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Report: California lost $3 billion in film crew wages from 2004 to 2011
California lost $3 billion in wages from 2004 to 2011 because of film and TV production flocking to other states and countries, a new study concludes. Burbank-based Entertainment Partners, the industry’s largest payroll service company, which...
Tags: Credit and Debt, Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times
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Do state film tax credits really help the economy?
As Gov. Jerry Brown mulls whether to sign into law another round of subsidies for local production companies, the question that confronts him is how much each job on a movie set is worth to taxpayers. In Massachusetts, lawmakers recently discovered a...
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Senate votes to extend state film tax credit
The state Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill to continue funding California's film and television tax credit. The Senate vote last week was 32 to 2 in favor of extending two more years of funding for the tax credit. California sets aside $100...
Tags: Credit and Debt, Jerry Brown, Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times
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Schools offer a show-biz shortcut
On a quiet stretch of San Fernando Boulevard, a few blocks south of Downtown Burbank, bright red and black letters on a large poster call attention to a place where students learn as cameras roll. Inside, on a recent Wednesday evening, a small group of...
Tags: Google Inc., Teaching and Learning, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Amusement and Theme Parks, Animation (genre)
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California film tax credit lottery draws only a few lucky winners
Producer Andrew Lazar was all set to shoot an adult romantic comedy in Hermosa Beach, where the story is set. But now, he’s forced to have the $10-million movie rewritten with Miami Beach as the backdrop so he can take advantage of Florida’...
Tags: Lotteries, Miami Beach, Credit and Debt, Andrew Lazar, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida)
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Milken Institute study: Strengths, weakness in California film tax credits
California's film tax credit program has helped to stem the flight of movies and TV shows since it was enacted in 2009, but would be more effective with more funding and fewer restrictions on the types of projects that can qualify, a new study concludes....
Tags: Credit and Debt, Tax Credits, Television, Entertainment, Richard Verrier
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2011 L.A. feature film production edges up, TV dips
Los Angeles continued to lose TV shoots in 2011 to New York, but the area saw a modest increase in feature activity, partly due to the state's film tax credit.
Overall, on-location filming in Los Angeles area rose 4% last year, as a rise in feature...Tags: Organized Crime, Organized Crime, Ben Affleck, Television, Drama (genre)
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Film expo coming to Burbank
The media capital of the world will host the Createasphere Entertainment Technology Expo beginning Wednesday afternoon, bringing industry professionals and educators together while featuring the latest in cutting-edge filmmaking technology. Originally...Tags: Movies, Documentary (genre), Texas, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Entertainment
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State remains in a reel battle
Efforts to stop the years-long flight of film crews from California to faraway locations are gaining steam.
Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Krekorian has proposed new tax incentives to keep production crews filming in his city. The effort follows...Tags: State Budgets, Jennifer Aniston, Economic Policy, Finance, Kevin Smith
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An interesting new genre
Glendale filmmaker Carly Lyn chose the unlikely pairing of genres — Western and science fiction — in her new film "A Foundling."
Lyn, 25, wrote and directed the film receiving its premiere at the Dances with Films festival next week in West...Tags: Genres, Science Fiction (genre), Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Science, Entertainment
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When the film industry drives you to drink, open a wine shop: Domaine L.A.
Jill Bernheimer is the proprietor of the sweet little wine shop Domaine LA. After working many years in the film business for producers and then as an independent producer, she says laughingly, the film business drove her to drink. “Wine was...
Tags: Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking, Wines, Alcoholic Beverages, Rivera
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Sony shares jump as hedge fund urges IPO of entertainment unit
Sony Corp. stock soared in afternoon trading after New York hedge fund Third Point proposed that the electronics and media giant make an initial public stock offering of up to 20% of its entertainment arm. That unit, known as Sony Entertainment Inc.,...
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