With Good Reason! Film, TV Production Leaving Hollywood

I was born in LA. It was once a great, beautiful place. Now it like a fat, smelly, ugly, old whore-madam who demands a fee from everyone FOR NOTHING. m/r

Eric Garcetti: Mayor Help Slow Film, TV Production Leaving Hollywood | Variety
AUGUST 26, 2013 

Ted Johnson

... 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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“I am starting to see people who have never made a feature film in Los Angeles,” Chris Baugh, location manager for Oscar winner “Argo,” which actually shot in L.A., told the small group outside a soundstage. “In fact, they are afraid to. They are concerned that it is too expensive and too difficult.” ...

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