LA Production Sees Small Rise In 2012 Despite TV Drama Drop: FilmLA

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• Things will improve. The political preachy projects like “Promised Land” are finally ending. The industry’s on an upswing finally.

  Too many people in Hollywood sold out the industry the last few years, all for politics. Movies tanked, TV shows cancelled at a record rate, and the crippling Writers/SAG (sort of) strike all but sealed all our fates. TV’s never been the same since.

  But now things are better. “Avengers,” “Hunger Games,” many others broke box office records this year, small market comedies did well. More new talent is being developed, all with politics is taking a back seat.

  So yes everyone, things are getting better. In the end, “Promised Land” flopping might end up being a very good thing. It ends the whole “liberal advocacy” genre that’s been killing Film and TV for well over 8 years.

  Many liberals won’t be happy but this is a business, one that employs countless people. It needs high grosses. We tried it their way and it didn’t work. In fact, it practically killed us.

  Comment by Have faith... — Tuesday January 8, 2013 @ 5:10pm PST  Reply to this post

  • The industry is doing really well right now. Both liberals and conservatives are flocking to films like “Lincoln,” “Zero Dark Thirty” “Les Miserables.” That’s what you need. No more one sided liberal vanity projects that don’t make a dime.

    “Avengers” also showed something. Hollywood was supposed to be dying (liberals said it was because of technology, not the films coming out) and then BOOM — Over 200 million in one weekend. ONE WEEKEND.

    It showed how unrealistic liberals had made Hollywood and that it could still thrive in the modern world. You just needed better films.

    Comment by Point of fact — Tuesday January 8, 2013 @ 5:30pm PST  Reply to this post

• Los Angeles is OVER as a base for Motion Pictures. Los Angeles will loose its Knowledge base as the veterans retire and are not replaced

  What is sad is that the the crews in these other states have no movie culture or means of learning the motion picture trades. With out Los Angeles trained “foremen” traveling to the “discount” states the “locals” in those “discount” states could not do the jobs.

  Paint, SPFX, Carpentry, Sculpture, rigging, Labor, ….. All crafts

  This Run-A-Way for government subsidies is decimating Los Angeles as a Film manufacturing town. R.I.P.

  Comment by Run A Way — Tuesday January 8, 2013 @ 6:05pm PST  Reply to this post

  • You are 100 percent right. But take heart, as grosses improve, more and more films will be able to be shot in LA again.

    The main reason films left LA to “tax breaks” in other states was because they couldn’t afford to film in LA otherwise. But that is changing. Films are breaking the 100 million domestic mark more easily again. We don’t have constant film flops every major weekend. Many, many more films are becoming franchises.

    With this upswing will come more production in LA. At the end of the day, the studios want to stay in LA. They don’t want to have to travel to other states unless the script location calls for it.

    So take heart, we’re getting there.

    Comment by Sad, but true — Tuesday January 8, 2013 @ 7:46pm PST  Reply to this post

• Michigan is aggressively pursuing film production. Not. Raleigh bailed on Pontiac. It’s empty. Again. The public employee’s pension fund helped to pay for “Oz, the Great and Powerful.”

  Snyder’s going to turn the state into a prison camp. Lousiana, NC, GA, NY and some others are still chasing production with mixed final tallies of outlay vs. net profit. Infrastructure takes a long time to create.

  Starting around 18:25 in the podcasts below, the awful statistics are cited, LA-based hourlong production, at least, is down by a staggering 70% since 2007.

  Sitcoms, reality, specials and some features are still being made here. How long that lasts is not yet clear.

  Comment by mba — Saturday March 23, 2013 @ 4:18pm PDT  Reply to this post