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TV Production Takes Another Big Hit Says FilmL.A.

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday July 3, 2012 @ 4:26pm PDTTags: California Production Tax Incentives, Film Production, FilmL.A.

California’s lack of strong tax incentives is killing TV production in Los Angeles said FilmL.A. today. “For many years, we’ve relied on Television to backfill the hole left by the flight of feature film production from the L.A. region. Television has been our bread and butter, but with Sacramento’s inaction to stem our losses, other states and countries are eating off our plate,” claims the non-profit permitting group’s president Paul Audley. The statement came as the organization released a mixed second quarter report Tuesday. It also comes less than a week after the $100 million annual state incentive inched its way towards a two year extension in the Legislature. Off lot television production days in Los Angeles were down 15.4% this quarter, FilmL.A found. Last quarter the drop was 9%. The biggest drop was among Drama, which was down 39.2% from last year to 581 days, and Reality, which fell 16.8% from the same quarter last year to 1,461 days. At the same time the organization also says that production for Sitcoms was up 35.6% and TV pilots were up 36.8% to 253 days. The latter in no small part thanks to a late start to pilot season this year. Features were also actually up 9.1% for the quarter and commercials were up an impressive 28.1%. Of course, as indicative as those numbers appear, they have to be put into context. FilmL.A. does not count production done on soundstages for which no permits are required. In general, FilmL.A. says that overall on-location production took a dip of 0.4% from the same quarter last year.

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LA Location Shooting Grows 4% In 2011, No Thanks To Disappearing TV Dramas

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday January 3, 2012 @ 2:38pm PSTTags: California Film & Television Tax Credit Program, FilmL.A., The Dark Knight Rises

On-location shooting in Los Angeles and other local jurisdictions grew 4.2% year-over-year in 2011, permit coordinator FilmL.A. announced today. The bump came despite what the nonprofit organization called a “disconcerting trend” in TV production: a 2.7% annual drop in the … Read More »

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Latest Push From Industry Anti-Piracy Group Creative America Includes PSA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 12:21pm PDTTags: AFL-CIO, Creative America, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, FilmL.A., National Association Of Theatre Owners, NATO, NBCUniversal, PGA, Producers Guild of America, PSA

Hollywood Unites Against Content Theft Via New Coalition

Creative America, the coalition formed by labor unions, guilds, studios and networks that launched in July, said today that it has kicked off awareness campaign as well as a redesigned website. The group also said the AFL-CIO, the Association of Talent Agents, … Read More »

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L.A. On-Location Filming Up 15% In 3Q

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday October 4, 2011 @ 1:51pm PDTTags: Argo, Film Production, FilmL.A., Gangster Squad, Savages, Think Like A Man, TV Production

On-location filming in Los Angeles increased by 15.4% year-over-year during the third quarter, helped in part by eight feature film shoots in the region that were supported by the California Film & Television Tax Credit. The films — which include … Read More »

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