NY Mayor Touts Big Apple’s TV Business

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• 400 people employed on 1 NYC based TV production? Really? Ridiculous! If so, stay out of NYC. I hate when they lie to make it better for them. The costs associated with just being in NYC for production that don’t exist elsewhere…come on!

  Comment by Lily — Monday August 22, 2011 @ 1:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hey Lily,

  ALL the numbers are always exaggerated to justify the tax incentives and many employed by various locations companies.

  That being said…NYC has done a good job with the incentives…and, many shows now shoot in and around the area.

  Comment by tom — Monday August 22, 2011 @ 1:40pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This is in response to an upstate NY newspaper’s article questioning the program into the real benefit to Movie and TV Tax incentives. A freedom of information filing to reveal the basic audit of funds given in the incentive program was refused claiming that “information revealed would harm the businesses competitive edge”.

  Just as incentives offered in other states, counties outside of the major metro areas are complaining they reap no benefits.

  Warner Bros leads the NY state incentives with over $59million collected from the program with no public audit of funds per the refusal of F.O.I. filings. And no one sees this? Exaggerated? That is the tip. As Deep Throat warned, “Follow the money”.

  Comment by D.Ville Ad VoCate — Monday August 22, 2011 @ 5:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

• And what does this really do for the people of NYC? Clog up many streets, while making the people wait in untold traffic jams for countless hours? Wheres all this money being brought in? The Follyweirdos dont spend it at the local coffee shop or deli-they cater their food in, and eat it in their trailers. They dont shop for clothes around there-they have tailors make whatever wardrobe they need. They are being chauffeured by their personal companies, who shuttle them back and forth on private jets. Once again, Bloomberg-WHAT THE HELL IS ALL THIS PRODUCTION DOING FOR YOUR PEOPLE, YOU FRIGGIN RICH DOOFUS? Just make sure they dont SMOKE on the clean streets, right?

  Comment by brutony — Monday August 22, 2011 @ 7:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Re: Posting # 3–What newspaper ran that story please???
  No shock that they won’t release the data, film commissions
  always
  struggle with transparency issues and public records.
  That newspaper needs to bring a lawsuit pronto.

  Comment by oo7 — Tuesday August 23, 2011 @ 7:07am PDT  Reply to this post

• @Brutony – Most people who work on shoots on New York actually live in New York or its suburbs and spend their money in New York the same way anyone else in New York would spend it. They get to and from their jobs on the film set by using such luxurious, exotic transportation as the MTA subways and the PATH trains.

  While a film is in production, the caterers provide the food, but they just about always get the food from local stores and restaurants. I don’t think any caterers in New York are flying in sandwiches from Los Angeles.

  Comment by A spouse — Tuesday August 23, 2011 @ 8:57am PDT  Reply to this post

• Warner Bros. got $59 million.. okay.. but how much did they spend.. even when you subtract big talent, salaries and perks,who take their cash out of NY… what did W.B. spend?? that is the real question. Ofcourse.. we all look at the numbers with a smerk as the numbers came out of a Hollywood accountants office. (one of the real outlets of Hollywood creativity)..

  Comment by Kelly Britt — Tuesday August 23, 2011 @ 7:09pm PDT  Reply to this post