuff I did and have helped on an indie film.
I’ve been amazed at all that is going on. The old Western Electric / AT&T / Lucent cable plant, now owned by OFS, is being redeveloped as a giant sound stage facility with a DOZEN. stages.
http://www.gpb.org/blogs/georgia-works/2013/04/25/major-movie-studios-for-gwinnett
The entertainment industry is a major source of jobs for gay men, and a major source of Democrat campaign contributions.
THAT makes it an emergency!
Probably a product of California.....
Let’s hear it Nelson!: HA ha!
Thank you Nelson.
The film industry in GA has gone from zero to being huge in just 5 years. Article tell how it happened.
http://clatl.com/atlanta/georgias-blank-check-to-hollywood/Content?oid=8657171&storyPage=1
Only problem is they are coming to Atlanta and trying to turn Georgia into the hellhole they just left.
Big Hollywood should pay their fair share
Quick! Raise taxes!
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